A couple more.  Charlie's really starting to laugh more and Isabel wanted a video of her playing her "whistle".

Hey Mum.. here's a couple little ones of Charlie and his hat so you can see his face better.

And finally, a couple little videos and poor little Isabel in a snit after we made a snowman... er snow"blob" more like it.

Merry Christmas everyone and Mum I hope this is a little like being with us today.  

Love, Stuart Debby Isabel and Charlie...

Here's us and Isabel.  With all this snow I thought we needed to be watchful for looters.. Ha Ha.

Well we on the west coast finally got a winter.  The locals tell us they haven't seen snow like this since '96.

We got about another 1 1/2" after most of these photos were taken.   The first photo was taken yesterday.

Sadie had her first Christmas concert this afternoon. Pictured are Ximena, her friend from Mexico and Espella, another classmate.

Here's a picture of Isabel and Charlie watching a show.  Isabel was telling him what was going on. He's getting pretty big.

Next are the latest renditions of "Old MacDonald's farm".  She's been watching Mummy's dance show which must be where she picked up the pose and the thank you's...

Sadie and Matthew love the musical instruments Jen and Mike brought on their visit. Our household was never quite but we've reached a new level of chaos. Jeff and I owe you two!

American Thanksgiving in Canada. Jen and Mike came up for a fantastic visit and got to enjoy the cold weather and 2 unrelenting kids.

Here's some more of Isabel's art.  This is a series called "Suns"  

I particularly like the 3 eyed one.

They really look like Tim Burton characters. I didn't post these because I didn't even know she drew them.  Isabel told me Bubbie drew them... I guess you can't trust a 2 1/2 year old.

I'm really impressed and didn't even believe she was capable of this as about 2 weeks ago she asked me to draw a sun and her copy of it was no where near as accomplished as these.

Man she's a damn bright kid..

The painting she did at school.  She seems really proud of it and likes it hanging up.  She calls it "Blue"

The light art was something I would show her but I don't think she understands it yet.  I will keep trying.

Well not to bore you but here's more jolly jumper videos.  I just wanted to show you that he's finally got it and really giving it.  Also he's taken to LOUD screaming.  I don't think he's unhappy but I'm not sure he's actually happy though...

He'll go like that for 15-20 mins straight and in that little section he's a little restrained.  The screaming gets louder and a little more frantic near the end as you can hear in the second video. Man... my ears hurt.

Also I wanted to share with you Isabel's family portrait.  The "person"

 on the far left is sometimes Charlie and sometimes Bubbie.  The next is mommy, I'm the potatoe with the stick arms and legs, and on the right is Isabel.  The big circles within mommy and daddy are our belly buttons.

Charlie really likes music but Isabel will be an artist for sure.  She loves to paint and draw and is pretty good with her control.  She likes to draw circles and is getting quite good at it.

Charlie likes his Jolly Jumper.  He's taken to it a fair bit younger than Isabel but it suits his flailing well.  He's really starting to get the hang of it.  It's funny how different 2 siblings can be.

Well, it's been a while and Mum's been bugging me for photos of Charlie so here's a couple photos from Halloween and a few videos.  Charlie's just started eating rice mush and he really is taking to it.  We can barely get Isabel to eat and you can see how agitated Charlie gets in between bites and how tough it is for Debby to get the spoon away from him.  He's so different from Isabel.  Also he flails about a lot and I like how he grabs my hand to get the food.  He was even holding the spoon on his own but he kept whacking himself in the head.  He did feed himself a bit though.

He's also really smiley and is ticklish, even to the point of giggling.  I will get a video of that later.

Oh yeah, check out the size of the mitts on the little guy.  I'm already giving him piano lessons.

In this last video, Isabel thinks they're posing for a photo so she tells Charlie to smile and uses the pillow to wipe the drool from his mouth.

Sadie learned this in school. I caught her changing from her school dress into her play clothes.

Travolta's got nothing on this kid!

And more photos from the wedding.  

This is long overdue and I apologize to Jenny and Mike.  Here's a few photos from the wedding.

You guys look really happy and we had a great time. 

Here's a few more videos of Isabel and Charlie.  Isabel in the cape is saying "hocus pocus" or rather "pocus pocus" and turning around to make herself invisible.  She learned this from her show "Little Bear".  She was doing it longer before but she loves to watch herself on videos and in mirrors and such so she gets distracted when she knows she's putting on a show.

We got her to sit for a posed shot with Charlie the other day and she's really taken to sitting and holding him.

I like how he smiles after she kisses him.

Also it's hard to believe she's 2 1/2 years old and he's just 2 months (as of yesterday).  Man he's a big boy.

She likes to call him "Charlie boy"

Out of the blue Isabel asked to play the guitar.  She's strummed it a couple times in the past but never really held it to play...  Then she started singing!  I'm just glad we caught the moment.

Our budding star... and her rendition of "Old MacDonald's Farm".  Hear the cows!

Hi, This is your Mothers run in with a biggggggggggggggg black cow. Notice the cow pattie on the hood. Hoping to get a new car out of this. By the way I'm fine.

Our little Italian future soccer player....









Delia with her soccer teammates at a tournament. She scored 6 goals out of 10 and had an assist.

Andrew is trying out for the Dartmouth Destroyers, we are hopeful he will make the team.
This is a very recent picture of Sofia. She looks very focused just like her daddy.



Sofia in Montreal with her cousin Matthew.