Spending March Break 2011 in Winnipeg

A Busy Week for the Tooth Fairy!

This past Monday, we picked up our Big Girl from her caregivers (Before & After School Care) and were told that she had gone to the bathroom and came out with a tooth in her hand.

No tears, just a big smile as always!

That night, she left her tooth on her dresser and found out that the Tooth Fairy had visited her room that night because in place of her tooth was a big shiny Toonie!

Tuesday night, during soccer at the Y, we noticed that our Big Girl was playing with another tooth that she said was loose. At 1:30 am we woke up to our Big Girl saying "Mom, Mom!" from the bathroom. Since I don't respond too well in the middle of the night (and since I wasn't actually the one being called), I didn't actually get up to see what the matter was. Apparently, our Big Girl was in the bathroom with another tooth in her hand and a Big smile on her face.

Again, the tooth was left on her dresser that evening and when our Big Girl woke up there was $1.50 on her dresser!

A Disney Surprise

For all of you that think that South-Western Ontario doesn't get any snow, take a look at these pictures. The first one was taken from our front porch on Friday. It snowed quite a bit Saturday night, so at the moment there's actually more snow outside than this!

Downtown London, Ontario in front of the John Labatt Centre (JLC)

Check out the piles of snow!!

When our girls woke up, we told them that we had a surprise for them if they were good all day and if they had a nap at some point during the day. Well, they were good (actually cooperating together) and yes, they did have a nap. We finally told them at dinner time that we were going to see Disney On Ice that evening. This was definitely money well spent and a very nice preview of our vacation to Disney World this summer
Mickey and the Gang

Of course we bought each girl a $10 bucket of popcorn (plastic take home bucket with lid that says Disney and has Mickey, etc all over it) and a $10 Flounder (from Little Mermaid) cup Slush Drink.

Both girls were excited to see Ariel skating with Prince Eric!

Peter Pan and Captain Hook right before the alligator (background) eats the Captain.

Throughout the show there were skating segments based on Little Mermaid, Lilo & Stitch, Peter Pan & The Lion King. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Goofy introduced each segment. The entire show ran approximately 1 1/2 hour which included a 10 minute intermission.

Today, we spent the morning playing in the snow in the backyard and then after lunch we all had a nice nap. This made for a fun and relaxing Sunday at home!

Chrirstmas Eve, Morning and New Year's Eve 2010

Well, here we go, I've FINALLY posted new pictures.

December 24, 2010 - Morning and Early Afternoon

Here are the girls eating candy from the gingerbread house the had just finished 'building'.

They said the candy was "yummy" but the gingerbread was "ewe gross!" (It was a bit stale)

Just to make sure Santa did visit, we posted the official 'stop sign' for Santa in our window.

December 24, 2010 - Christmas Eve

With what is sure to become a Christmas tradition -

we attended the Second Annual Christmas Eve Pajama Service

(Sorry no pictures of Daddy in his jammies since he's the one taking the pictures :P !)

After Church, we went to Gramma and Grampas house for supper.

Santa even made an appearance. (a very quick "drive-by!")

The girls got to listen to "Twas the Night Before Christmas..."

...then it was home to bed. Our Little Girl passed out during the drive home so we put her right to bed, but our Big Girl had a bit of trouble getting to sleep. She helped put milk and cookies by the fireplace for Santa and even a few carrots out for Rudolph.

December 25, 2010 - Christmas Morning

Our Little Girl was the first one up and she didn't want to go downstairs yet. She actually
cuddled with us in bed and waiting until her sister woke up.

We all went downstairs together to discover that Santa had visted us

and "he left us lots of stuff!"

There wasn't a hallway gate to block them this year, but both girls actually WAITED until Gramma, Grampa and Auntie came over to open all of their presents (including stockings!)

Yes Mom I found my Figment hat, guess who loves it now?

December 31, 2010 - New Year's Eve

We had great friends come spend the evening with us for supper and Wii gaming.

Here both girls and a friend try out a Wii game.

Some of us tried dancing. Our Little Girl is "wiggling her booty!"

(Her exact words)

All four kids were pretty tuckered out by about 10 pm. Although, a couple of them tried their hardest to stay up with the adults.

So that's it, another year gone by! Good night!

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