Playground Tour Begins

Today we had our first meet up for the 2009 "NLMOMS PLAYGROUND TOUR". We went to Victoria Park. The wind was a little cold, but all in all it was great to get out in the fresh air! All the kids had a blast and it was so difficult getting d to leave the park lol

Progress is sweet!

Last night we moved some of the bigger "toy" items into the nearly completed playroom. D was so excited this morning when he saw his train table in there. He was a great helper too! We transferred what I call "the collections" into the playroom today. So right now all trains, cars, dinosaurs and potato head items are in their new home. I made stickers to label the storage containers for the above items. D help decide what went into which container and then helped put the stickers in place. He proudly displayed them to dh when he got home. I'm hoping the stickers... and the "everything has a place/ home" motto will help to keep the playroom in some kind of livable form lol

Mom was asking if I had purged some of his toys. I haven't gotten to that yet, but hope to purge a little when I get into his toybox and the miscellaneous items tomorrow. The thing with d is he has been into the same few items for a long while now. When he goes to a store containing toys he wants to see the Thomas section and the Cars section lol So besides the occasional McDonald's toy and some other odds and ends from the dinosaur store (dollar store) there likely won't be much purging to do.

33 week check up

Had our 33 week check up today. DH got in a little hot water for forgetting about the appointment and not carrying his cellphone on him. Needless to say he has been reminded not to be leaving the cellphone in the jeep from here on in.

I was relieved to find out I only gained 3lbs. I seriously have been feeling huge and thought the gain would be more. Belly is measuring @ 36 weeks. So still looks to be another big boy! We have an ultrasound schedule for next week so will be interesting to see how big little Niko is measuring.

Vermicomposters

Well we are officially Vermicomposters! We went for a drive out to Bay Bulls today and picked up a lb of red worms from "Trouters Special Worm Farm". D is all excited about our "worker worms" as we have called them. He tried to name a few... but gave up when he realized just how many worms we have lol

Some greater starter information on this website:
http://www.wormcomposting.ca/getting-started/

Also the MUN Botanical Gardens is celebrating "International Compost Awareness Week" May 4th -10th with activities, lectures and programs all related to composting. They have a schedule of events posted here.

Let the Sunshine in...

It's a beautiful spring day here and it just got even better! Dh just ordered my Mother's Day / Birthday gift... a brand new 6x8 greenhouse. The very one pictured above. I can't wait to get it all set up! Hopefully it will get here by Mother's Day weekend. I am a little nervous about whether or not I will be able to use it to it's full potential this year... being due mid June and all. But I guess where there is a will there is a way! I love that dh is so supportive and has become such a fan of gardening. He really seems to have gotten into it too! :D Gonna take d out to enjoy the day for a bit and then do up my seed order :D

Happy Earth Day!

We did out annual clean up a day early (yesterday). D and I managed to pick up 4 bags of garbage. He was very proud and eager to show off our accomplishment (bags of trash) to his dad when he got home yesterday! I love how easily motivated he is!

This morning we are heading to the Geocenter they are having some Earth Day activities and best of all admission is free today!

Earth Day websites and resources fore kids

A few Earth Day websites for the kids to check out:

Canadian website has tons of resources and some contests
http://www.ecokids.ca

Lots and lots of stuff here...
http://holidays.kaboose.com/earth-day/

Lots of stuff here including print-ables:
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/earth.html

Handy Mandy has a special episode has well as print-ables and activities.
http://tv.disney.go.com/playhouse/earthday/index.html

Sesame Street has lots of activities as well... they are calling it "Go Green Day"
http://www.sesamestreet.org/home


Share the Earth... (just talks about their Earth Day programing)
http://pbskids.org/video/