After a trip out shopping, Dylan gets in the house and starts saying "where my Rockin'Coon?"

PARDON???

He repeats again, same pronunciation.....

"WHERE MY ROCKIN'COON?"

finally something twigs with me...

The
RACCOON
that I bought from Micheal's 20 minutes earlier.

Because it was on sale in November for next to nothing

A doggy the size of Dylan

dressed up for halloween

wearing a mask

the ROCKIN'COON.

"he's in the garage Dylan, I'll go get him" I say.

Dyl's response?

" I luff him"

Halloween !

Totally unedited, throw them up there so the grandparents can see- Halloween pics !

Daddy thought I was crazy when I said Dylan was going to carve a pumpkin with a drill......

 But it was a good opportunity for him to participate in an activity he normally wouldn't be able to....

 And it was something we'd never done....  

 And he loved it....

 Turned out pretty good

 Halloweening at the mall... 

 Into the warmer Lion suit for outdoor trick or treating....

With his best girl...

 And one of his best buddies....

 Even the scary houses weren't that scary....

 And the two buddies waiting for the fireworks to start.

What a great night we had !!!

Napping at Grandma and Grandpa's house

Riiiiight !!!

What Dylan does when he is supposed to be sleeping.

I might also add this was under grandparent and father's watch.

haha

they said they heard some banging.

I'll have to ask Mat again what were Dylan's exact words when they went in the room.

Note- 

stuffed animals under bed

bed rail off

bedding stripped

curtains open

you are loved... even when you are naughty

We are pretty lucky with Dylan, for the most part he's a pretty good kid.

Few tantrums here and there.

Seems to be learning to "touch nice"

Listens a decent percentage of time.

Reads his manners books

But occassionally there is need for the time out chair.

In my last post I showed you the blah-before

AND... 9 months later... ta-da !

I've had my eye on the "you are loved" saying for a while.

and frankly, I love it.

I thought it was fitting here.

Because it's a positive message for him to see as he goes fighting and screaming mad to his time out chair.

And because I have humour... here's what the chair seat says....

and because I have even more humour.... I distressed the chair.... how ironic hey?

Have a good weekend !

ps for my American friends- I didn't make a spelling mistake... us Canadians spell it behavioUr
same with humoUr.
:)

wordless wednesday

Whenever we go to my mom's Dylan, and the other grandchildren for that matter want to play with the weebles treehouse.

It's as old as I am 

(watch the rude comments people !)

but they love it.

For Christmas my mom bought little D one.

But it was a bit of a bust.

It was too electronic.

Didn't really let them play.

So it's kinda just sat there.

BUT

the other day I picked up a slightly older version of the one he got for Christmas and he 

LOVES it.

I know my mom was looking for one that was less electronic then the current model that was for sale- and this new to us one fits the bill !

I couldn't pass it up even though we already had one.

I had to get it for nostalgia reasons, and because it's the kind my mom had intended on him having.

So he has it.

And when we combine it with the electronic one, the electronic one is more fun now !

So it's win-win.

Slight adaptations and more free play option ones make this one better !!!  

ps. I paid $4.99 for this one.

Fly by the seat of my pants Friday

So I totally had NOTHING planned for Friday's blog.

But I'm up late Thursday night after reality TV bliss.

Big Brother

& 

new season of

Jersey Shore.

LOVES IT !!!!!

stupid Shaw cable 

(oh ya, I'm publicly naming you) 

has been acting up

well to be honest, 

CRAPPING OUT

at the worst times.

So I missed a valuable part of BB.

So as soon as Jersey Shore ended, and Mat's snoring began 

I came down to check who is the new HOH on BB.

(still with me??)

AND

discovered, no Friday blog post.

CRAP.

Think Fast.

Make Something up.

And thus 

Fly by the seat of my pants Friday is created.

Dylan and Rowan playing on the Wii- dancing to Micheal Jackson.

Rowan did well.

Dyl had no idea what to do.

So he copied Rowan.

And held the controller that doesn't work.

Happy Friday.

We have gone through a few renters in our suite, and recently got a new couple who have a dog.

Dylan has begun to refer to Oakley as his dog.

We have been down to the back yard 

A LOT

to play with him.

I'm thinking of ways to steal him and adopt him.

He's a sweet sweet soul who is so loving.

We really like him....

and he really likes us....

but as for Diego...

I'm not so sure....

this was their first "meeting" through the door.

One day last week he was calling and calling me....

Moooooommmyyyyyy   .... Moooommmyyyyyy!

Not sure how he got in, but he popped up and thought it was VERY funny !  

Messy

We hosted a playdate on Friday at our house.

We decided to make choco-cherry muffins- with fresh cherries from our tree !

My little "helper" got a bit carried away.

and had lots of fun !!

Lesson of the day- the fun from this activity FAR outweighs the mess I had to clean up.

Such concentration.

He said his fire truck..

BROKE DOWN.

he's so cute.

Cheese !!!!!!! While eating cheese