Day 4 {Blueberry mess}

This was the day for missed photos.  I really should have gotten some pictures but by 9 am I was fuming and it lasted ALL day!  I came down to half a jar of blueberry all over my carpet.  A new rule was set that the boys have to stay in their room til I come downstairs in the morning ( they actually listened and did it this morning with the threat of locking them in if they don't!  LOL)  So I started my morning out cleaning jam from the carpet, floors , Tyler's feet and everywhere else.    Then I made the mistake of leaving my SD card in the card reader and found it on the floor 20 minutes later in three pieces.  An hour after that Dylan was sent to his room for biting Xander on the arm, something that started a few weeks ago and has progressively gotten worse. Total times he was sent to his room for biting that day?  4    So I was having a great day and wasn't really thinking about taking pictures of my misbehaving children.

So at 4:00 I realized I hadn't taken a picture yet and decided to head outside to the cold. I usually don't like to go outside with my camera since It's so COLD but it was only -14 c so I took my chance and bundled up.  I decided to get creative  (well as creative as I can be) and take some pictures of the frost on the trees.  I guess I have a bit of work to do when it comes to taking pictures of anything other than my kids but isn't that what this project is for?

Day3 { oh the blood}

It was an interesting day here in the Frappier household.  I discovered the night before that Ty was finally starting to cut one of his eye teeth and it was very purple and swollen.  I didn't really think much of it until the next day when Xander came into the kitchen screaming that Ty was bleeding!  So I run into the living room to find Ty with red all over his hands and belly.  I had no idea what is was and thought for a minute maybe he got his hands on the boys red paint since he wasn't crying or looking like he was in pain.  Then I remembered the tooth.......sure enough it had broke through and the purple on his gum was gone and a little tooth had appeared.  That explained the blood with out any tears :)


A few hours later I was sitting here and Ty suddenly started screaming......he had been playing with the boys and tried to climb on a chair and fell.  This time there was more more blood but it was accompanied by tears this time.  The poor kid had bit his lip and tongue and was once again bleeding from his mouth.  Nothing too serious or deep but that was an awful amount of blood for one day from one poor little kids mouth!  Here he is that night no worse for wear just a few little tooth marks in his bottom lip.

Day 2 {Day of Crafts}

The boys got a tonne of art supplies for Christmas and today Xander wanted to make the mosaic that Aunt Kelly gave him.  He had to take magic model clay and fill all the little squares up.  This literally took him ALL day!

 
 But he took his time and finished it by the time Bill got home from work that night, with just a little help from mom.  It is now proudly hanging in his bedroom :)

Day 1{Happy New year}

I am going to start a Project 365.  The goal.....take at least one picture everyday for an entire year!   I have no idea if I will find the time to actually do this but I will give it a try.  I am hoping that this will help me improve my skills and force me  to take pictures with some new angles and not just the kids :)


So here we go Day 1,  New Years Day.  After a long trip home New Years Eve and 8 hours in the van with two of the three children constantly fighting we headed out to Bill's parents house for New Years Day dinner.  The kids were cranky and tired after a long trip the day before, Dylan got there opened his Christmas presents from Nana and Papa and immediately fell asleep for the rest of the night without eating any dinner.

My picture for the day is of Xander and his cousin Holly.  They had lots of good play time since Dylan was sound asleep! 

Christmas Card pictures

I took the boys out to the bush today to try to get some pictures to use on our Christmas card. Dylan and Xander did really well but OMG is it ever hard to get a good picture of Ty. He just doesn't stop moving! Facebook refuses to let me upload them for some reason so I will put them all here. These are the pictures that didn't make the cut for the card, you'll just have to wait till Christmas for the other ones!




Thanks for looking :)

The wait is over

Xander finally got his Nintendo DS last Friday after waiting for months! He was not getting it till he was accident free for over a month. If you know me at all you know this has been something we have been fighting with for years with him. Any slight milk product and he ends up going in his pants. Well he finally got it under control with a little bribery on our part. But hey, you do what you have to do. Right?

Well we drove an hour to Walmart Friday and let me pick his DS out ( not that there was much choice since they only had one in stock) Who new the new fancy Nintendos don't come with games? So we had to buy him 2 games as well, thank goodness for the walmart bargain game bin! So he comes out of the store with a shiny new red DS lite. Lego Batman and Ben 10 for games, and a starter kit that comes with a case, extra styluses, car charger ( need that!) and screen protectors. I don't think bribery has ever cost me so much! But it worked and has continued working so I guess that makes up for it.

The next day Xander pulls out his DS and was not impressed that the battery needed to charge. So he waits three hours for it to charge and plays it for less than hour before he loses one of the games! Did I forget to mention he lost a stylus pen in the van on the way home the night before as well? Needless to say I was not impressed. Now it wasn't really his fault he has the extra game in his case and it fell out somewhere, but I was still mad that they make those things so small that they can be so easily lost!

That brings us to today. I take the kids to the bus and as I am walking back down the driveway what do I see? A small black case with a Ben 10 game in it! I don't know if it works, it was in a case but it was snowed on three times since Saturday. I am letting it warm up and will try it later but at least the case of the missing game is solved! That would explain why when I scoured the house and turned it upside down looking or it all weekend I couldn't find it. Oh and the missing Stylus pen was found on the floor of the van too!

Here is Xander chillin out on the couch with Hooch playing his new toy. And note the earphones? Those are to save what little of my sanity I have left!

Time for an update!

It has been a LONG time since I updated this blog. I am terrible at writing about my life and its just so much easier to put everything on Facebook. But I have decided to try and keep it updated a little more. Its not the easiest thing to do since any pictures have to be uploaded to Photobucket then transferred over to here which on dial up takes a LONG time. In other words don't expect a blog every night. LOL

Not much happens around here since the boys are in school all day, Bill is working crazy overtime right now and its just Ty and I at home all day. I am trying to get myself to take some more pictures so I can get some more practice with my camera. So there may be some weird things show up on here, but hey, I'm leaning!

My pictures today are of Tyler who has turned into a little monkey. he will climb anything and everything. I seriously don't remember the other boys climbing quite this much. Ty climbs over the baby gate, out of his crib, on the table, into boxes, bookshelves, furniture and window sills!

He started out quite happily looking out the window which he can easily get to by standing on the couch.



Then he got brave and thought he would get a better veiw if he got right into the window.




You will never guess what happened next........




He fell....don't worry he landed on the couch :) And then I got this look.


This would be the "Why are you still taking my picture instead of sucking me up " look!

He was fine but still proceeded to climb everything in site. Apparently at 19 months the lesson goes unlearned.