Maybe

Lucas has discovered a couple of new words but Maybe is his favourite at the moment, although I am not sure he gets exactly what it means. for example

Maybe Lucas would like some chocolate milk = Lucas wants chocolate milk

Maybe I would like to go to the park = I want to go to the park

Maybe Mommy would like to play trains with Lucas= Mommy wants to play trains with Lucas

Last week we went to Port Dalhousie and rode the carosel. Lucas was sooooooo thrilled with that. Mostly because he has a book called Thomas and the New Carousel, in this book Thomas the tank engine delievers a carousel to the festival and in the process loses a crate and then has to go and find it. Well all day he talked about that book and since being on the carousel we have talked about it, read stories about it, and discussed when we will go again. Lucas: "We will go to Port Dalhousie to go on the new carousel, Thomas delievered it." Mommy: Maybe on day. Lucas: "We will, we will". I guess we are going to Port Dalhousie again.

He never forgets anything, that kid. Lucas has started thinking about Potty training, and a while back we read a book that he had taken out of the library about potty training, in the book the little kid goes on the potty and says he is proud. Now when Lucas goes on the potty he says "I am so proud of me"

Can't forget to write about the little one. Ava is constantly watching her big brother and really wants to get going with him (notice she is playing with Monster trucks in her exersaucer, such a little lady). She loves playing with his train set, Lucas asks her to come and play but when the trains get "stuck in the drool" the fun is over because apparently drool is not good for train.

Ava is enjoying her solid food, maybe a little too much , we are having a problem getting it to come out the other end - hopefully she regulates that soon. She recently started blowing bubbles right on time, according to the development chart I follow, otherwise known as the "Lucas blog".

This weekend my brother (Colin) gets married and all the cousins will be together, probably for the first time. Should be an exciting day.

Happy Birthday And Than Some

We found a train set and table on Kijiji and thought he would like it. Since we never gave him a birthday present (unless you count Ava as a present) we figured it would be a nice gift. Anyway he sure did like it. It was a "Happy Surprise" he said. We couldn't play with it all day though because we went to Nana and Papa's for a swim which he was really looking forward to but wanted very badly to get home so he could play again. I was listening to him talk away to himself (as most of you know he is never quiet and today was no exception) he said "I would like to play with my trains all day" Sounds good to me Lucas-man knock yourself out!!!!! Maybe it is happy birthday present for Mommy instead!

Ava had her first taste of solids yesterday, I know it is early but I just can't handle the starving child in the middle of the night that wont take a bottle any more. So a little bit of cereal won't hurt, at least I dont think it will, and Lucas started almost exactly the same time as well so I am not too worried. Listen to me justify myself to myself, pretty sad. Anyway we didn't have a full nights sleep last night but when she got up she was not a ravenous crazy sucking machine so I think it did help a bit.

Peter had said that Ava was singing in Church on Sunday but I had not heard it until today. She sounds like a cross between a cat, cute gremlin, and some sort of monster. Pretty cute though I must say. Unfortunately the video upload on the blog does not work so well for me so I will try and load it up to facebook for you to have a listen. You do have to listen quite closely to hear her over top of her brother, man that kid talks a lot!

It's a Matter Reunion. Everyone was home, except not all are in the picture. Grandma is taking the picture, Aunt Emily is at work and Ava is sleeping. It was nice to have everyone in the same town/province/country for a weekend at least

Watch this space.... There may be an Oakley reunion too later this month!