Xmas....coming soon!

Well, seems I left my camera at the cabin with ALL the pics from the past few weeks on it. Sadly won't arrive at casa Nielsen until the 9th when Mimi and Papa C come to town. Hopefully everyone had a wonderful holiday and I will post ASAP in the NEw Year!

December so far...

Mmmmmm, my favorite time of the year! Food, fun, wine and lots of family and friends! Looking forward to having Christmas here at Casa Nielsen with my folks and the extended Day clan and then three days at the cabin for more fun with the Nielsen/Millers.

Hamming it up at the Days. Griffin and my namesake Little Christine (LC) have a mutual love of eating and spent the bulk of the evening beside, on or underneath the buffet table. I also love how cuddly LC is - heck, if you have a lap or 2 free arms, she'll be in em!

NEW Kids Christmas Party. As my dad mentioned in his Xmas newsletter our little Griff is reckless almost to a fault these days - he had absolutely no problem keeping up with the older kids at the gymnastics party, got tossed in the foam pit, walked the balance beam (alone when I wasn't wacthing), and mastered the trapeze on his first go (look at that smile!).

I wonder who is getting a lump of coal this year in his stocking?

Xmas party at "New Escuela" - J & G started 2x week at a new daycare this fall and they LOVE it. I think Jasper loves being the oldest (and biggest) kid and they both love all the outdoor time.

Glad my baby still tries to be a baby sometimes!

The best present we will get this year...THE TREE IS GONE!! Check out this view now!! Thank you District of North Vancouver!

Seriously...

Ok, here's the excuse of the month as to why I have been not only so neglecful with the blogging, but also with the photo taking in general. Just checked the camera and we only took about 8 shots ALL MONTH of the boys. Oops. Promise to make up for it next month of course with oodles of Xmas festivities....

So, the big news of the month was that I became a business owner - AGAIN! I bought the license to Momcafe Vancouver and the North Shore and am SO EXCITED about this opportunity. This will definitely challenge my admitteded weaknesses as I have little to know experience in sales and advertising and revenue reporting etc. but it feels way better to know its my own sales and advertising and revenue and not someone else's I am working on! Check me out at http://www.momcafenetwork.com

Winter came early to the Shore! It takes about 3 hours for me to fully outfit the boys in their snow gear only to have them come in after 10 minutes because they are cold, but alas, I will get faster at it!

Halloween!

Halloween 2010 starring....Hannah Montana! Ballerina Princess! Monkey 1 and Monkey 2! Buzz Lightyear! Little Chicken! and the cutest little wee Bumblebee you have ever seen!

Griffin actually sort of "got" the concept this year...but the end of the first cul-de-sac he would say "house, knock, treat" and would get heaps of candy because he is so darn cute!!

My 2 Burthday - By Griffin

I had lotts of fun on my burthday. I maid shure to get up xtra urly - 6am - so I wood not miss any fun. Doo-doo and I had a bulloon partie in the morning with Mimi!

Then mummy and daddy tuk me to Crash Crawlys - it wuz fun! I started on the babie slides but it wuz too eazy for me so I mooved on to the big boy stuf!!

I tuk daddy with me into the maize - he thought it smelld like pee!

Oops. Face plant.

I tryed to go on the quad bikes, but they said i wuz too littl still. Doo-doo and Meely went ryding and had fun. I settld for a car ryde with Barney, sigh.

I tuk mummy into the maize too. Hur knees hurt, but she wuz brave!

I liked the scary hal-o-wean train, but I was a littl scared to drive at furst. Then I wuz very brave and rode all by myself - choo choo!

My frend Chubbins (Baby Eli) came tu my partie too!!

A fun day!

I lik sushi! Yum! I put lots in my mowth and make mummy mad - hee!

I luv my choo choo cake! Thank u Mimi!!

Prezent time! I liked the boxes best!

Mummy and me tuk some fun piktures!

Sea u on my 3 burthday!! Luv Griffin xxxoooo

Griffin at 2

My sweet little treasure bear is turning two today. Queue the tissues for me as my little baby turns into a little boy. And what a little boy he is turning out to be:

- The biggest daredevil - he has already chalked up numerous scars and pretty much can't get through a day without some new bump or bruise (or in one terrible case a lost fingernail in the door!!), but oh is he tough!
- A huge lover of Nina. And who is Nina you ask? Not my future daughter-in-law, but Thomas the Train! Guess he is still having some issues pronouncing his name!
- A slang talker! Speaking of mis-pronounced names - Jasper, aka "Ah-Doo-Doo" to Griffin is actually being called "Jas-puh" on occasion, but mostly still plain old "Doo-doo"
- A LOUD communicator! Griffin's favorite way to communicate these days is to yell, and yell LOUDLY, we aren't sure if its from his ear troubles, or he's just figuring out all the ways to drive his parents nuts on a daily basis.
- A big talker! Griffin is picking up words and phrases like a sponge, he is especially fond of "Dare-go" (translation: "There you go" accompanied by a hug), and "Where's doo-doo?" (accompanied by a shoulder shrug)
- A dancer! Oh how Griffin loves to dance! Jay-z, Coldplay, Neon Trees, Baa-Baa-Black Sheep - you name it and he will rock it!
- A scholar! Griffin has taken to "baby-school" and daycare like a superstar - in fact his teachers say that he walks around like he owns the place most of the time. he has also mastered his numbers up to 18, and when done to song can pretty much recite his entire alphabet!
- A swimmer! Griff swims like a fish and we are thinking will soon pass his big brother in the lesson levels - poor Doo-doo!
- And lucky for me, mama is still his number one favorite person, although he might be battling with Doo Doo over who gets to marry me : )

October Round Up

Ok, this is truly getting out of hand...nary a post for the entire month of October and a quick check of the camera shows nary a photo has been taken either so Thanksgiving 2010 at the cabin goes undocumented on film, but good times were had by all the boys with quad and bike riding and a yummy turkey cooked over an open flame in the "bell" for an entire day - so deelish

A little pre-halloween face-painting fun - MEOW!

Griffin broke with the Nielsen boys family tradition and breezed through is first haircut. Just plopped in into "nina" an away we went!

October graced us with some unbelieveably gorgeous weather which we took full advantage of with lots of missions to parks, playgrounds and Granville Island

Poor treasure bear had his second surgery in a year for his ears...luckily not the hellish 4 hour delay of last year, just a mildly painful 1.5 hour delay this year, fingers crossed that he won't need another!

We Outta Be in Pictures - Sept 2010

We had a fantastic outdoor shoot in early September with Sacha Mullen...Griffin was less than cooperative but Jasper was a star and she managed to capture some great shots!!