Pippa and Daddy sledding down Mt. Bachelor

Mummy needed a break today, so I took Pippa up to Mt. Bachelor for a little sledding action. There wasn't much snow, but as Pippa always says, some snow is better than no snow. At first she was a little unstable walking up the hill, but by the end of it she was scaling the mountain like a 3'0" Sir Edmund Hillary. A little powderhound in the making! Of course, she loves the sledding down part the most, making Pinkie Toe Little Piggy sounds (Wee! Wee! Wee!, for those who don't know about the Five Little Piggies) all the way down.

Pippa's best picture ever!

Today I got out the crayons and for 5 minutes Pippa was quite enthusiastic about drawing! Her subject was the Care Bear she had been carrying around all morning. As she drew she narrated what she was drawing, so now I can share this with you.

11/17/08

From left to right: a tree, then another tree and under it (the bottom green) grass, then the blue on the right is the Care Bear. On the Care Bear I have to go from top to bottom: hair is first, then the head with 2 eyes, then the body, then I guess the feet?

This is the first time Pippa has ever set out to draw something other than a circle, so I am very proud of this first drawing. It is up on the fridge and will be a keeper!

William NEVER sleeps...

Noooooo, he's really a very good sleeper. Sometimes he's a little eager to go to sleep. I think this means there's going to be an early bedtime...

October 5th, 2008

Awwww, he's so cute and cuddly.

September Weekends...

So I barely posted any pictures throughout September, so here is a quick update. We actually did a few fun things. The first was mid-September when we went to the Lava Cast Forest. We drove 9 miles on an unpaved road to get there, and let me tell you, it felt like 100. With morning sickness and a rattley 13-year-old car it didn't feel that good, however the resulting landscape was quite worth it.

Trying to get these 2 to look at the camera is close to impossible. Trying to get them in the same picture facing the camera is closer to impossible. Getting them in the same picture, facing the camera and looking happy is just plain impossible.

I was holding them down!

Pippa hugging William as he tries to get up. This happens a lot.

On September 27th, a local Alapaca farm was having an open day, so we went along to check them out. William wanted to ride one I think and was trying to climb into the enclosures. Pippa was just happy to be running around.

Halloweeeeeeen!

On Friday it was Halloween, in case you forgot. We decided to take Pippa 'trick or treating' around the neighborhood, just to a few houses. What we didn't realize was how much she would love collecting candy from scary looking houses in the dark, so she ended up knocking at closer to 30 houses around our neighborhood. She REALLY loved it! She ran up every driveway, knocked on the doors herself and said "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you" to every single person. Now she has a pumpkin bucket full of candy to get through. Of course, she is getting a little help...

Pippa was dressed as a little fairy and William was wearing his Thomas the Tank Engine outfit until he went to bed at 6.30! He was too tired to go out with Pippa, but she is a good sharer. I'm kind of excited about next year now. (Just FYI, it was also my first time going Trick or Treating, although I didn't have to dress up or look cute and I didn't get any of my own candy, but it was still so much fun watching Pippa's eyes pop!)

William was sooooo tired!

Pippa didn't realize what was in store for her. She knew something fun was going on but little did she know. Christmas is going to blow her mind!

Peeing on a Stick!

On August 16th I decided to pee on a stick. I passed the test with flying colors, the result being a baby sibling for Pippa and William. Yay! Anyway, we are now in our 14th week and everything seems to be well.

I know I haven't written for ages and for those who read this regularly, I'm sorry! We've been busy, I've been really tired and a bit sick and I have had problems with my computer. Luckily, (if you read a couple of months back) I had just bought an external hard drive and immediately copied all my photos onto it and our older, big clunky external hard drive. Phewy. Turns out the internal hard drive broke and needed replacing. Lesson we didn't learn the hard way!

So, if anybody has any advice on how to deal with 3 children within 3 years of age of each other, please let me know.

With everything else that's been going on, I'll catch you up later. I have so many pictures...

Todd "Frog" Lake

Over this last weekend, we went to Todd Lake with Auntie Jess, which is one of the many Cascade lakes nestled in the mountains around here. It took us 20 minutes or so to drive there and on the way up we got Pippa and William all excited that we were going for a hike. If you've ever hiked with a 2 year old you would know that it's more like a slow amble with a lot of back-tracking. Especially when there are rocks and water involved. I don't know if you recall the blog about our trip to Tumalo Falls, but during that trip Pippa discovered the joy of throwing rocks into and body of water. Since then, whenever we see a stream or a river or a lake or a pond she will hunt for rocks and throw them in the water. So this is what she did at Todd Lake. We didn't get very far because Pippa just wanted to walk in the water and throw rocks in the water. When we got halfway round, we stopped for a while to play and discovered all these little frogs. We got to show Pippa the frogs and she got to hold a couple. It was pretty neat! William just hung out in the carrier.

We all had a fun time and enjoyed the late Summer weather, the scenery and the "hike".

The largest frog we saw. It was about the size of a quarter.

Hunting for rocks and throwing the rocks.




Frog spotting with Daddy!