Creeps and Razzes

Karen here.

It's official. We have to lock the baby gates on the stairs because our little girl CREEPS!

And this Raz razzes. We had a razberry-off.

Think she won?  ;)

"Winter" Days

Karen here.

So it's not really winter outside, so most days we brave the almost spring like weather and hit a local park. Pearl is now at a point where I don't have to hold her the whole time, which is fun. This is how she used to spend her time in the back yard.

Now it's more like this.

She loves the swing and sits contentedly observing anyone and anything. I think she just likes being outside.

Same thing with her goofy brother, although he doesn't always look it.

Magnus's new favourite thing is to pull the wagon. EVERYWHERE. Fine by me. I get a break and he burns a few more calories (which is SO great cuz we are cooped up so much). Here he is going about his business.

So you can see that Pearl is a bit of a play thing. No, not play mate. He doesn't play with her like she is a person who contributes to the game. No, She is more like a doll.

In this first video you see how excited Mags is, and in the second video you can see how excited Pearl is. This was the first time Mags pushed Pearl, and I had so much fun. :)

Hopefully we get a bit more snow before the "winter" is over. Matt really wants to take Mags sledding and I want to take him skating. Cross your fingers!

Recent Shinanigans

Karen here.

We've been a little busy lately. First we were getting ready for Christmas (Well, that was mostly me this year. This was the first time that Magnus understood what was going on, Who knew how much time you have to spend getting ALL THOSE PRESENTS!?). Then in January we've been incredibly busy trying to cross some things off our never-ending-and-always-expanding To Do list. I won't get into the details, but it's a lot. So much so that Matt and I had to sit down one night to prioritize and assign duties, in addition to separating them into short, medium and long term To Do's.

Yup. 2 peas in a pod.

So since we now feel like we have control back over our lives and things aren't piling up on top of us, I can take a few to record some of the recent shinanigans.

This one is my favourite. Just listen at the end.

That was "I'm Stuck". A phrase we hear a lot these days. I'm still thankful that Mags can't open doors, not intentionally anyway. Soon, though, we'll have to install extra locks on the exterior doors!


Magnus recently fell in love with the vacuum, or 'keaning up' as he calls it. This was the first time he turned the hose towards himself.

Mags isn't much of a singer (takes after his dad you know). But when Mags starts "singing" you'd swear you hear Mike Myers reciting poetry in his movie "So I Married An Axe Murderer" (circa 1993).

Just sayin'.


Mags has now entered the world of make believe. Daily or rather multiple times a day, he calls out "Ghosts". Apparently we have ghosts living upstairs. But it's not a problem because they sleep during the day. Monsters have also recently entered into the picture, but that's the extent of the imagination I'm afraid. For now I guess. He does like pretending to be a ghost though. :)

He's also become camera shy.

But he loves colouring with markers. Here he is wearing his 'marker shirt' which is one of Matt's old dress shirts. So adorable!

And just before we visited all our family at Christmas, we thought it was about time Mags got his first hair cut. We took him to the place Matt goes because they have race car kids chairs. Little did we know they would also give Magnus a balloon animal AND a lollipop! They were really great there. Here he is before, during and after (totally unphased as we should have guessed).

Meanwhile, Pearl is as Pearl does.

That tongue of hers is rarely in her mouth. It's probably because the thing is like a foot long. People are not supposed to have tongues that long, let alone babies. She takes after my mum's mum in this respect. That hardened Dutch woman could easily touch the tip of her nose with her tongue. I can hit the base of my nose, but not the tip! I'm betting Sweet P here will be able to do the same no problem.


Pearl is starting to get frustrated at not being as mobile as she would like to be. But she's more mobile than you would think. She can easily turn in a circle, which I discovered one day. I had set her up on her tummy facing into the kitchen, and a moment later I heard a 'twang'. She had turned herself around and found a new play thing.

And she spends quite a bit of time jumping, which she loves.

Together, they're pretty cute.