Joey has been learning magic tricks. And he's good at them - really good! Here he is doing one of his tricks with a magic colouring book!

And here's another one where he cuts a shoelace in half :)

That's my boy :) He's also getting into balloon art.... so is Jason. Here's Chris with one of their.... um, creations, if you can call it that! More like a bumper bonnet, if you ask me!!!

Today the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving. Wish I was having turkey. Instead its a normal work day for me, yipee. No sarcasm there whatsoever ;) So happy Thanksgiving Ken, as well as Uncle Bill & Aunt Margaret and all the family down there in the states!

So not only does Chris like to flip people off, he now likes to steal. He came home from daycare on Friday with a set of keys in his jacket pocket. He insisted that they were his keys, adamant that he didn't get them at daycare! Turns out that it was just a set that they keep in the toddler room for the kids to play with. Oh yeah, he also told Joanna, a pregnant teacher at his daycare, to "pop that baby out"! Only my kid, what can I say - I'm so proud!

Tomorrow is report card day! I'm excited because we've been told that Joey is doing sooooo well this year. He's really trying hard - his writing has really improved, and he reads amazingly well. He still mixes up some letters by writing them backwards, but he'll get it. He's doing awesome :)

I was driving to work one day last week listening to the radio and they were talking about National Hello day. It was a day when you were supposed to say hello to 10 people that you didn't know. So they placed a call, on air, to the Hippie Chippie in Paisley, Scotland. Quite interesting, considering he hung up on them! And here I was thinking that all Scottish people were as nice as me.... hehehe ;)

27 days till Christmas. Am I ready??? Nope. I have most of the presents for our kids, now its time to get everyone else's gift. No idea what to get people... and I figure that I'm going to have to be brave and go to the mall on a weekend to shop. Not looking forward to that... don't like shopping very much in the first place and I HATE crowds!!! Oh well, its a necessary evil, and its all over too soon. Might as well put a smile on my face and enjoy myself. Guess I'm just not in the Christmas spirit yet.

Nothing much else happening here. Joey is talking CONSTANTLY about his birthday party and Chris walks around talking about HoHo all the time. He can't say Santa, he calls him Hoho. Cute :) He is absolutely fascinated with Santa and will sit and watch a Santa movie, the whole thing, without being all fidgety or acting like he has a.d.d. I have to find a 24 hour Santa station on tv!

Ok, off to bed now. Good night everyone!

Christmas is almost here. The kids birthdays are almost here. Snow is here. The cold weather is here. Feels like everything is happening all at once.... and this pic of Chris sums up how I feel about it all right now.

I hope you're laughing too! Chris was colouring yesterday morning while I was getting ready for work... he got some red marker on his finger and was convinced it was a boo-boo. He decided to show me, and this is exactly what he did! After I took the picture, I played along with it and got him a band-aid and kissed it all better, but what a way to start the day! Hilarious :)

Joey had a social studies quiz last week. We just found out that he got 20/20 on it!!! So proud of him :) That's one that we'll be keeping... anyone want a copy for their fridge, just ask! We also found out that he got an A on his Scotland project! His teacher was very impressed with all the information in it and with his presentation. We'll get the project back next week, the kids are checking out all the projects this week, so we have to wait. And its report card time next week... something tells me I have nothing to worry about :)

Ok, now that I've posted an awful picture of my son and bragged about my other son, its time to call it a night. Hope you at least got a giggle out of it :)

I'm tired tonight. We took the kids to the Children's Museum today to see the Dinosaur's Alive exhibit... they exhausted me! I have no idea where kids get their energy :) Enjoy the pictures!

Dinosaur's Alive!