Happy Birthday Kylie!

I am a bad blogger Mom. Here is is almost a week after Kylie's Birthday and I am finally finishing her birthday post.

Happy Birthday Kylie! 7 wow! There is a lot of Olympic talk at our house lately and I was telling Kylie that I remember hearing the announcement that we won the Olympic bid, she was just a baby! And now here we are a week after celebrating her 7th birthday, they are here. This of course really has nothing to do with Kylie. Just the fact that time flies! You are growing up so fast!

We celebrated with Kylie's friends at The Great Escape! Oi! There were 13 kids at our party plus a million others there. Running, screaming, sweating and having a great time. They all really enjoyed themselves.

After we headed up to one of Kylie's favourite restaurants with most of our family for some yummy pasta and came back to the house for more cake and presents. What an afternoon!

Big Boy Bed!!

A couple weeks ago Kaylum figured out how to escape from baby jail, aka his crib. We knew it was coming, both girls were just over 2 when they made the leap, but we were dreading that last little bit of baby-hood going. OK, truthfully, I was dreading giving up the only place that held the boy in one spot for hours on end. Now he has free reign to roam the house!

So on Sunday while Sean was working I pulled out the toddler bed from the crawl space and slapped it together. This bed has accommodated all 3 of our kids, in either our house or my parents.

Kaylum is soooo happy to have a Big Boy bed! He asks me to come upstairs with him to look at his bed. And he loves being able to get in and out.

This week has gone well with the transition. We were fearful as Kylie's transition was horrible and Keira's was easy. Kaylum's has been middle of the road. He gets out some nights, he falls out some nights and he sleeps well other nights. He gets up and torments the girls in the morning and this morning, I caught him and Kylie reading books together in it!

So bye bye babyhood. The only thing left are diapers.....and we are working on that!

Robbie Burns

On Friday the girls were invited to dance at a Robbie Burn Luncheon for my old dancing teacher's school. We went off to the Dogwood Pavilion to dance for the seniors there. It was a nice program with some toasts, piping and of course dancing. There probably was Haggis, but that was before we got there.

The girls are always a hit with the seniors. And well, how can they not be? Look how cute they are! They also got to dance with the Mayor of Coquitlam! I thought that was pretty neat. They didn't really understand. Mayor Stewart was a great sport getting up on stage with the girls. You can tell he was very serious and concentrating hard on the steps (see his tongue sticking out?).

The girls also danced at another Burn tea on Friday for our dance school but I didn't get a chance to take any pictures. They were stars of that show as well and when we left and walked past all the seniors, they clapped for them. So cute!!

Hot Wheels

We are now a Hot Wheels family. "Play cars?" is a common question around here these days and my parents have gladly obliged Kaylum with Christmas gifts of cars and tracks. My Dad insists there are too many "girl toys" in our house and I suspect he is trying to balance things out!

Avatar

Have you seen Avatar yet??

Sean and I went and it was fabulous! It was our first 3D movie and wow! I've seen the 3D shows at Disneyland but this was different. The 3D was almost subtle, by that I mean they weren't intentionally hurling things at your face to get a reaction. After awhile you almost forgot about the 3D. I absolutely recommend seeing it. But buy your tickets early!

Bubbles!

This is an activity that Kaylum can't get enough of. Whenever we have the sink full of water to do dishes, he's there with a chair helping us (ok mainly Sean). He loves wiping and dumping water from one place to another. And of course, soaking the floor. This is where those Sham Wows! come in handy!

Bright Nights

Most years we make the trek into Stanley Park to enjoy the Bright Nights displays. We didn't go last year as it was bitterly cold and Kaylum was a bit young. So this year we were all excited to go. Of course Kaylum was extra excited because it involved a train and he kept jumping up and down saying YEAH!! Train ride! Train ride!

We made a stop for dinner at a very yummy restaurant that is a favorite of Sean and mine, Shabusen. Its an all you can eat sushi and Korean BBQ house. Soo awesome and good. If you ever get a chance to go, do it! The kids had never been before so we were excited to take them. But they didn't seem that excited to be there. In fact they barely ate. Kylie was not feeling so great and Keira was more interested in drawing with the wee pencil they gave us to make our food selections. Wait, we took Kaylum, he ate enough for the 3 of them, never mind.

This is out front of St Paul's Hospital. It was amazing and so beautiful.

There was a bit of traffic we had to wait through. While we were waiting at long lights, Kylie suggested we just go around and Kaylum suggested, to go faster Daddy, go faster! We finally got into the park with about an hour til our train time. We buy our tickets in advance so we are guaranteed a ride. We learned this the hard way one year. Thankfully it was when Kylie was a baby so there was only adult disappointment that night. We took the kids into the petting zoo and Kaylum just gave us the best look, it sort of said, hey what the hell? This isn't the train ride!! But he enjoyed looking at all the animals and birds. The girls we so excited to see everything and took over my camera for awhile. I guess the lights inspired them!

This is my favourite tree in the park. Its huge and well wrapped with lights.

Kylie took this one. She likes the motion in it.

A kind stranger took this one for us. See, if you take pics of others, one day someone will take one of you!

The wait for the train was 45 minutes. It wasn't too bad as it was continually moving, but we didn't wait that long for a ride in Disneyland! Maybe there should be a Bright Nights Fast Pass system :o)

BC Hydro display

Frosty!

I took my point and shoot so, quality suffers but its about memories! And we had a great night and the kids had fun. I am glad it wasn't any colder than it was!