Sadie & Max's blog

Christmas

Flushing fish

Here is Sadie the kitty up in a tree looking for birds.

After our cat-tasrophy we decided on fish for Sadie's birthday. So when we got home from Florida we went out and got 4 little fish. Unfortunately within a week they all had Ich (a paracite) and we lost 3 of them in about 4 days.

When the first one died I showed it to Sadie and we went together to the toilet to say goodbye and flush it down. Of course I throw it in and flush and instead of going down the water comes up (apparently Max had been dumping paper in...AGAIN).

So there I am plunging the toilet with the dead fish bobbing up and down with each plunge and Sadie screaming "He's alive mom...looks he's moving". I had to explain no he's dead its just the plunger until finally he went down.

Then she told me "maybe he will come alive again when he gets to the poopy lake". No sweety, dead is dead. "Okay".

Florida Dec 11

This was our 3rd annual trip to Ft. Myers Beach to meet up with the old London crew (Lara, Jim, Genevieve and Jasaon and kids). We had an amazing time. The last 2 years the weather has not co-operated but this year it was perfect every day.

The kids had a blast swimming and digging in the sand all day. They were asleep in minutes every night. The adults had fun eating, drinking and singing karaoke while they slept.

Sadie's 5th Birthday

Sadie had her 5th birthday party a couple weeks early at a local yoga studio. My favorite part was having them all in savasana at the end of it.

Sadie's favorite part was eating cake on the floor.

Sadie insisted on a unicorn/fairy cake this year and did all the decorating herself (I did the icing and she did the rest).

Thanksgiving 2011

Austin in Nov

Sadie and Laney had a blast together, especially with Auntie Amanda around. And Max got to rock out with Solly.

Cat-tastrophy

We had a cat-tastrophy this week. Sadie has been asking for a cat since she was 2 and Ryan told her she could have one when she was 5. Sadie has not forgotten. So we went to the SPCA and when we were just about to leave with 2 cats Sadie had an eye swell shut. So we left the SPCA catless and looked into hypo allergenic breeds.

We went to a number of breeders and Sadie was fine with all the bengal's we met so we decided to go with a Bengal. We had the cat home for all of 5 minutes before they were both covered in hives. Max who has never reacted to a cat before was by far the worst. Unfortunately we had to fall in love with Goldie before giving her back to the breeder. Fish?

First day of pre-school

Max got to start school on Halloween. What a fun, party day. Pre-school starts in Newton at 2 years and 9 months, so today was the day. He made this great hat and was so proud of it.

He went in with barely a good-bye and started playing with the kids. When I went to pick him up the teacher told me he didn't cry once. So now every day that I go to pick him up, and ask how his day was, he tells me "I didn't cry mom, I didn't cry."

Halloween

The kids were all into candy this year. They had fun going door to door. Sadie kept asking me if her make-up was smudged.

Her snow white dress was mine when I was a kid.

Snow in Oct

The kids love the first snow! Sadie was trying to get me to go out before breakfast on Saturday morning.

This is her snow slide.