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<br />Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-4183512986529153942014-02-12T17:28:00.001-05:002014-02-22T15:15:44.671-05:00Christophe's Skylander Collection For his birthday Christophe has asked for Skylanders and only Skylanders. To make life easier for the gift buyers I made a list of all the ones that he already owns.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knockout Terrafin</span></li>
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<br />Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-63682081802543880152012-08-21T09:21:00.002-04:002012-08-21T09:21:47.260-04:00Skate Video #2<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XdwXjwHJZKI" width="560"></iframe>Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-8457509423440589562012-08-08T22:16:00.001-04:002012-08-08T22:16:27.822-04:00Six Months in Six Minutes - Skate<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EoFAW2frWXc?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-79432920214920601992012-06-09T12:21:00.000-04:002012-06-09T12:21:00.375-04:00BYE BYE TREE - THE CHOPPING DOWN IN IMAGES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Meet our new addition Fluffy the dwarf hamster...</div>
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One of my biggest challenges as a parent is to get C Monster to eat fruits and vegetables. To make it less arbitrary to him when I say "you can not have more bread until you eat vegetables", I decided to make him an interactive food guide. I used the canadian food guide as my example. They have a section where one can create a <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/myguide-monguide/index-eng.php" target="_blank">personal food guide</a>. I used this to determine how much food a 4-year-old boy should be eating. </div>
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For the interactive guide I just drew and coloured a chart on a piece of paper and then printed pictures of the food groups off the internet. I cut each one out and attached a magnet to each. Voila: a food guide simple enough a 4-year-old gets it.</div>
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The house rules for the food guide are:</div>
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The C Monster had his first dance recital on Saturday. A 6 minute hip hop dance routine. He looked so cute. </div>
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We packed a picnic and headed down wagon in tow to the lake for supper and fireworks.</div>
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All that said I have to say the city puts on a pretty good firework show at Ashbridge Bay. And cuddling up with my little C Monster on the sand while watching the fireworks and hearing him say wow, ahh, beautiful mama and start spontaneously clapping is well worth it.</div>
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I think it took C Monster 5 minutes after the fireworks to pass out in the wagon. He was so tired he fell asleep eating the rest of his supper I had to fish out sandwich bits from his mouth.</div>
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I have to say this one took me by surprise. When I purchased a box of reduced <a href="http://www.weetabix.ca/#home" target="_blank">Weetabix </a>the last person I pegged as eating them was C Monster. Here he is enjoying Weetabix with vanilla yogurt and a little honey. He also likes them with just a little milk.</div>
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I wanted to also take a minute to talk about cereal in general. I am very particular about what cereal we buy in our house. Our food is no longer 100% organic that is a decision we had to make when we decided to purchase a bigger house. Bigger house = bigger mortgage = cutting cost in various locations. However we do not buy food that is full of additives and chemicals. So what do I look for in a cereal?</div>
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<li>It can not contain any preservatives or ingredients that one would not find in a well stocked kitchen pantry</li>
<li>It is on sale. As cereal is a treat in our house we only buy it when it is on sale. </li>
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If have to say once you follow all these rules there is not much left out there one can buy; so I was delighted when C Monster decided that he LOVED Weetabix.</div>
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I read a post on <a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/re-grow-green-onions-165576" target="_blank">apartment therapy</a> about 3 weeks ago about re-growing green onions inside your home. I decided to try it. Here is the final results after I transplanted my newly sprouted green onions to there more permanent home - a planter from purchased from <a href="http://urbanpot.ca/" target="_blank">Urban Pot</a>. </div>
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On a side note I have to say I was very pleased with the customer service and product from Urban Pot and will definitely look at them again in the future for my potting needs.</div>
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I also added some green onion seeds to the pot in hopes to increase my yield of onions, here they are just 5 days later sprouting.</div>
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We left extra early so we could have a picnic lunch and play in there outdoor playground before they opened for the afternoon. We should have hung out at the park that is just across the street until Playground Paradise opened as the playground was pretty much just a climbing structure and a bit to complex for Sallyanne daughter. However it's a pretty cool climbing structure that C Monster & H really enjoyed.<br />
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Once we got in at Playground Paradise everyone had a ball. I would post picture but I can't as no cameras are aloud inside. On the way home we just missed our bus, meaning we got stuck in rush hour traffic. There was kind gentlemen that gave his seat to C Monster and H. The picture below is of them pretending to sleep squished together on a single TTC bus seat. G, Sallyanne daughter, was comfortable in her stroller sleeping for the trip home.</div>
