Girls don't taste nice!*

A nice easy slow morning with a visit from MrBasement to see what our water problem was. He is going to delay putting the flooring down until we have sorted the roof and got some flashing on it. Luckily his son is a roofer and will do it for us as soon as the snow has gone from the roof and it has warmed up just a little. MrBasement is also going to take out a piece of the drywall where we think the water is coming from and hopefully find the source of the problem. I am disappointed that the basement won't be finished sometime soon but also relieved that we are not going to England worrying about whether the basement will flood over the new floor! Hopefully Spring will be here soon and the roof and floor can be sorted.

Huffle watched football, we skyped Grandma and the boys played on the IPad after their showers. By Midday we went out with a huge shopping list. Small is going on a school trip on Monday to an ice rink and needed skates and a hockey approved helmet. Smallest needed snowboarding boots and Huffle wanted a snowboarding helmet for his birthday.

A beautiful bright sunny day - these shots were taken through the car window so not the greatest.

So we headed to Whitby to a New and Used Sports shop where I bought my skates and Moo bought her ski boots. We managed to get Small a pair of good skates and a hockey helmet but without the cage as he informs us he does NOT want to play hockey. (Good Boy!). It is also adjustable so Smallest can also use it (useful). We got Smallest a new pair of skates and a pair of snowboarding boots. We went to a shop that was moving and had a massive sale. We got Huffle a very very nice helmet for his birthday (Thank you Moo), and Small and I got new helmets too for snowboarding. I didn't want one but I am setting a good example. We were starving so walked around looking for somewhere to eat and eventually went to a place where we had hot sandwiches. It was okay and did the job.

We booked the kids in online for haircuts and drove over to our local town. We had time to walk around one more shop where we bought the boys ski glasses and swimming goggles for Small. Then it was time for haircuts. Smallest went first and the lady asked me if he wanted his hair cut around his ears, I said yes. When I sat down and watched her cut his hair I suddenly realised he didn't have it cut round his ears but it was too late, I don't like his haircut (do I ever?) and he doesn't like it because it isn't straight and brown! Small likes his haircut though the front looks a little short to me, still it grows quickly. Their hair should look just right by the time we get to England.

Huffle went and bought a new broom while we were haircutting and then we all went home and tried on our new gear. Bobby Dazzlers.

Small's hat is yellow and mine is green but they look the same on here - at least we won't get lost!

Huffle and Smallest both trying on the Helmet Bag - sillies

I broke Smallest's new glasses whilst trying to put them around his helmet - whoops!

The kids played with their lego and K-nex for a while before having a bowl of pasta in front of the Olympics.

Tomorrow Canada play USA in the Hockey final and we thought we would take advantage of the fact that the whole of Canada will be watching the game and sneak onto the slopes to snowboard all by oursleves, however we have since found out that the game starts at 7am so it may not be as empty as we had hoped, still they might stay at home and celebrate or console themselves!

*we were talking about going to England and Smallest said "can we go to that big park where we walk or scoot and take our fishing nets?" Small guessed that he was talking about Market Harborough and the play park. He said "we went there with someone, who was it?". I said "well you should know, you kissed her under the table in Costas". After lots of laughing and giggling, he said "I didn't kiss her, I licked her - girls don't taste nice!".

 

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