Sunday, March 01, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Ned Sleeps for Two Months
Yaaawwwn...
What, is it March already?
Wow.
Anyone still visiting this blahg? Amanda... haven't given up yet?
Well, let me think on what has been happening...
Simon needs all of his friends in his bed with him (Mimi the boy bear, Kitty-Cat, Camel, Ernie, Giraffe and Tad). He still doesn't say sorry to anyone no matter how hard he throws things but we did get a very sincere apology from Kitty-Cat to Elliot when Simon through a rubber puck down a flight of stairs and it hit Elliot in the head. We take what we can get...
He often puts himself to bed. A couple of days ago he was playing lego with his mom in the evening when he suddenly went to our living room bookshelf, grabbed a book and his water and starting heading up stairs. I could hardly keep up but ending up meeting him in his room. He is the easiest kid to put to bed of all two of our kids. Even more so than Elliot.
Simon hasn't many friends his own age but loves playing with Elliot's friends and calls them his friends too. He really enjoys going to Elliot's school and playing with the kids there when Mom is the parent helper.
Elliot is doing really well at school, where they are learning letters and just went through a month of learning about dinasours. He really enjoyed that and has decided he wants to be a
Paleontologist, though at dinner tonight he decided he wants to be a teacher and a dad.
Elliot is eating a lot better at dinners now which makes dinner, in general, a more pleasing affair.
What, is it March already?
Wow.
Anyone still visiting this blahg? Amanda... haven't given up yet?
Well, let me think on what has been happening...
Simon needs all of his friends in his bed with him (Mimi the boy bear, Kitty-Cat, Camel, Ernie, Giraffe and Tad). He still doesn't say sorry to anyone no matter how hard he throws things but we did get a very sincere apology from Kitty-Cat to Elliot when Simon through a rubber puck down a flight of stairs and it hit Elliot in the head. We take what we can get...
He often puts himself to bed. A couple of days ago he was playing lego with his mom in the evening when he suddenly went to our living room bookshelf, grabbed a book and his water and starting heading up stairs. I could hardly keep up but ending up meeting him in his room. He is the easiest kid to put to bed of all two of our kids. Even more so than Elliot.
Simon hasn't many friends his own age but loves playing with Elliot's friends and calls them his friends too. He really enjoys going to Elliot's school and playing with the kids there when Mom is the parent helper.
Elliot is doing really well at school, where they are learning letters and just went through a month of learning about dinasours. He really enjoyed that and has decided he wants to be a
Paleontologist, though at dinner tonight he decided he wants to be a teacher and a dad.
Elliot is eating a lot better at dinners now which makes dinner, in general, a more pleasing affair.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tales from Ashton Manor
Simon is talking all the time now. His words are clear, his sentences are well-formed. He loves to ask questions. His favourite question is why we say certain things. Say, for example, that I dropped a boulder on my toe and said "Shoot!". Simon would follow with "How come say shoot?"
He has a teddy bear which we received as a gift from the hospital where he is participating in a study. His teddy bear has been named Mimi and is a boy. When Mimi first moved into our house, he mostly just said "mimimimimimimimimimimimi" in a high-pitched voice. Now Mimi has begun to talk quite a bit too. Simon takes good care of Mimi, feeding him, fixing any ouchies he might have and making sure mimi gets his naps.
Simon is also getting sneaky. He approached his mom today and used a disguised voice to pretend to be another toy he had in the house. The toy, the voice stated, was hungry for chocolate. So mom gave Simon a chocolate to give the toy. But, after giving it to the toy, Simon discovered that the toy didn't actually like chocolate after all. So Simon had to eat it instead.
He loved Barney the large pink dinasour and his favourite song to sing before bedtime is "Oh Canada".
He is also beginning to use his imagination in very creative and astonishing ways. Today he used a box as a hockey net, a basketball for a puck and a container of glue for his hockey stick.
Simon will be, if all goes according to plan, in Boot to Blades in January.
Elliot passed his level one skating class and is going into level two in January. He has been really glad to have his Aunty Amanda back from school for the Christmas holidays and he is looking forward to his uncle Clayton being back after his Christmas holidays in Saskatoon.
Elliot is doing really well in school, enjoying being with his friends there and loving his teachers. He also loves Sunday School and his pastor Liz.
