Birthday Week

In a week my second born is 5! Crazy how time flies!

Riley is almost 5 and seems to know when you're taking a picture and then smiles beautifully.

He loves to laugh which often ends up being at Sawyer's expense, afterall Sawyer gives wonderful reactions to Riley's antics. He is also learning how to read and can read basic books quite well now. He is enjoying playing on a t-ball team and doing gymnastics once a week too.

Riley is my handful. My fiesty boy who loves to bother people and is quit skilled at that ;) But he's also a boy who needs his mom and lots of cuddles and affirmation.......we love him very much.

Brothers

These are from a walk we went on in March.

Blessed

I LOVE living where we live. The main reason that I love it so much is the incredible community of people that has formed into our Victoria family..... really, they are incredible and we are so so so blessed to have them in our lives. I don't have pictures of them to post on here but here are some more reasons why Victoria grew so quickly into being home for us.....the first three pictures were taken March 2 and the last two were taken on Tuesday.

Mountains, ocean and beaches everywhere and flowers that start to sprout in March ...... amazing!

2

Sawyer is 2 (27 months to be more exact). He's SO fun. "Sasr dude it" (Sawyer do it) is and extreeemly common phrase coming out of his mouth. He likes to try to dress himself, which, while being a great skill to master is much quicker when mommy helps. Other things we hear a lot of is the song "O Canada". He loves to play with playdough and do anything that the big boys are doing. He is soooo close to being completely toilet trained :) .... it's mostly nights and napping that we have to work on but we've had a great past few days. He really loves "pottys" and trying to use each and everyone that he can find. Tall or short, big whole or with a potty seat, inside or outside....yup, that's right, he even liked the outhouse at the beach we went to the other day. Silly boy.

He also is learning to "read" like his big brothers. He knows a few letters and will point them out all over the place ... "Look Mom. S for Sasr." "Look Mom. S for Tylr." (when he has spotted a T) "M for Mom. Look Mom, look Mom quick."

He also really enjoys doing anything in the kitchen. The other day I left some ingredients to make bran muffins on the counter but then went to do some laundry....I came back to the kitchen to find Sawyer with all the butter unwrapped and brown sugar scooped very neatly on top of them ;)

Anyways, here are some pictures that I've taken during the last few days. I think he's cute.

Fun on the Mainland

We got to spend last weekend with my family ..... here are some fun faces from those couple of days.

We celebrated Anika, Jerry, and Riley's birthdays as well as Mother's Day.

Riley was too cold to be in this family picture because it was in the shade so he quietly snuck into the sun and none of us realized until he told us later :)

We took the skytrain into Vancouver where I (Corinne) helped out at the gDiaper booth at the Sustainability Expo. Everyone else went on the Sea Bus too and spent some time exploring the Expo

I'm not sure what happened to Cory....

That's my nephew Quinn