BFF Birthday

Christine and Dash would like to extend warmest birthday wishes for their BFF Molly the dog. Molly turns a great big 8 today and we celebrated by going about our normal day but ensuring that she got double her usual rations of people food.

Other than celebrating birthdays we been...
Jumping around in our beds...
Enjoying some Sushi...
And "making" new friends.

Adventures in Science

Today Christine, the Dash Man, Ben and I headed off to the Ontario Science Centre for Adventures in Science (cue Dr.Who-type music).

Above you'll Christine suiting up for her first ever space walk - all was well until she ran into some slimy green dudes demanding to see her leader - she quickly pointed to her Dad.Here's the Dash Man hanging out in the little kids area putting lots of public toys in his mouth - hmmmm...germalicious.
Here Christine decided to try out her xylophone skills - love that spout medley!
Here's Dash trying to figure out what wire to cut to deactivate the bomb (aka wire toy thing). Cut the blue one! Not the green one! Nooooooooooooo!
Footnote: cutting the green wire resulted in the Spit-Up function being set off accidentally as well as the toy bomb.
And finally - any guesses on what this is?

Bath Time - A Journey Through Photos

Christine: Alright Dash let's start this bath off right - lets have a big cheer for bath time and all of the lovely P&G products we use to get clean every night.

Dash: Gooooooooooooo bath time. Let's hear it for warm water!

Christine: Hey Dash - you know what Uncle Pat thinks is the funniest thing in the world (after farts of course) - mooning!

Dash: Wow, too bad I'm not allowed to stand in the tub or I'd join you and impress the ladies.

Christine: Well that's the end of our nightly aquatic act, I'd like to thank all our fans for coming to our show.

Dash: Thank you, thank you very much. Try the veal.

Le Guepard's Escapades

Le Guepard (The Cheetah) begins his day by escaping from his jail cell - they haven't built a prison/crib that can contain someone of his stealth and speed.
Le Guepard has caught sight of his first prey - like most criminals he is attracted to shiny objects of immeasurable value - he decides to jump right and grab the elusive Necklace de Nana belonging to the descendant of the house of Charlemange Lady Christine.
Oh no, Le Guepard has been caught red-handed and captured on film none the less.Luckily Lady Christine also possesses great speed and agility and manages to escape Le Guepard's claws by jumping across the coffee table.
To his great shame Le Guepard has failed in his mission to capture the jewels and rule the world. All that is left now to sleep this escapade off - but like any great jewel thief he ensures that he removes trace evidence (his socks) before drifting off to sleep.

Happy Birthday Nana!

Christine and Dash (and Ben and I of course) would like to take this opportunity to Nana a very Happy Birthday today! Here's hoping she has a wonderful day full of birthday wishes (I'm doing my best to get Christine psyched up to wish her Happy Birthday on the phone - even though Christine usually vehemently objects to talking on the phone - I think Molly the Security Officer may have told her that CSIS has our phones tapped or something)
I've got a bunch more shots of Christine this week - if I use reverse psychology on her (by telling her I don't want her picture, only Dash's) I can get her to stay still long enough to capture her on film. So here's a shot of her hamming it up for me before causing some kind of mayhem.
And here's a shot of the Dash Man causing his own personal form of mayhem - cruising around the house hanging on to the furniture while desperately trying to reach anything electronic - our phones, channel changer and especially the computers. Our very own Geek Squad.
And a extra two bonus shots of the kids - Christine hamming again above and Dash cruising and smiling again below as that's how they both spend the majority of the days right now.
And finally a personal big thank you to Christine and Dash's Grandpa and Grandma for helping us with some emergency babysitting last night - even though the kids didn't even know you were here we all very much appreciate it :)

Hello New Year, Goodbye Nana and Papa

Well now that we are well into the new year I finally have a chance to catch you all up with what we've been up to. After much partying, playing and visiting with Nana and Papa during their visit with us we had to wish them goodbye on Thursday morning. Although we were sad to see them go we are all looking forward to another visit hopefully this summer.

While my parents were here we went to Georgetown to visit with our dear friend Doris, along with Uncle Geof and Aunt Brenda. As usual we had a great time and managed to get all the ladies to sit still long enough for a photo - above from left to right is me, Doris, Nana (my Mom Gloria), Brenda and of course Christine.

The men were not made to sit for a photo shoot but I managed to capture this shot of the Dash Man and his Uncle Geof, I can only hope Geof was saying good things about me to my guy.

And other than that we've been hanging out with our friends the Sullivans, playdating with Maja, enjoying some free babysitting (courtesy of Aunt Boo and company) and trying to keep up with Dash. He's become incredibly fast at "cruising" around furniture, can walk while holding onto Christine's car and has joined a tricycle gang called the "Hell's Toddlers". Okay in all honesty he fell off the bike seconds after this picture was taken (it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact I was too busy taking pictures to properly supervise him)

PS - you may notice a lack of Christine photos - this is due to the fact that she has not been cooperative of late with our photo shoots - mea culpa, mea culpa.