Happy Halloween!

Keira has been looking forward to this day for days now. To the point of driving us crrraazy. "Is it halloween now?". This question is asked several times a day...



She ended up as a Princess to school (as you can see, she is surrounded by older girls & spoiled by them!) and as a Princess for trick 'o treating. Was she scared of the bigger kids? Uh, nope. In fact, she told a bunch of the older ones when they swarmed past her to the door of a house that "hey! 'at'tention, be caerful. c'est pas gentile ca". lol. Stick it to em!







We visited Grandma and Loulou at the end and after scarfing down as many lollipops and chocos as she could, Keira brushed her teeth by herself at home. Sweet!

Biggest change this year from last, we had so many kids to our house! We ran out of candy (and coins) by 8pm. Ah...all is well with the world.. Happy Halloween everyone!

A conversation with Miss K..

A conversation with keira from c park on Vimeo.

Just dance...

Hannah Montana from c park on Vimeo.
Keira can't decide.. Do I want to be Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana? Might as well just dance.

Pumpkin surprise...with bunny ears!



We enjoyed a Sunday Halloween outing, a couple of blocks from our house. The city organized a Halloween event for the families and especially the kids. There was face-painting (keira chose to be a butterfly), apple bobbing (too cold!), a magic show, farm animals, candies given out, colouring, pumpkin-decorating...Lots of fun! Keira had a blast..

More fairy princess costumes...

(snort!) some days..angel she is not..





This is what happens when you only have 1 kid. You go overboard with buying too many fairy costumes! We did buy Keira her halloween costume (v.early this time) but then we went beserk. Claude went on a couple of business trips to the States and well...since they have way more choices than we do (and since he was already visiting the motherland of Wal-mart), he bought her 3 new costumes. What to choose when the big H-day arrives...hmm...Princess Aurora? Tinkerbell?? Purple fairy? Ballgown lady?? She'll probably be covered up come Halloween night with boots, coat, hat, scarf and other winter type accessories...But she'll be a fairy within....

Cavity-Free

Keira's 2nd visit to the dentist and her 1st official checkup and clean! Let's hope her "cavity-free" status stays that way.

Kimono

I love these images...So beautiful from Gianz (Flickr)

Autumn Hike Mont St Bruno

On our way!






Hand in hand...two by two!


My girl...










Cousins..




After hearing devastating news about our friend's son, we wanted more family time together.. try to really appreciate the good stuff in our lives. We went on a family hike to St Bruno with Chris and her family. Gorgeous day, beautiful scenery and everyone healthy (and hungry!). What more could we ask for??

Budding Artist or Mad Scientist?

I shall name you Squishy and you shall be mine!

Disney On Ice

Getting into the Disney spirit.


Breakfast of champions


Hugs n kisses with dad before leaving - Taking the metro.




The Incredibles...Mr Incredible kept tugging at his wig uh, I mean hair! ;p


Cinderella!

Our first Disney on Ice show! I thought it was pretty good, great props. They really know how to entertain little kids and integrated a lot of different characters into the show. The main characters were from The Incredibles.

As soon as you walked into the Bell Centre though, whew! You get hit by the merchandise and food. Even I went a little nutty looking at all the knick-knacks. lol. This time around, after having gone to the Backyardigans show (for which I only had 5$ in my pocket), I actually brought some moolah.

I was surprised the show lasted that long, about 2 hours with a 15 minute break in between. Keira really got into it, dancing and clapping. She wanted to leave the show when it got to the scary part! I covered her eyes.

We ended up at the Cage aux Sports after the show (at the Bell Centre) along with alot of other families. They have a small stage downstairs where we ate and of course, Keira being Keira, she ended up on the stage dancing and singing with a whole bunch of other kids. I am sooo glad she's not like me. Hey, she even got to meet Super Cage!

I want a simpler life

So here I am, at work, writing a new post in Keira's blog when I should in fact be working my tails off, this being "spring catalogue/product" season at work. Pff, I really don't care.

I don't know about all you other moms out there but I'm feeling depressed at always running around and never getting anything really done. Or always done half-arsed. I want a simpler life! Or maybe, just a life without running around trying to hurry up home life just to make it on time to work, be at work all day, rush trying to get out of work to get home only to have an hour or 2 with Keira before getting her into her bath and on to bed. I feel like a super horrible mommy.

This week has started off my depression. First, I was chastised because I brought Keira to school without her hat and scarf because it's soooo obvious that Fall season has started and "Mme. Gauvin, on est dehors TOUS LES JOURS. On met son p'tit capuchon mais elle l'enlève tout'le temps. Ca commence a être fraite". In other words: What kind of mom are you that you bring your kid to school wearing nothing but the uniform t-shirt, pants and light jacket? Can't you see that it's cold outside and you should've made sure your daughter is warm you horrible excuse of a mother you?!

And today I put her in the uniform dress and tights (which btw, I hurriedly put on her including the tights that I bought a size too small and only noticed at school too late cuz it was sliding down her legs) and noticed all the other kids in pants and sweaters. ARGHH!!!!

And I was worried about getting Keira to wake up on time, eat her breakfast on time and then leave on time. Seriously, what kind of friggin mom am I??

I hate working to live... so here I am at work. Feeling extremely guilty and exceptionally un-motivated.

Dix moutons..neuf moinneau...

So we received printed sheets of songs Keira is now learning (or will eventually learn) in class. Classics like Sur le Pont d'Avignon and Frère Jacques. There are some I have no clue to, for instance: Si tu aimes les carrottes les carrottes, tappe les mains! Si tu aimes les choux-fleurs dit olé ! At the 'olé' part Keira shouts out and shoots one arm up in the air à la cheerleader 'OH-LAY!!'.

So hubby has been teaching her some songs he learned when he was a kid. One of them being "dix moutons, neuf moinneau, huit lapins, etc all the way to....et unnnne souris verte". We caught her today singing in the back of the car (on our way to Ikea) singing, "dix moinneau, neuf moinneau, huit moinneau, cinq moinneau, six moinneau et uuuuuuune sourit vert-uh!". hehehehe.

Gotta love it!