Over the Weekend

Last weekend was great. It was the first time in a long time that I didn't have to work. Which usually results in me missing out on alot of fun things. To start the weekend off, Nick came home with a new addition to the family. His own little budgie named Clemonie. Nick bought the bird to play his pan flute to and hopefully she will sing back. She is still pretty timid, but alot of progress has been made. She is still young and has a ways to go. Nick made it very clear that it is his bird. Only his hand goes into the cage so she can bond to only him. This is Clemonie:)

After the purchase of Clemonie, being the softy that I am started to feel bad for Mikayla that here sits this budgie at her level but she must leave her be. So I decided to get Mikayla her own bird for her room. I got her a cockatiel that she named Rocky. She thinks her hair looks like a rockstar lol. We have decided to mark on her calender when her cage must be cleaned. This will be Mikaylas responsibility with my help where needed. Rocky is a really sweet bird that seems to adore Mikayla. They do everything together from dancing to painting. She is super quiet too which is a bonus! Here is Rocky

Saturday we spent with Melissa and Andrew. We took Mikayla to the zoo in the morning and met up later during the day at their place for dinner, a sleepover and some UFC. It was lots of fun:)

Sunday I had a soccer game which I always enjoy:) I also got to have a visit with my brother who lives in London. He doesn't get home all that often due to a busy work schedule so it was nice to see him. He spent the day catching up, goofing around with Mikayla and finishing it off with some Chinese food:) Picture courtesy of Mikayla

Halloween

Yesterday was a LONG Day!

Mikayla was beyond hyper and couldn't wait to trick-or-treat. Mikayla spent her day listening to thriller over and over and over again. She then decided to put on white socks and dress shoes and copy all of Michael Jackson's moves.

After a couple hours of that, Mikayla took my camera and insisted everyone make halloween faces.

Nick's face was really convincing!

Mikayla calls this scary face "egg head"

My scary face, well this is it! I don't know how I managed to look like a fat old man, but I did.

After the scary faces got boring, Nick and Mikayla did their usual wrestling for a while. This is how it ended:

After wasting enough time with pointless activities, we were finally able to dress up and get ready for trick or treating! This year was we all dressed up. The theme was Mikayla's idea and we didn't want to let her down.

He all had a great time and scored LOTS of candy!

Fun Friday Night

On Wednesday Mikayla turned 5! One of her gifts was a very much wanted Nerf gun. She has wanted one for years, but her hands were always to small to pull the trigger. The packaging does say 7+ on it but I don't think she could have waited that long...so my mom decided to pick one up for her this year. It's just a tiny little pistol and she has no problem handling it. She's had a great time shooting us for the past few days, but tonight Mommy and Daddy decided to get in on the action. Nick came home from school with a Nerf revolver ready to ambush Mikayla when she walked through the door. After the 2 of them exchanged some shots back and forth, the quickly ganged up on me. So after a nice dinner at East Side Mario's, I insisted we head to Wal-Mart so I could pick my weapon of choice. We walked out of Wal-Mart with 3 guns in hand and a battle on our minds.
We had a total of 5 guns in the fight (Nick and I each sporting 2)

Nick- Double barrel shot gun & Nerf revolver

Lisa- Mikayla's birthday pistol & Nerf ball blaster buzzsaw

Mikayla- Nerf ball bazooka

Here are some pictures before and during our Nerf war.

The weapons

Loading up the darts

Game Face!

One Fierce Team

Mikayla took this one (look at the wimp with the pillow)

He plays dirty!

She did start on my team..traitor!

We had a great time and I'm sure there will be more fights in the near future:)

Mikayla Had a Little Lamb...

Mikayla's favourite pass time is colouring and drawing. She considers herself quite the artist. Well not long ago Mikayla came home from school with a stack full of pictures that she had accumulated over a couple weeks time. As I was going through the stack and placing some pictures on the fridge, this cute little lamb jumped out at me. Why you ask....because Mikayla took it upon herself to add a final touch to the picture. No, not flowers or a smiling sun...but a nice piece of poop coming from the lamb's behind. We all know Mikayla is not your ordinary little 4 year old, but after doing some research, I can now say with confidence that it is strictly Nick's doing! When I showed Nick Mikayla's masterpiece....he laughed and then explained that he did that same thing in grade 1 to a bunny picture. Like father, like daughter...

Gary

Meet Gary...one of Mikayla's latest pets. Hes a strange little guy but a perfect pet for Mikayla. Mikayla is known bug animals until they have had enough leaving her with very few animal friends. But Gary can tuck back in his shell if he's had enough...or give her a good pinch to teach her a lesson lol. Gary is a strawberry hermit crab. He isn't timid or aggressive. Hes easy to take care of and makes a perfect pet...hes an ugly little fella, but hes part of the clan now:)

Double Trouble

With Nick's foot now in a cast, my 2 devils are having plenty of time to hang out...which scares me just alittle. They have been known to gang up on me from time to time. Here are somepictures from their "ice cream party" last night.

Can't forget to "cheers" with the spoons

I'll have to monitor the time they spend together...to make sure it doesn't get out of hand lol. Nick has the tendancy to rub of on her..and it doesn't take long to pick up those bad habits. As you can see from this picture taken about a month ago of Mikayla sleeping...

Happy Halloween!!!

This year we bought Mikayla an Ariel princess dress to wear for Halloween. Ariel is her absolute favourite princess and as soon as she saw the dress it was an easy choice for her. Mikayla really scored this year and had 3 parties to go to along with a halloween dance a thon as a fundraiser at her school.. She had a party with the kids in my moms co-op, 1 at her daycare and 1 with her JK class. She wore her Ariel dress to all of these parties and brought her little Flounder stuffed animal along for the ride. Tonight right before we headed out to trick or treat she had a change of heart. She decided to wear her monkey costume from last year's halloween and thankfully it still fit! She said she just wanted to show all her school friends that she was a real princess but her monkey costume was still her favourite. She got lots of compliments on the monkey costume. It is really cute:) She had a great time tonight as she chanted at every door " Trick or treat, smell my feet give me something good to eat"