Tonight I rocked Emerson for awhile and then put her in her bed and left and she didn't cry. Which made me cry! She's growing up so fast, can't believe she's almost two. Usually if I try to put her down awake and leave she cries and I end up back in with her rubbing her back until she's asleep.

I love the picture of my family on Canada Day in front of the parliament building. Charlie is in Jana's carrier and Emerson is asleep in the stroller so you can't see her but it's as close as we got to a good picture of most of us.

Canadian Thanksgiving

This past Monday was Canadian Thanksgiving. We decided to celebrate it on Saturday night so that everyone who had to work on Monday would still be able to come. We had a wonderful evening with 4 of the families on our cul de sac. I don't know that we've ever had a group of people over that was so appreciative of the effort that we put in to Thanksgiving.

Emerson has this interesting tendency to find a guy in any gathering and latch on to them. I think we might be in trouble when she gets older!

Some random pictures

Not that much interesting stuff going on in our lives right now. Emerson isn't sleeping well at all. She takes forever to fall asleep (or at least I'm pretty sure she's asleep) and then as soon as we close the door to her room she screams bloody murder and is awake for a long time again.

Chad took the K and P camping Saturday night. I haven't seen pictures yet but I assume there are some so I'll try to get them up when I see them.

K at Carowinds

We went on an apple "picking" field trip. Not too exciting when you're picking apples from a barrel instead of a tree. I had hoped to actually make it up to the mountains this year for really apple picking but I just realized we might have missed the season for it.

K and P held hands the whole time at Carowinds. It makes me so happy to see them be so sweet to each other.

Petting a horseshoe crab at Discovery Place last week.

Chad, so tired from camping, taking a nap Sunday afternoon.

I know it's not a clear picture but this is E saying STOP while I was trying to get a picture of her.

Why do kids love fountains so much? They would stay at the fountain at the mall forever if I let them.

Still in the 90s here, and that's still the forecast for the next 10 days. Apparently we're close to breaking a record with that. Maybe this winter we can break some snow records :)

Click on the following link for pictures from the kids birthday party.

http://photographybychadwick.com/viewing/?slideshowID=80410

Password: Emerson

Chad keeps telling me I need to update the blog. We were so busy this summer that it just flew by. I couldn't believe how quickly Labour Day came and summer was over. Although you wouldn't know it by the temperature here. It's still in the 90s! Here's hoping we get some cooler weather very soon.

After coming back from our first trip to Canada, I spent the next few weeks getting ready for the fall/winter consignment sale. It was the first weekend in August. We spent the 2 weeks after that getting everything finished up with the sale and then left to go to my mom's cottage in northern Ontario for 2 weeks. We had a very relaxing time and enjoyed the cooler temperatures. We got back Labour Day weekend and have been trying to get in to some kind of every day routine which consists mostly of school, speech therapy, play dates, and trying to keep the house in some sort of semi-clean state.

This weekend we're having a pool party for Kennedy and Parker's birthday at my dad's house. We usually do their party together in the middle of August since their birthdays are so close together and right now they have all the same friends anyways. Plus it saves our relatives from having to come down for 2 different birthdays a month apart. It's always soooo hot when we do their party so we thought it would be nice to have it at my dad's and cool off in the pool.

Here are some pictures from our summer. I'll try to get more posted soon.

We spent as much time as we could in water this summer.

The kids love the beach and the pool and the lake.

Kennedy turned 6! She looks so much older than she did even last Christmas.

Emerson loves to dress up.

Never far from his sword or pirate ships.

Just like her mommy! I used to love drinking pickle juice. Gross, I know.

Lara came down and was an enormous help with my sale. Chris came down Friday-Sunday and he also helped out a lot.

Parker's birthday present - pirate ships

Our little man turned 4 years old!