Good Job Gerard!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/02/ns-giant-pumpkin.html

Boys waiting at the Window

Pumpkin Weigh Off at Glad Gardens

Today was the Glad Gardens weigh off for the AVGVG (Annapolis Valley Giant Vegetable Growers). Harry won a first place ribbon, Victoria one second place for her squash and Harry won 5th for his pumpkin! I am so proud! YAY!!!

Yummy Juice!

Tori and her face paint.

The coolest gourd painted like a snake!

And again...

and one more time....

Harry's favourite part the TRACTOR!!! (and it's green!!)

Harry's Pumpkin

Harry's tomato

Gerard and his 1616 pound pumpkin!!! It's a new Nova Scotia record!

Victoria accepting her second place ribbon.

Harry accepting his first place ribbon.

Harry going back up to accept his fifth place ribbon.

It was such a good ending to a day that started out less than perfect!

Dear Husband

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I saw this and thought of you!

Harry is in the Newspaper!

I am so proud of Harry. He was with my dad when a man from the newspaper came up to interview him about his giant pumpkins. Tomorrow's edition of the Kings County Advertiser has a great picture of Harry sitting on one of dads pumpkins! Page 19!

You can follow the link below to view the picture.


http://www.kingscountynews.ca/photo/Giant-veggies-2171625


For my British family, I have picked up some extra copies and will be sending them to you soon.

Pampie and his helpers

Boys in a Basket

Harry wears a Hat

Best Buddies!

Harry and Parker having a blast!

How a 10 year old plays with a box....

Twas the night before school.....

Twas the night before school started,
When all through the town,
The parents were cheering.
It was a riotous sound!
By eight, kids were washed
And tucked into bed...
When memories of homework...filled them with dread!

New pencils, new folders, new notebooks, too!
New teachers, new friends...their anxiety grew!
The parents just giggled when they learned of this fright
And shouted upstairs-...
GO TO BED-IT'S A SCHOOL NIGHT!


I thought this was so cute, and since tomorrow is Victoria's first day of grade 5 I thought it was appropriate!

Thanks to my teacher friend Kat for sending this to me in an email. :)

Happy Birthday Parker!!

Happy 6th Birthday Parker!!!!


We LOVE You!!!!

Benny and the Keyboard

I think...

they must be up to something!

Harry's expression says it all!!!

Daddy And Harry

Two of my favourite pictures from our trip to Lumsden pond back in July.

Here we go again...

I am not even sure where to begin really. For the past two months things have been quiet. Ben seemed to be doing much better and we were able to take some small day trips for a little holiday. This week things slowly reverted to the tangled mess of appointments that our life had been a few month ago.

Tuesday I had calls from nearly every department at the IWK children's hospital. We are gearing up to be at that place every few days again. To be honest this was to be expected. The ramp up to the next surgeries was to start in the fall and with that comes all the appointments to prepare. What I did not expect was it to all come at once.

Yesterday we had a trip to see Dr. H in opthamology (please forgive me I cannot pronounce her name and at the moment I cannot think how to spell it either...her first name is Santa...that I can remember lol). Poor kid went through a long dawn out series of exams, eye drops and lights. His eyes had to be dilated. Things, for now, look normal. He will be seen back in two months ( around mid October) to be rechecked prior to surgery.

Ben will see the cleft palate team next month along with ENT, ID, plastics, and cardiology all at the IWK. He will be seen at least once a week by hearing and speech here in the valley.

Today Ben went to see Dr. Hilliard here in town. It was for a weight check and to investigate a new 'symptom' that has developed.

While Ben has surpassed all his normal motor milestones, his speech is (understandably) delayed. He does show good signs of hearing, which should mean hearing and speech will focus mostly on helping to develop appropriate and understandable speech post repair. His length has really caught up to where it should be, as has his head circumference. His weight however has decided to plateau yet again! I am getting so frustrated. At 8 1/2 months old he weights 7.15 Kg (15 pounds 12 ounces).

Part of the issue is that he is so active. He is burning more calories than before and hasn't greatly increased what he has taken in. The doctor isn't sure where to go from here really. We are going to tried fortified feeds at bedtime, through the night and first thing in the morning when the volume of what he is taking is down as he is sleeping longer.

Lets hope this works and it gets Benny Bean back on track. A problem with weight may cause a delay in the surgery as our plastics guy is pretty picky on how much he should gain prior to the palate surgery.

It's a hard life....

Happy Anniversary

Look at me!

I am so proud of Benny Bean!! Way to go Bean!

The Duck song...

Sooooo this song has been stuck in my head driving me insane, thanks to our 10 year old whom has become obsessed!!!

I feel you all should share in my pain...enjoy :)

Useful Math....

Cutie Bean!

Benny Bean being cute. :)