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BTW - H is the little girl I looked after last summer, Sallyanne is now her care provider.</div>Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-71247734138277983312012-05-22T11:42:00.000-04:002012-05-22T11:42:00.949-04:00BATHROOM ACCENT COLOUR - SELECTEDWhen it comes to home decor it takes me forever to select anything for my house. For a client I can do it in no time; myself well it took us 6 months to select a bunk bed, but that is for another post. This post is about the main bathroom.<br />
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When we moved in last December the house had no mirrors; we have been taking our time selecting mirrors for the bathrooms. In January we selected and purchased the one for the main bathroom; however before putting it up we want to paint the bathroom. Selecting the accent colour took me another 4 months. I decided I wanted to paint one wall to match the accent colour of the towels and bathmat. The image below is the winning colour. After bringing home 12 different towels and returning them all we found this one at <a href="http://www.Simons.ca/?gclid=COWPlPbakbACFcdlOgodcWQuoQ" target="_blank">Simons</a> it was exactly the colour I was imagining in my mind. Now to make the trip to <a href="http://www.paintdepot.com/" target="_blank">Paint Depot</a> to have them colour match it for my paint.<br />
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I almost forgot you are probably curious as to what mirror we selected. <a href="http://www.electricmirror.com/products/lighted-mirrors/trinity/trinity.htm" target="_blank">Trinity from Electric Mirror</a>.</div>
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<br />Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-2660772360964131672012-05-21T11:12:00.002-04:002012-05-21T11:29:12.168-04:00PEAR POMEGRANATE POPSICLESAs summer approaches I really get into popsicle making. I find this is a great way to get C monster to eat more fruit. The flavour of the week for popsicle is pear pomegranate.<br />
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It's very easy just mix in with emersion blender or regular blender 1/2 cup pure no sugar added pomegranate juice with 2 cups packed no sugar added canned pears.<br />
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I make my own canned pears to avoid the BPA in the can liners; if you do not want to use store bought pears just measure out about 4 cup pears and cook them until soft. You can boil them in a little pear juice or water. You can bake them in the oven. Use your imagination.<br />
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Once the mixture is complete just pour them into your favourite popsicle mould freeze overnight and enjoy!<br />
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One of the many home reno projects we have on the go is C Monster's bedroom. We recently added a black out blind from <a href="http://www.theshadestore.com/product2/dwell-laminated-roller-shade" target="_blank">the Shade Store</a> that matches with his <a href="http://www.dwellstudio.com/kids-room-decor/dwellstudio-collections/transportation/transportation-multi-duvet-set.html" target="_blank">bedding</a>. We let the Monster select the style; he chose a rolling blind.</div>Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-26831589614457585602012-05-12T08:43:00.000-04:002012-05-12T08:43:00.119-04:00BACK YARD RENO PART 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
You ask what have we been up to? Well as the weather warms I have been spending my time in the back yard working hard. I spent the 2 months of "winter" in our new home trying to plot out the best location for a garden. For this year it is along the east side of the back yard. This plot of dirt originally had cedars running along the fence; they were only a few years old so this made them prime targets for successful transplant to someone else yard. Thanks to<a href="http://www.freecycle.org/" target="_blank"> Freecycle</a> and <a href="http://toronto.craigslist.ca/" target="_blank">Craigs List </a>they were all gone in about 2 weeks; all 64 of them. We kept 3 that we relocated to the back of the yard to create a visual barrier. Eventually behind the cedars will be a potting bench and a compost bin.</div>
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I know some of you are thinking why remove all the cedars they were hiding that ugly chain link fence well we have other plans that will hide that fence in a few years. This includes hopefully a new fence and some berry bushes and trees, but for now taking the Cedars out gave me a great temporary space to plant vegetables for the next few years. </div>
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One of my favourite spring home decor touches is to cut branches from blooming trees and make floral arrangements with them. It's a great inexpensive way to have flowers in the house and well at the same time you are trimming your trees. <br />
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C Monster also made his very own arrangement for his room. His vase is a tiny pear juice bottle he got a few months ago at a restaurant and as he put it "mama it's so cute and tiny I need to keep it because it's cute like me" Ever since he brought it home I have been trying to place a flower in it regularly; I think right now it has a tulip from our front yard but in this picture it has a matching floral arrangement to the one I made with branches.<br />
