Camden said....

I spilled some of my milk on the floor at dinner time last night. 

Camden saw this and then tells me an interesting story. "Daddy dropped the noodles all over the floor and said Jesus Christ, f*cking hell." 

I managed not to laugh cause I don't want him saying that again!

Birthday Party Prep

Camden and I decided on a Monster theme for his third birthday this year.  I had been planning and working on party prep for some time, but still was far behind when the big day arrived.  Isn't that always how things work out?

I found most of these ideas online using bits and pieces from different birthday parties I found.

Birthday pinata.  Cam was thrilled with this and his only request is that the pinata have lollipops!  I made it with pull strings, 9 were fake and just pulled right out when tugged and one was the winning string.  It had a knot in it and when pulled the whole bottom came off. 

Finished Monster Pinata

I like to make Camden a birthday t-shirt each year.  I used a freezer paper stencil and fabric paint for this one.

I saw a lot of monster parties with Monster Adoptions.  I bought some fleece end cuts and made some monsters of our own.  Each one different and unique, just like the kids at the party.  Adoption certificates were a must!

Monster prints, posters and pom poms!

 

Cake!!  (I don't have progress pictures of the orange monster because I only had a hour to decorate it before people arrived for the party!)

Monster Games - Pin the Eye on the Monster and a colouring wall

Winter Storm - March 26

We were walloped with Winter this year.  Back to back storms had us buried in snow that we are yet to be rid of.

Here is our driveway before the storm on the 26th.

Here is the driveway during and after the storm....

The snow was so high in this part of the driveway, it almost covered the entire snowblower!

I can just picture the poor snowman who belongs to these twig arms.  His head is buried!

A video I took during the storm.  This doesn't do it justice though, the wind became worse as the sun went down.  It was awful!  The drive home from work was so scary as I had to go through whiteouts.  Next time, I am staying home from work!

Zoo Day

The Moncton Zoo began opening on Sundays in March.  Camden and I went on a day that was supposed to be warm and sunny.  It turned snowy and blowy but we enjoyed ourselves anyway.  The cool air perked up a lot of the animals and they were quite active.

Black bear

Ducks

Black Jaguar

Some ponies that you can ride in the summer

Toucan

It may be hard to tell, but the little babies are on their Moms back

This is a Uromastyx, he crawled up the log to see Camden

One of two Otters

Mandrill eating breakfast 

The larger of the two Mandrill's

This white handed Gibbon was eating breakfast off her belly

This baby squirrel monkey was sucking on his thumb.