life with lucas...and maliya!

Friday, April 13, 2012

Easter 2012

We were thrilled to have Mamie and Grammie join us for Easter weekend! The weather couldn't have been better for lots of outdoor fun! Lucas had a blast with them!

Breakfast with Grammie!

....while Lucas worked on breakfast with Mamie!

Soooomebody is getting more birthday presents!

New gear for a future camping trip together! Lucas has never used a sleeping bag before, so he thought that was pretty cool! He had to read his "Curious George Goes Camping" book from them every night now!

Cutie pie! She just LOVES the swings!

Kisses from Daddy.

Easter Sunday!

The Easter Bunny left the empty basket at the bottom of the stairs so Lucas would have something to put his eggs in. I guess Lucas thought it would be full already!

"But there are no eggs in there, Mommy".......

"I FOUND ONE"

Pretty happy about this egg hunt business!

The Easter Bunny even hopped on by Maliya's head!

Caught in the act. Lucas wasn't looking, so she made a beeline for the bus!

Munching on a laaaarge piece of chocolate! Mamie and Grammie brought, quite possibly, the largest Easter egg EVER!

Lucas decided to stop for a break........five minutes into our walk on the seawall.

It's a race!

Keeping up with a 3 year old is exhausting!

...and this would be Maliya's newest smile. Hahahahaha. She does it aaaall the time now!

Cuddles with Grammie and Mamie

Family shot. Too bad at least one of us was not looking in each shot!

'Helping' Maliya open her Easter basket since she was sleeping earlier. Lucas doesn't look too impressed with that bib! However, he wears it almost daily himself! Hahaha.

Looks like Maliya is impressed!

Happy Easter!

Messy, But Cute!

Somebody is a messy, messy girl. Mommy forgot what pigs babies are!

.....but damn, is she CUTE!?!

Freshy Squeezed

Lucas was 'helping' me make pancakes recently. Our favourite recipe calls for freshly squeezed orange juice. Lucas begged and pleaded to 'taste' the "oranth juice" (as he calls it). I squeezed some extra, just for him....

Sampling...

Investigating the pulp. Grandpa B. would be all over THAT juice!

Mmm!!!

Monday, April 9, 2012

MORE Birthday!

And the birthday surprises just keep on coming! The day after Lucas' birthday, Grandpa Ben and Grandma Marie came over for cupcakes.....and brought moooore presents for him!

A superman cape that Grandma made....WOW! He was playing 'shy' though! His new favourite thing to do!

A new BIKE!

Holding back the excitement, haha.

He was so nervous!

He may be nervous because it's bigger, but he rode it around the the front yard!

And....he decided to go inside. It was a start though!

We've got a lot of sunny spring days ahead to figure it out!

Time for some 'flying' around, Super Lucas!

Happy 3rd Birthday Lucas!

Well, it 'only' took me two weeks to get to it.....but HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lucas!

Our 'little' boy has turned THREE years old! Now, in a perfect world, I'd love to dig up some of my favourite pictures of him to date.........but we all know that's not going to happen! Life is busy, and just keeping up with the day-to-day events and blogging about them keeps me plenty busy. My to-do list is certainly not getting any shorter!

Anyway, onto the birthday events! Three is a fun age....minus the major temper tantrums and meldowns, and general orangutan behaviour that three year olds tend to exhibit. This birthday was extra special because it was the first one that Lucas actually had a concept of what happens on a birthday. He talked about his birthday for weeks. Who would be coming to his party, how old he would be....and the very first request....chocolate cake. Had to have chocolate cake.