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<br />Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-36363604962766045062012-04-14T18:05:00.000-04:002012-04-14T18:05:00.363-04:00GETTING ORGANIZED - CLOSET<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is another post in my series of getting organized. With a new house comes trying to organize all your things so they work in your new space. I have a lot of jewellery, mostly thanks to my amazing husband that has good taste in jewellery. I need a place that is easy to store it and in view or I forget what I have and end up just wearing the same 3 pairs of earrings. I have a great little jewellery box that is about 10 years old that I have totally outgrown so I started thinking what could I use for my jewellery.<br />
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A few years back I had seen at the One of a Kind Show in toronto a wooden jewellery rack by Bijoux Display Company that you can hang on your wall. I never got it because at the old house I really did not have room for it, but now that we have moved it works perfectly in my closet. And voila all my jewellery perfectly organized and easy to find.<br />Pierrettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09931216335238588899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2543833790167051577.post-74281408670207322492012-04-13T16:44:00.000-04:002012-04-14T09:31:55.544-04:00GEOCACHING WITH C MONSTER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After reading a blog post on <a href="http://inhabitat.com/how-to-go-geocaching-with-your-kids/" target="_blank">inhabitat</a> about geocaching with kids I decided to try it out with C Monster.<br />
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I looked up a bit about how geocaching works as I did not want to break any rules on my first time out. I also checked out and signed up on the <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/" target="_blank">geocaching.com </a>web site.<br />
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After that I downloaded the app for my <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/iphone/default.aspx" target="_blank">iPhone</a>. We were ready to go.<br />
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We started with a spot pretty close to our house to see what he thought about it. It was pretty neat, this little treasure hiding in an area I pass by every week. C Monster loved it and asked if there were more treasures to find. I showed him the map in the geocaching app and off we were to destination #2.<br />
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We ended up staying out from 10am to 4pm and looked for 6 treasures and found 3. The picture to the right is of C Monster checking out the contents of the 3rd treasure.<br />
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We need to go a second time pretty soon because we ended up with a travel bug. This is a special item that travels from location to location. But that's ok with both C Monster and me because he wanted to try to find one of his friends treasures.<br />
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I think C Monster started showing interest in skateboarding around 18 month. He had an old board that he found on the side of the road that gave up last summer. We had been talking about getting him a board ever since so a few weeks ago off we went to <a href="http://www.hogtownextreme.com/" target="_blank">Hogtown Extreme Sport </a>and got him geared up.<br />
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We got him a helmet, pads and a mini board. The pads I have to are really nice. We had bought him some pads from sellers for about 20$ a few years ago and those look like junk compared to these. They are from<a href="http://www.triple8.com/shop/product/Little-Tricky-Youth-Protective-Pack-with-Instructional-DVD" target="_blank"> Little Tricky </a>and cost about $35. Worth every penny.<br />
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For those of you who do not know what a mini board is. The board is approximately 28x7.5" instead of approximately 32x8" everything else is the same as a regular board. This makes them a much better size for little kids to handle and learn on. <br />
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The board he selected is by <a href="http://www.powellgoldendragon.com/steve-caballero/" target="_blank">Golden Dragon</a> this is a good starter board as it's pretty well made but is cost effective at right around 100$.<br />
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After only a few times out on the board we realized that getting him to place his feet above the trucks was going to be much easier if the screws were not the same colour as the grip tape, so we changed the screws to coloured ones he selected pink, orange, green and blue.<br />
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As I am writing this the C Monster is playing on his board right beside me while waiting for papa to be ready to bring him to the skate park. He seems to be really getting into this and we go out about 3 times a week right now if not more. <br />
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He has mastered getting on and off. He has pretty good kick turns considering he is 4 and is currently working on learning how to push off with no assitance.<br />
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Our new house has this massive maple tree in front of it that overhangs the house; so after we moved in we placed a call to the city to have them inspect it. I really did not want it falling on our house :-)<br />
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They came by last week and said one leader needs to come down because its too close to the electrical wires; one leader diseased. That would only leave one leader that is small and overhangs the house. They trim the trees away from the house so that they do not overhang your home so that would not leave much tree. So our tree has received the orange mark of death.<br />
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It should be coming down in the fall and the new tree will go in spring 2013. We selected a <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=turkish+filbert&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bcGBT-_FIcfl0QHnm_jnBw&ved=0CD0QsAQ&biw=1152&bih=557" target="_blank">Turkish Filbert</a>.<br />
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