The Adventures continue...

Sharing a pillow

I finally have proof... Jay and Nathan can share and theoretically get along while doing it:

It's really sad that they had to be asleep to accomplish this, but it does prove it can be done.  Nathan sure knows how to push Jay's buttons and make his little life miserable.  This in turn makes me not such a happy mommy at times but then look how cute they are asleep!
     Today was family day in Alberta.  Although Clarke is working right now I thought it would be fun to take the boys tobogganing today.  Nathan was very excited to go "Bonky-Bonky" which is apparently how 2 year olds say tobogganing!  Clarke decided we should go out and ride the ski-doo.  Sadly it was a little windy where the ski-doo now lives and much of the snow is off the prairie with the blowing that we haven't got in town.  Jay was too cold and wanted to stay in the van, Carson wanted to play with the cats and Nathan wanted to ride the 'little doo' that the Williams' family has (we store our sled out at one of Clarke's friends houses in the bald prairie).  We didn't get very many rides in and Carson decided he wanted to go with mommy and he wanted to go really fast and over a jump.  Short story - we flipped the sled and the biggest injury Carson got was that his glove got buried in the snow.  Mommy was stuck trying to lift the sled off of her so that Carson could get out and then Clarke and the other two boys came racing down in the van.  As we got in the van and I reversed it up the drive while Clarke went and parked the sled, Jay, very proudly announced that he had come "to the rescue!" followed by his somewhat evil sounding laugh.  Thanks, Jay!  Don't know what we would have done without the rescue!  Next time maybe he'll get out of the van to see if we are okay!

      As mentioned Clarke is working right now.  He works four on, four off.  This photo was at the beginning of his four on.  He was playing with the boys just before heading in to work.  They were doing a dog pile on daddy and Nathan insisted that I get a picture.  I told him it was okay, that we didn't need one.  He climbed off of Clarke and went to get the camera.  He then instructed his brothers to climb back on daddy and for me to take the picture!  What a goofball.
Nathan will often ask me to take a picture of him or of the other boys doing something or other.  It is interesting that he really seems to have connected that this is how to preserve some memories.  It is interesting as well the things that he chooses to preserve in his little head.  As Clarke headed off to work as well on this tour Nathan asked him why he had to go to work.  Clarke tried to explain that if he didn't go to work that Nathan wouldn't have any toys to play with.  For the last 2 days now I have heard how daddy is at work buying Nathan toys and Jay wants to know why daddy is only buying toys for Nathan!