What "Wii" have been up to......

OK, so we have been extremely delinquent with the blogging.
It becomes very overwhelming when you miss a few events, and things snowball and the summary blog post in your head starts getting bigger and bigger and more and more stressful to think about!

Here is a brief summary of the things we COULD have written witty and interesting posts about this summer:

- our purchase of a Wii for "father's day".
- Dana's moment of shame when she edged out a mother of four to get a Wii Fit at Best Buy
- Hulahooping over the summer, and learning new tricks from Alyssa (who knew she was a rhythmic gymnast!?!??!!?)
- Flossy ultimate fun
- Dr. Teeth and why Dana and John won't play on the same team until the kids can babysit themselves on the sideline....
- Our trip to New Brunswick and associated case of food poisoning.
- Our week by ourselves at home while Mom and Dad watched the boys in Belleville (FYI, the boys did NOT miss mommy!!)
- how I tricked John into painting the bathroom while the boys were in Belleville.
- John's summer long quest to build a horseshoe pit in the backyard. (yes, he finally got it done, no, he has not played a single game with anyone yet)
- the birth of the adorable Grace Elizabeth Haggerty to Kevin, Amy and Liam (and how I had just told John a few weeks earlier that I wanted to name our next daughter (if we ever have one!) Grace - but having a Grace Haggerty is perfectly perfect to me!)
- the birth of Emmett McGinnity, to Sarah, Noel and Owen and my sincere wishes for the miracle blanket to work it's charm on him for the sake of his mother's sanity.
- learning to make fondant cakes with my talented sister-in-law. (that tastes as delicious as it looks...mmmmmarshmallow!)
- how Trevor almost broke my record for hulahooping on Wii, and how I haven't been doing any training to prevent this from happening the next time the Mason's come over!
- our purchase of our Toyota Sienna mini van and associated drama with car dealers, trying to decide where to buy (US vs Canada) etc etc etc. (the truck recall post is of course john's to write)
- how much i LOVE our minivan, even though i wasn't sure if I was going to be able to reconcile myself to being a minivan mom.......apparently i can!
- how the boys have grown and learned all kinds of new things this summer, good and bad!
- how Daniel has the most mischievous smile and has earned the nickname "Silent Sam" cause he doesn't talk much, especially when new people are around. Every new word he says is like a present because they have seemed so few and far between.....his latest are "brother" and "catch" and "tani" (his babysitter)
- how David continues to amaze us with his oh-so-accurate recollection of everything that he hears..... including spelling "p-i-s-s-i-n-g me off" to his stuffed animals. (fyi. all spelling of inappropriate words has been officially suspended in the Kean household)
- how David starts nursery school tomorrow and it makes me happy because i know he will love it and thrive and soak everything up like the little sponge he is, and how i am sad because he is getting so big and he goes to the potty by himself and gets dressed (mostly) by himself and he is getting SO independent!!!
- our anniversary dinner last thursday and how awesome it was to go out just the two of us and enjoy a bottle of wine and some delicious steaks
- Heather and Julien's wedding and how the bridesmaids looked fabulous in orange, and Heather's craftiness and organization were quite a sight to see.
-hmmmm I think that brings us up to the present..... hopefuly I can start a fresh tomorrow - maybe some with some pics of David's first day of nursery school and a "david kean" review of how the day at school went:)

...dana
aka. princess disenchanted:)