What ever happened?

To sweet looking Haley Joel Osmond?
Did he see far too many dead people that he decided he belonged in the 70's????
Geez louise gimme a pair of scissors! That hair cut belongs on cute little munchkins and old dudes still stuck in the 70's... that being said - that's the length I'm aiming for with Tristan (he's got such lovely locks!)... but not the style. Sorry. I don't think anybody should look like they've been attacked by a hair drier on one spot on their head (in Haley's case - his top right corner). Get this boy/man a new stylist, pronto!
btw... it's been a LONG evening... The terrible two's have really kicked in. Who would've thought that a TODDLER would have a set of lungs strong enough to alert an entire restaurant that HE was not ready to have a diaper change and most importantly, that HE would not have HIS BOOK taken way (who cares if there were several glasses at risk of being knocked over?????) Holy CRAPPOLA we're in for a FUN year. And I thought they'd started early at 18months!!! That wasn't even a preview! Oh man.
Needless to say, I'm in Ottawa. T and I were supposed to drive to Ktown tonight) but I was way too overtired. And stressed. And for the first time in a very long time, in dire need of a glass of wine (thank you C. for giving me a sip of yours! What a cruel game to play!)
So you're all welcome to this posting... after 3 glasses (for a woman who rarely drinks due to still breastfeeeding!) this is what really bugged me. Hayle's hair style..
Geez....


G'night all y'all.

Marcy:)

The Oliver visit

We had our second set of visitors last weekend (our first visit, was from Marcy's parents, sisters AND May-ee - which was the highlight for Tristan... for pictures on that visit you'll have to see her blog as we did not have a camera yet)...

Will's parents (Poppa and Gamma) came up for a quick visit on the way home from the Oliver family reunion in Toronto (to which we had said we'd be unable to attend since we had no idea what Will's work schedule would be like! Boo!) and we had a great time having dinner at Lonestar and having a walk by the water in downtown Kingston...

Here we are at Lonestar... Will has just done something that could be considered cruel and unusual punishment... he offered Tristan some ice cream (and even though it never actually touched his lips... well, you can see how much he embraced the idea...)

"Hey guys! Guess how many fingers I can cram in my mouth?!?!?"
Giving smooches to Gamma... awwww! What a cutie!
Poppa is now part of the society of "them who put Tristan's lego tractor back together"... with Tristan playing close attention

Cuddles with Poppa!
Walking downtown Tristan saw one of his favourite street things... a motorcycle (well, only a Vespa in this case)... he couldn't understand why Mama told him that this one didn't go "vroom vroom", but "meep meep, miiiuuum" instead! Someday he'll understand I'm sure!

Some shots of the beautiful fountain at Confederation park
Playing with my camera...

Throwing pennies into the fountain:-)
Doing laps around the fountain, I was able to use my big zoom lens (I can't remember specifics... but it's big!) to get this cool shot of Tristan simply enjoying himself!
He spots me... "Mamma!"
Good night!

Love,

Will, Marcy and Tristan :-)

Back on blogging...

I know... We've been gone forever. But, it's been a crazy, crazy busy time!

Since the last post... Tristan went to daycare full time (so I can work full time AND sleep... I know, what a whimp I am!) and loved it! Some days it was hard getting him away... we listed our home (for sale) AND sold it (whoop whoop!) which that on its own has a huge story but not worthy of blogging... and after months of waiting (9 to be exact!) our family was finally reunited on June 27th (awesome gift for Dadda!) and we moved to Kingston to catch up with Will:-)
Since then, we've been trying to get our new home in a photographable state... soon, we promise!
One of the most recent things that pushed me back into blogging was the unfortunate death of our camera... we will miss our Oly (if we can fix it, it'll be an excellent back up), but we mourned for about 1/2 a second, and then went out and bought a beautiful Digital SLR (a Canon!) that I am just over the moon with. What a fun toy!

So here are some pics with our new camera (and by the way, Tristan is growing far too quickly! But he's just as beautiful and energetic as ever! AND he seems to have his Mama's attitude... Oh oh!)
So I picked the FEW pictures we took recently... here's the first set... our outing to the Papanak Park Zoo! We made a trip to spend the weekend with the Abuelos and a great day looking at lots of animals with cousin Mary (aka - May-ee to Tristan) and her parents...
Here we are on the way to Ottawa... this is him having woken up from his nap... how lucky are we to get such a smile!

Even showing us his "grumpy" face he can't help but smile!
On the way to the zoo... Tristan and his Abba (Marcy's mom) got hungry and had a snack... baby feet! (Or I guess toddler feet! Extra flavour!)

Because Abba was trying to get to one foot (you can see her arm here)... Tristan decided to munch on his leg instead! I think he'd eaten enough of his foot already!

Setting up for a scary, scary sound of a Tristanosaurus
RRRROOOOAAAARRRR!

(He loves dinosaurs... and pretty much anything that roars... the animals at the zoo were in for a scare!)

"Hee hee... I'm so funny! I can't believe I scared Abba! She's so silly!"
And at the zoo...
We saw a baby goat

and a donkey...
And a bunny rabbit.... No wait. That's Tristan! Well, he's making a bunny noise anyway (he did see bunnies. But he was much cuter to photograph)
Looking fabulous in his rain coat...
And finding a puddle (the first of many!) to jump in! Although the funny thing is that Tristan has definintely inherited his Mama's and Dadda's neurotic gene with getting dirty... about halfway through our tour of the zoo, and trekking through some serious puddles, Tristan realized his feet were wet, and freaked! He had to have his shoes taken off, feet wiped clean, AND have his shoes cleaned on the inside AND outside (hurray for me cloth wipes, or else I wouldn't have had anything!) and even then (I guess he didn't trust Mama's cleaning job) wouldn't put his shoes back on and stayed in his stroller for a while (it wasn't until Mary went to the play area that he reconsidered his shoeless situation!) What an absolutely crazy, crazy sweetheart of a child :-)

And we saw LIONS....

And TIGERS
And BEARS... OH MY!

After photographing some coyotes, I came upon the cutest scene!
It was May-ee poking Tristan's belly! (In her defense,when he lifts up his shirt and bumps you with his belly, it's hard to resist that belly button!)
She got bored after a while but Tristan was obviously not done with the belly poking...

Mary decided to poke her own belly button, so Tristan belly bumped her as he wanted more!
Awww... Tristan trying to give a butterfly kiss... SO CUTE!
Tristan running... lots and lots of space for it!

The 'mokns'... which were actually apes (monkeys have tails!) having lunch... Tristan had a great time watching them and didn't want to leave! Not even to see the lions!
Bosworth is a big tough manly baboon... and walking by is one of his...umm... ladies...
Cutsey baboon baby! Uber cool moment when we saw the baby nursing, and I got to tell Tristan that the baby baboon was having milk from his Momma just like he does! Yup, I compared myself to a baboon. In public. With strangers within hearing range. Belive me, I've done worse

:-)
That's all for now... we've got more pics, but it's bed time for Mama!

Love,

Marcy, Will and Tristan :)