Next year will be the big birthday but we will celebrate this one anyway. You are one great father, husband and friend. I am so happy that you finally got to go on a fishing trip... mostly because you enjoyed yourself and that it also means I don't have to go. Love you lots!
It's Wyatt's first official year of trick or treating and I think he really liked it! It was a little iffy that he as even going to put on his costume all afternoon. He didn't take a nap so I wasn't too optimistic about the chances of the hedgehog costume seeing the trick-or-treating festivities. However, as soon as he saw his sister and brother getting dressed up and the first couple of kids coming to the door and getting chocolate, he was all in.
The hedgehog made it out for an hour of trick-or-treating... he said trick or treat all the way up to everyone's doors and then would freeze once the people would come to the door... nothing would come out of his mouth except for a quick 'oh tank you' once the treats dropped into his loot bag.
Our super cute and her friend went trick or treating with me for one hour and then went around with a neighbour for another hour. I found out that she had the limo service being pulled around in a wagon once the sugar rush stopped all the energy from going to her legs and walking back home.
and our stick man found some friends to go around with (so he wouldn't be seen with his mom trick or treating) and they hit a couple of seniors residences where they proudly announced that they happened upon a buffet of baked goods!
Last Saturday was a perfect autumn day and when the boys came to get me after training we took advantage of a great part of where we live. The River. It turns out that the salmon are swimming up river and it's great fishing right now. So while John and Jax fished, Wyatt and I took a walk along the path and watched all the leaves fall from the trees, ran after the squirrels and oohed and aahed over all seagulls diving in to get the fish.
Then when it was time to go, I turned around to find this little image of my two boys walking hand in hand.
Last Sunday, Maya and I sat down the sketched out her costume. From head piece to leggings to skirt to tail and feathers.... have you guessed yet? No one wanted my Michael Jackson Tribute. Maya will be a peacock. Wyatt will wear the hedgehog costume I painstakingly made last year (he ended up with a visit to the clinic instead of a trick or treating last year) and Jackson will be a stick man (you'll be more than surprised with how this one turned out - all his idea, I just have to execute it). Other than Wyatt's non are done yet. I'm on the hunt for glow in the dark paint today!
There are lots of things that I wish for my kids... but this week, I realized that I wish for them to have a true friend in their life. A friend that takes them the way they are, that doesn't take them for granted and is there for them good and bad. I had that. I have that. This last week I lost my friend Tracy. She was my true friend. She was the first one outside of my family to hold Jackson and Maya. She was beside me when I got married. She came as soon as John called her to come visit me when I moved to what I thought was isolation. Here are a couple other tidbits about me and Tracy...
We were born one day apart and on our 19th birthday we decided to go to Cedar Point on a bus trip and didn't ride one roller coaster. We sat in the eating areas and ate and talked and watched everyone pass by.
She introduced me to Hamburger Helper. A staple in my house to this day.
She was the only person other than me, that I know, that would never turn down an opportunity for a coffee.
We could spend the whole weekend together doing a jig saw puzzle and she was one of the only people that wouldn't piss me off if she filled in some of my crossword puzzle.
She was my football friend. Someone whose team (Lions) was even worse than mine (Browns).
I admit, I'm sad. But I just feel so lucky that I was a part of her life for the past 23 years. We have been friends since the first day for grade 9 religion class. How lucky was I?
So I finally got to hold the newest member of our family and everyone was making fun of how many pictures I snapped of her. They even told me I was getting too close up (the nerve). But looking at these pictures, I was doing just fine capturing some really great shots of my little Ty-Ty.
This was Ethan's and Kate's birthday presents and I was finally able to deliver this weekend during our family visit to their new - very cute - house.
Ethan's Surfer Room - I picked up the stripe at Winner's (Canada's version of TJMaxx) in August for $1.00, found the grey paint in the miss tints section of the hardware store and bought a big can of primer to make sure to cover all the pink that was in this room for two weeks before I came. Yes, Ethan was sleeping in a pink room! This whole idea came from an awesome surfer/skateboard quilt E already has from the Foleys.... I grabbed some accessories from around the house and I set off to work with some help from Uncle Tito (John) and Ethan's Mom (who hasn't painted in so long, she forgot how to - smile). I ran out of stripe so I had to come up with a plan for one wall.... so he has mahalo - hang ten - aloha on one wall.
Tessa and Tylar's Little Birdy Room - These little birdies just wouldn't let me walk past them at Winner's and with a $7.00 price tag, I just had to find a way to use them. They are even cuter than I thought. The room was already pink so withing 15 mins of my arrival, Tessa and Tylar had a room makeover. The artwork on the walls are just fabric remnants stretched over old canvas that I had. I also have a fuzzy wuzzy alphabet that is supposed to stick on the closet door but they just kept on falling off... a trip to the dollar store for double sided tape will be Kate's job.
The next plan is something for their playroom... the Foley's may be getting a can of paint and some more fun makeover stuff for Christmas! With their very own decorator too, of course.
Wyatt loves the trains and since we were with Grandpa we enjoyed a little visit down the road to see them up close and person at the Port Stanley Terminal.
Jackson custom made this mask for Wyatt ... I'm surprise he wears it! He goes around the house breathing heavy and saying 'I a bobot'.
Last night was another night at the rink for our family of 5. We were there to cheer on Maya and her red team on. She is getting to know where she is supposed to be on the ice, she follows the play and she touches the puck more. Her turns are getting better and stopping is much better and don't always involve falling. She was even called on to take a face-off or two!
