Family Day Fun

We had a great time on Family Day with our friend Julie from Austria and her kids Finn and Stella.  We spent the morning at an indoor play centre and then Julie and the kids came back to our house for lunch and some playtime in the afternoon.  It was great to catch up with Julie and see how her kids have grown (we hadn't seen them for a year and a half).  Cohen loved every minute of playing with the big kids.  Here are a few pics from the morning.


Playing skee-ball:

Julie showing the kids how it's done.

Cohen taking a turn (his ball only made it about half way up the ramp)

Stella checked all the games for coins and found 3 tokens!

Riding on the dinosaur:

Playing in the giant playground:

Climbing up very high!

Going down the big slide...he wasn't one bit scared and went down on his own!

Funny Face

Holding Hands

"Aidan, hold my hand!"

"Now hold the other hand too."

"That's right.....now, let's dance!"

Mommy & Daddy's Night Off!

Cohen had his first sleep over on Saturday night at Oma and Opa's house with Uncle Kyle and Wyatt too!  The best part was that Mommy and Daddy got a whole night to themselves!  Yay!  Cohen loved all the special treats from Oma and Opa and some one-on-one time with big cousin Wyatt.  In fact, he had so much fun that he didn't want to go to sleep....and stayed up until midnight.....and woke up again at 5 am!  

Thank you Oma, Opa and Uncle Kyle for taking such good care of Cohen and Molly!  We enjoyed our night in Niagara-on-the-Lake!

Here's a picture of Cohen napping with Uncle Kyle.

Visiting with Friends

Last weekend we had a nice visit with Giselle, Steve and Aidan.  Cohen loved discovering all of Aidan's toys.

Decorating Valentine's Day Cookies

Cohen and his cousins decorated heart shaped cookies for Valentine's Day....and then got to eat them!

Keeping a Toddler Occupied in the Hospital

I've just gotten around to taking these pictures off my phone from Cohen's first stay in the hospital in January.  It wasn't always easy to keep a one-year-old happy while confined in an 8'x5' space for a week and connected first to the oxygen and later to the IV.  We brought some of Cohen's toys from home, plus books and his colouring books and markers.  But, there was a lot of TV watching (thankfully they had a TV with the Treehouse channel) and playing games on the ipad (thank God for technology!).  These are activities that Cohen doesn't get to do much of at home, so he was happy to do them much of the time.

Here's our little trooper keeping occupied:

Watching TV up close

Watching TV from afar

Oh, here's a great way to keep busy for 15 minutes....go through Mommy's purse and empty all the contents, then go through the wallet and do the same!