Student Of The Month

Cameron received the student of the month in his class for the month of April.

His teacher commented on the certificate that Cameron tries his best, is ready to participate and always follows directions.

I would also like to add that Cameron has a great imagination, is very clever, he loves to teach others things he knows about or things he knows how to do and he is a joy to be around.

Our Bathroom

Doug and I (OK, I'll admit that Doug did most of the work) worked really hard on Friday evening and Saturday morning to get our bathroom looking like this:

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BEFORE

I realize that the before pictures look better that the after....at least I hope they do. But we did work really hard gutting the bathroom. It was a big job to tear everything out and patch some holes. Doug also had to remove the drywall around the tub because of some mold issues. Ah yes, the joy of owning an older home.

The rest of this week we'll spend doing some drywall mudding, painting, and plumbing. Then will come the fun part of putting in the new vanity, linen closet, toilet, tub and flooring.

I'm so thankful that we have a second bathroom in the basement and I am also very thankful that I have a handy husband who can do most of the work himself.

Hoppy Birthday Brandon!!

Brandon turned 2 on Saturday. We had fun celebrating with family and friends. He enjoyed opening his gifts and was pretty good at it too.

Brandon ate his cupcake carefully. He hates getting his hands dirty. He takes after his Grandpa Kroeker.

There were many bunnies who came to the party. Anson being one of them.

Mr. Mischief

Brandon definitely keeps me on my toes. When he has been out of sight for more than a few minutes I know that he is getting into something. Some of his favourite things to do are: unroll the whole roll of toilet paper into the toilet, open DVD cases and use the DVDs as Frisbees, push a chair against the cupboard and help himself to some treats, and on and on the list goes. I know that when he is doing these things he isn't trying to be bad, he is just so busy. I think that I need to find a creative solution to gear all that energy into doing something positive.
Today he once again opened the drawers to his change table and climbed on top, nothing new. I saw him up there and figured that since we didn't have any baby wipes for him to rip up, he wouldn't have anything to get into. Besides once he gets up there he can't get down by himself so I figured I would just be getting a Brandon break.

I did get a bit of a break from him, but as you can see he still found something to get into. There is nothing like diaper cream all over the face. Reminds me of the time Anson did that right before family pictures.

First Missing Tooth

I mentioned in a previous post that Anson had a loose tooth. Well with a little help it finally came out. All he had to do was take a pair of pliers and yank really hard and it came out....

....actually we just used some dental floss. The tooth was pretty loose already, so it just took a little yank.