Happy Third Birthday Heather

The Cinderella and Prince party.
We had tiara and shield crafts,a little creativity for the parents!!!! Pass the parcel with wands and inflatable swords, a new and frustrating concept for a group of 3 year olds!! Pin the tiara on the princess, another new and delicate concept. Cake and balloons, which are always a treat and a success.

A Day At The Funny Farm.

The obsession with poop continues....

After our fun day at the dragon boat festival and learning all about different kinds of animal poop, it seems that Heather's fascination with poop continues.
While we were relaxing one afternoon in Central park in Banff, listening to some big band music in the band stand, Heather was happily dancing away. The park had been freshly divotted or pronged to aireate the grass . These divots look alot like goose poop, but heather knows this. While dancing happily she stopped in her tracks, something caught Heather's eye, and apparently it wasn't a grass divot. Our observant girl had found the piece of Elk poop in amongst all the grass divots and she knew it was definitely poop of some animal.....to her mummy's apparent distaste !!!!!

Gone Fishin'

We spent a great weekend with our friends and the kids tried to go fishing...unfortunately there were no fish caught, only lots of gravel. So no fish to cook on the fire that night. However we had a great camp fire and the kids enjoyed the outdoors and the water.

Dragon Boat festival

Last weekend was the Dragon boat festival at Lake Miniwanka in Banff. However the main interest for heather was, again, the face painting. This time she wanted a dinosaur.

The were also other stalls of interest and Heather thoroughly enjoyed learning about the local wild life.

She held antlers and horns.

Came claw to claw with a bear paw.

and had great interest in the bear skull with the big sharp teeth.

There was also lots of fake poop to see and she kept bringing it to me and asking which animal the poop was from.

Back to work

So another year on and now I am back to work. We are all another year older, another year wiser, drank a little bit more, slept a little bit less and have been closer to insanity and back than ever before. We have learned to put many things into perspective, learned how to let things go and learned a whole lot about patience and laugh and smile in times of desperation...... as long as we get through the day. However we have smiled through it all and shared many laughs, lots of love, thousands of moments of joy and shared many hugs and slobbery kisses.

No job in the world can teach you the things that you learn as a parent and no job in the world gives you so much reward and warmth in your heart.

A good day at work still doesn't add up to a rough day at home.

Double trouble !!!!

What are little boys made of ? What are little boys made of ?
What are little girls made of ? What are little girls made of ?

Frogs....
Sugar...

....and snails
....and spice

...and puppy dogs tails....
...and all things nice...

That's what little boys are made from.
That's what little girls are made of.

However don't let pictures fool you!!!!!