Fathers Day

Our Fleming Family gathered at the Killarney Beach for fathers day. It was beautiful and warm. What a perfect day. Brook and I made a card for Trev for fathers day. We made a list for him too:

What I love about my Dad:
1- That Dad goes to church
2-When he is out in the sandbox
3- Dad is fun out in the playground
4- jumping on the tampoline
5- I like his face
6- Playing "peek"
7 - When Dad "smooch" me
8- When he shovels dirt
9- Drinking his slurpee

I couldn't get a tenth item out of her, but she did pretty well. Most of those answers make sense.

Around our place this week

Jack is loving the jolly jumper. I thought he was till too young for it when I set it up this week, but I guess I was wrong. He figured it out right away and loves it! He giggles and jumps around and talks to the garbage can (which has since been relocated). I have to remind Brook that Jack is not ready for swinging around. She wants soooo badly to be involved in his jolly jumping fun.

Can you believe how tall Brook is getting? She has really shot up in the past few months. All her pants are too short. Good thing we are getting into shorts and skirt weather. The only problem is that she is so clutzy. Her knees are all scraped up and her legs are constantly covered in bruises. Oh well, she'll grow out of it I'm sure. Im beginning to wonder if she is going to get the Fleming height?


I just like this picture. Jack was "gooooing" to Brook. It looks like they are having a special little conversation.

I hate all the rain. It seems like it rains every other day here, but my flowerbeds are loving it! My Irises are the size of ... iduno ... BIG flowers. Even though it has nothing to do with me, I am feeling like quite the gardener this year.

Brooks First Ride

Be still me beating heart. Brook rode Shadow this evening. I have no idea what changed her mind. I have no idea why all of the sudden she had the confidence, but she did. Usually she is petrified when we go out to the farm, but this evening something changed. She grabbed one of the brushes and insisted on helping me brush Shadow. (Shadows knees are very nicely groomed) She talked to Shadow and the other horses non stop. I had to keep her from basically walking under the horse. After putting Brook in the saddle I figured the first few steps would likely scare her, but she giggled. "Mommy, it's bumpy." Shadow called to the other horses and again, I thought that would be the end for Brook, but after I explained that Shadow was just talking to the other horses she was fine. Eventually I got sick of walking and I swung up behind her in the saddle and we went for a ride down the road. Brook loved it, and so did I. A warm sunny evening riding a great horse with my little girl. Nothing better.

When Brook was born I always wondered if she would like horses. I have to admit I was quite disappointing when she was afraid of them right from the start, but I had accepted that horses were just not her thing and I shouldn't push it. I know it was only one ride, but I really enjoyed sharing something that I love with her.

(I wrote this post yesterday, but couldn't post it until this evening.)

Trees

When we came home from our trip to Pinawa the weather was awful. The wind was apparently upwards of 70 - 80KM. One of our trees was down when we got home. Thankfully it fell parallel to the house and not towards it. After taking a good look at the others in our yard we decided to get rid of them all. We had been thinking about it ever since we moved in, but we never had the motivation to spend the money to get it done. We did two trees ourselves, but the other 3 were likely about 60 ft tall, so we hired a tree service to remove them. We are glad we paid some professionals to do it. It is not like on the farm where you can cut it down, drag it away with the tractor and burn it in the middle of the yard. They had to block off the street for a good portion of the morning to get it done. Our yard looks totally different, and now it is a little more safe.

Before

After

May and June

I guess I haven't updated the blog in a few weeks. Here is what has happened.

Jack started eating "solid" food. Some of it got into his stomach.

We went to wilderness edge retreat center in Pinawa for the Manitoba MB pastors retreat. It was fun to visit with other pastors and be away for a few days. I got to sit in the hot tub with Karen Bock during a lightning storm. It was dark, the water was warm and the rain was cold. Very fun. Oh ya, the speaker was good too. We left Brook with Mom and Dad Pauls and took Jack with us. Things went really well. Brook had loads of fun with Grandma and Grandpa and Jack did really well with all the traveling. He even loved the babysitters.

I took the kids on our first roadtrip without Trevor. We went to go visit Beth and Derek for a few days. We had lots of fun. We went to the Steinback MCC and found a change table for baby Reimer. It was fun to just hang out and play. Again, the kids traveled really well.

It has finally started to warm up around here. I planted a few flowers and we have actually made it to the park a few times. Brook and I have a slight tan. Trev started playing baseball on wednesday evenings. He has 1 more bible study night and about 3 weeks of youth left and then it is summer time! Yay! I love the summer schedule where he is home in the evenings.

We had some bible school friends come visit us this weekend. We had so much fun. I took a picture of our kids together and I thought it was so cute that I would post it. In 10 years that picture will be really fun to look at.

It is May

It is May and we have not been able to get outside much because it has been so cold. We have had to be creative to keep ourselves busy. A cold boring evening and my husbands sense of humor is what created these following pictures. don't worry, it is washable marker. Yes, I know I will likely be washing mustaches off of Jack courtesy of Brook. (All permanent markers in our house have been under lock and key since these pictures were taken)

For Youth Trev was to dress up as a super hero. He went as Luigi. Does having the word "super" in your name make you a super hero?
Although it has been cold, we've been out on the trampoline. Ive got lots of static haired pictures of Brook already, but she looks pretty cute here.

Around our place

Tickling Jack Video

Some more random Brook things:

She told me the other day "Sorry Mom, I can't talk right now."

While in the middle of a conversation Brook interrupted me and said, "I have to go home now", turned around and walked away.

Trevor was playing with his ipod. Brook walked up to him and said "Dad, I play with your pod?"

If I ask her if she can do something for me she says "Ya, I think so".

I told her it was supper time and she said "Mom, that's a great idea".

After coming out of the bathroom the other day she asked me if I had used to potty, when I answered "yes", she cheered for me.

She asked if she could have an egg for desert yesterday. She was angry when we got her a raw egg from the fridge. (She wanted a cream egg.)

She is very confused why we call Jack a big boy, yet he is the baby.

She loves fancy dresses, Cinderella, and wedding pictures. I get asked several times a day if I am married and then she wants to see our wedding photo album again. She loves the white dress.

Trev asked her what her dolls name was the other day and she said "Butter". We still don't know where that came from, so the doll is named Butter.

There was a piece of fuzz floating in the bath water and she nearly launched herself out of the tub to get away from it. Naked kids are fast!