Christmas 2010

It is that time of the year again. It's my favourite time of the year, and I'm sure many others, too. Chocho loves Christmas. And frankly, what kid wouldn't like Christmas? It's that time of the year when they get to get to write their letters to Santa asking for the gifts they want for Christmas. This week I took Chocho out Christmas shopping with me, and I warned him that the purpose of the trip was to look for gifts for OTHER people, and not for him. He said "ok". But of course, at the first sight of toys, it all began.... "can I have this?", "I want that", "it's not for me, it's for Jassie", "pleaseee?", "but I want to buy myself a present, too", "but I've been really good this year", "I'll share with Jassie, I promise", "but I don't have this one yet", and it goes on and on and on.... :) On the way home Chocho blurted in the car

"Mama, I think I know why Santa is so fat."
"Oh really? Why?"
"Because he eats too many of those cookies."
"Oh, wow, ya I never would've guessed!"
"Ya, this time we gotta give him healthy cookies."
"How about Oatmeal cookies with raisins and no sugar?"
"Ya ok."

:)

Merry Christmas to all and Happy New Year, too!



Crazy kids in action:

CIBC Kids Xmas party 2010

We went to my work annual Children's Christmas Party last week. Chocho loves going to this and is always looking forward to it. He was asking about it even before I told him that we were going again this year. He gets to play and enjoy all the jumping castles and the gift he gets from Santa. Jasmine did not really qualify height-wise for the jumping castle activities, so she and I spent our time in the crafting section where she made an angel, painted a little pine cone, and decorated a giftbag. Chocho joined afterwards and he made 2 giftbags for himself and for me.

When it came to meeting Santa, I was afraid if Jasmine would be afraid. There were Winnie the Pooh and other Disney characters there as well, and Jasmine did not want to meet any of them. But when she saw Sleeping Beauty (I think that's who it is), she forced Dada to line up so she can go meet her and take a picture with her. Afterwards the kids met with Santa and Mrs. Clause and they were both behaving and were willing to take a picture without crying.

Can't believe it's Christmas time already!

Halloween 2010

Halloween prep began a couple of months before Halloween started when Dada found an Iron Man pajamas at the mall! Chocho was set on wearing the pj to go trick or treating. I didn't like the idea since it was so thin, but Dada made sure Chocho wore layers and layers of clothes underneath that crazy pajamas!

Jasmine, on the other hand, didn't get a new costume. I just thought she would just wear Chocho's old one, the dinosaur. She didn't like the idea at first, resisting in putting the costume on, etc. But Dada bribed her somehow, and she agreed with one exception - that she doesn't need to wear the head. She ended up with her own toque with Mickey Mouse on it. Both kids were wearing layers of clothes underneath their costumes. I wish Halloween was in the summer for us. But they were fine and they had fun. Unlike Chocho, Jasmine was not shy at all. She says "Trick or Tweet" at every door, and actually says "thank you".

Fall 2010

We wanted to enjoy the fall colours a couple of months ago, but we were afraid the kids wouldn't enjoy the long ride to places like Algonquin, etc. So we decided to drive to a nearby park and enjoy the colours there. We ended up in Unionville at Too Good Pond to stroll around the park, look at the ducks, and play some soccer. It was a fun day for everyone.






At home, we always had to do the annual leaves raking in the backyard. It's crazy how all the leaves go bald and we end up with bags and bags of leaves to dispose. The kids, of course, enjoy the cleaning part. Chocho asked me to pile up all the leaves into a huge pile so that he can run and dive into them. Here they are enjoying the leaves while I was working hard in cleaning the yard. Both kids ended up straight in the bathtub after this, and all their jackets in the laundry.