Siena turned 4 on Aug 17 and Avery turned 1 on Aug 28, so we held a big party to celebrate last week. It was really fun!! Here are the pics from the birthday party :)

Siena's first day of school.  Junior kindergarten.  Sept 6, 2011 :)


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Siena loves to sing and dance

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At Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory

We had a great day at the butterfly conservatory in Niagara Falls.  Siena loved the butterflies, and Avery also enjoyed watching them fly around.  Here is Siena watching butterflies all over her hands/arms :)

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We're in  a major heat wave here!  It's been hot for weeks and getting hotter.  For tomorrow (Thursday), the temperature is forecast to hit 38C!!!   And the humidex is forecast to reach 48C tomorrow!

And we have only had 6 mm of rain in the past month.... almost no rain at all..  really having quite a hot & dry summer this year.

Siena and Avery:  Sisterly love! :)

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It's been quite a while since I last updated.  Life is so busy once you have 2 kids, I barely have time to go on-line.  Avery is almost 9 months old now, though she is going through teething so she cries a lot and wants to be held a lot.... she is starting to crawl a bit now too!  Siena is also growing fast.. she'll be 4 years old this summer.

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Here is a video from last September of Siena and her pet caterpillar taken at the farm.

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Avery is 6 months old today (Feb 28).. here is a video of her laughing! :)

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Once again, we had more snow this weekend.  It has turned out to be quite a snowy winter, which Siena has loved.  She really enjoys going out to play in the snow.  Today, she was excited as we had packing snow so she could actually build a snowman!  Siena and I built 2 snowmen and she was so excited!  She loved decorating them by adding carrots ( ( Read more... )