Temperance Street Times

11:51 PM Christmas Day.  Just under the wire… Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

As always – Click on the thumbnail to see full size version.

Cream Cheese!  Otherwise its all just been the usual scene at this end…

Nathaniel’s first Halloween!  What fun.  He opted to dress up as ‘BatBi’ – aka Bat Baby.  Yes recycling Thomas’ first costume, but there was one big difference.  Nathaniel is walking.  Thomas was not.  A whole different BatBi emerged this year.  For example,  there was a Fridge caper midday. ‘Grapes?  No I don’t have any grapes in my mouth…’ As always click on the thumbnail to see a full size version of the pics.

Thomas on the other hand put together a great Fireman Thomas costume.  With all the fixings including an axe, walkie talkie, fire extinguisher, hat, flashlight, and even his own fire engine… I’ll have to come up with more cost effective costumes in the future!!

As we were walking out the door to go trick or treating, Thomas suddenly says ‘Mom where’s your costume?’ ‘Why aren’t you wearing it?”.  Thus I was forced to run upstairs and improvise something quickly yielding a somewhat ‘frazzled’ looking witch.  I thought the baggy long underwear was especially effective! Imbaw stayed home and gave out candy – we had a total of 27 kids.  Too much snow and H1N1.  We hit a total of 7 houses and that was it – home and straight to bed…Imbaw and I stayed up and watched ‘Twilight’ the movie.  It was cute – and not too scary for me!

Today at 1:30PM at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon.

Click on the image to see the full size version.  Imbaw was one of 103 people to pledge allegiance to the Queen.  I think he was probably the only American…

Thomas’ drawing skills are escalating these days to the point that he is actually drawing specific things.  Here are a few of his best efforts so far.  As always, click on the thumbnail to see a full size version.

In case you weren’t able to distinguish from the actual drawings Thomas indicated to us that: The first is a refrigerator and a boat.  The second is a watermelon and the third is a Kayak.  At the same time his finger painting skills are improving as well in that he now chooses his colors, applies the paint himself and then obviously does the painting himself.  In this particular one he used a variety of techniques including single finger smearing, full hand splats and as an additional medium – paper towel blotting.  When he was done he said ‘I’m DONE’.