4 a Lifetime of Loving: January 2014

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Making a Bigger and Better Train Table

Mr. Man purchased a 4x8 piece of plain MDF board and started using our track and building that we purcahsed off of Kijiji to make a track for the Little Sprouts!

Then a nice coat of primer, a couple of bottles of acrylic craft paint and a the watchful eye of G-Man

we accomplished this...

Mr. Man screwed down the outer track so that B-Man couldn't pull the track off the table.

Now our Little Sprouts spend hours and hours each day pushing their trains along the track, picking up cargo and filling up with water at the station.

Worth the Kijiji Thomas Track purchase, the $20 MDF board and the $5 of acrylic craft paint thousands of times over.

B-Man is ONE

A year really goes by fast! In the end of December our premie who was 6.2 weeks early turned ONE! He has definitely done very well! We are beyond thankful to our Heavenly Father who blessed him with health and great growth!
At 1 year B-Man is

wearing 18-24 month clothing and some 2year sleepers!
climbing up the flights of stairs almost as fast as his big brother G-Man.
strongly dislikes being left behind!
is a through and through Daddy's boy!
has beautiful long eye lashes and big blue eyes (which every older lady at the store likes to comment on!)
has become shy - but will warm up to you and smile
LOVES to kiss!
weighs 26lbs and is 30 inches long!
has had 4 hair cuts
favourite words are "UH-O" and "HIDE"
best friend is G-Man - but BOYS will be BOYS!
is loved.

Our Christmas

We celebrated our Christmas on the Morning of Chirstmas Eve.

B-Man once again enjoyed playing with his wrapping paper rather than this gift.

G-Man loved his Cranky and motorized James.

After they finished opening their gifts, we packed them up and headed to the shopping area and picked up some items to make them a bigger train table so there would be no space disagreements :)

Christmas with Gramps and Nana

The weekend before Christmas (and the weekend of the horrible ice storm!) we celebrated Christmas with Gramps, Nana, my siblings and their families.

As usual, our children were spoiled with cousin time, grandparent time, and gifts.

Nana helped B-Man open his gifts but he was more intent on chewing on his old toys.

"LOOK DADDY! WOW CARS!"

We had a wonderful dinner, which was unfortunately cut short by the weather.

Thanks Dad & Mom for hosting a wonderful family Christmas!

Thursday, January 16, 2014

G-Man's snowman - a couple weeks ago...

G-Man LOVES to play outside and loves to paint. So, we put B-man down for his afternoon nap and headed outside to enjoy the packing snow. G-Man helped roll the snowman's SMALL - MEDIUM & LARGE balls and then helped make him come to life!