We still read a Cam Jansen story nearly every night but recently Elliot also recieved a dinasour book unlike any other. It is a huge pop-out dinasour book that you really need to see to believe. Anyhow, Elliot loves it and I don't mind the break from Cam Jansen's clicking. It was getting on my nerves.
Elliot has loved the snow, Simon is warming up to it.
No pun intended.
He has a teddy bear which we received as a gift from the hospital where he is participating in a study. His teddy bear has been named Mimi and is a boy. When Mimi first moved into our house, he mostly just said "mimimimimimimimimimimimi" in a high-pitched voice. Now Mimi has begun to talk quite a bit too. Simon takes good care of Mimi, feeding him, fixing any ouchies he might have and making sure mimi gets his naps.
Simon is also getting sneaky. He approached his mom today and used a disguised voice to pretend to be another toy he had in the house. The toy, the voice stated, was hungry for chocolate. So mom gave Simon a chocolate to give the toy. But, after giving it to the toy, Simon discovered that the toy didn't actually like chocolate after all. So Simon had to eat it instead.
He loved Barney the large pink dinasour and his favourite song to sing before bedtime is "Oh Canada".
He is also beginning to use his imagination in very creative and astonishing ways. Today he used a box as a hockey net, a basketball for a puck and a container of glue for his hockey stick.
Simon will be, if all goes according to plan, in Boot to Blades in January.
Elliot passed his level one skating class and is going into level two in January. He has been really glad to have his Aunty Amanda back from school for the Christmas holidays and he is looking forward to his uncle Clayton being back after his Christmas holidays in Saskatoon.
Elliot is doing really well in school, enjoying being with his friends there and loving his teachers. He also loves Sunday School and his pastor Liz.
We still read a Cam Jansen story nearly every night but recently Elliot also recieved a dinasour book unlike any other. It is a huge pop-out dinasour book that you really need to see to believe. Anyhow, Elliot loves it and I don't mind the break from Cam Jansen's clicking. It was getting on my nerves.
Elliot has loved the snow, Simon is warming up to it.
No pun intended.
Simon's Birthday at McDonalds
Simon goes adventuring through the tunnels at McDonalds for the very first time!
Simon's Birthday at the Christmas Train
Hello there, Ned. How do you do?
Tell me, tell me
What is new?
Elliot is four
Simon is two
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Pictures to come...
I just downloaded (uploaded?) a boatload of pictures. Simon's birthday, Christmas, Snowdays and other cool pictures. I'm just away from the main computer right now. But I'll get to them as soon as I can so you can see them too.
Monday, November 03, 2008
curiouser and curiouser...
In a Wonderland kind of way, our kids are crazy.
Case in point:
Elliot: Simon, do you want to play Uncle Bridge?
Simon: Yeah.
Elliot and Simon (while running around the kitchen table): Uncle Bridge!! Uncle Bridge!!
Elliot: Simon, who is Uncle Bridge?
Case in point:
Elliot: Simon, do you want to play Uncle Bridge?
Simon: Yeah.
Elliot and Simon (while running around the kitchen table): Uncle Bridge!! Uncle Bridge!!
Elliot: Simon, who is Uncle Bridge?
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Post-Halloweeeeeen Post Post-Five (AKA Six)
Finally, Halloween Night arrives and the Ashton men head out for some real, honest-to-goodness door-to-door trick-or-treating. Simon lost a boot, but we got it back. He wore his orange rain coat over his pirate costume so most people thought he was a pumpkin. Elliot went with his friend Tate, who was dressed up like Jack Sparrow. Elliot's pumpkin bag was literally overflowing by the time we finished our townhouse complex. Our house only saw thirty seven kids this year. Great weather though.
Post-Halloweeeeeen Post Post-Four (AKA Five)
Elliot's preschool Halloween party, which mom volunteered to help with, which meant Simon had a chance to attend the party as well, which meant great fun for all!
Post-Halloweeeeeen Post Post-Three (AKA Four)
Here we are, us Ashton men, working on our Halloween crafts.
For the pumpkins, Elliot designed the faces and Mom and Dad did the carvin'.
Dad only cut himself fairly severely once this year. Mom is thinking of buying a plastic knife for Dad, corked-fork to follow.
Please note - Roughrider shirt on Elliot, as Oct 30 was the day Saskatchewan defeated the Toronto Argos to take home advantage for the... oh sorry, you stopped paying attention didn't you. More pictures you say? Alright...
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