Rollin' along through life

I know we have been MIA for a while but we're back.

We (myself and the boys) fly to Edmonton for the last two weeks of January to celebrate my brother's birthday and of course to visit family and friends.

We spent week one with Grandma and Grandpa, we:
- had visit from Caufu who met Torr for the first time
- went to the Telus World of Science for a morning which was awesome
- played in the snow for a good 5 minutes before Liam realized you had to keep your mitts on to stay warm
- numerous friends dropped in to say hello
- went swimming with Melanie and her son Nate and her mom Nancy

Torr meeting Caufu for the first time!

Library time put on by Auntie Chloe!

Week Two was spent with Kung Kung and Pau Pau we:
- had an open house where I got a chance to see a bunch of my friends
- spent tons of time playing inside since some days hit minus 40 with wind chill
- had lots of visits from Caufu which was great!

The Fam - unflattering pic of Liam but he was refusing to sit for the photo

After we arrived home it was back to the swing of things only to leave again on the Friday to go to Vancouver Island. For those that didn't know we will be moving to Courtenay (Between Nanaimo and Campbell River) at the end of May as Matt begins locuming in June. Don't worry there is an airport near by that Westjet flies to. Hint hint

We spent our Saturday looking at 10 houses in a little over 4 hours...Torr was a dream he just slept and enjoyed going from house to house. Liam stayed with our friend, Sian, in Campbell River and had a blast. Thanks again Sian and Derek for putting up with us for two days!

Brotherly bath time!

En route home we stopped to see our friends, Ryan, Karen and Sam, in Nanaimo and then Cam, Carmen and Andy in Vancouver for dinner.

Typical Sunday dinner with Cam, Carmen and Andy

Busy weekend but well worth the trip. We'll update you on our house situation as soon as we know. :)

Love,

Monique, Matt, Liam and Torr

Brotherly Love

Who knew two brothers could love each other so much?!!! Well lucky for us we have never had any problems with Liam since Torr was born, it seems he loves him no matter what...even when Torr pees on Liam by accident in the bath tub. haha

Come on Torr give your big brother a hug!!

Liam is a great big brother who is always bringing Torr toys, reading him books (yep he repeats the words from books he has memorized), and even sings lullabies when Torr starts crying. We are truly blessed to have these two.

Here's Liam trying to 'breastfeed' Torr

Torr on the other hand is getting bigger - over 15 lbs now and grown a few more cms. He is a giggling machine and a very good sleeper. Once again we are very lucky!

Hi everybody!!

This past Saturday we went into Vancouver to see Cam and Carmen's new place. Liam liked exploring their townhouse and then Brendalyn and Andy came over to join us for dinner. Cam and Carmen put together a wonderful feast of Thai curry shrimp and fresh crab legs to be dipped in garlic butter...makes my mouth water just thinking about it. I'll post more photos next time of the meal.

Aunty B and a sleepy Torr.

Uncle Andy reading Liam's bedtime books.

We are off to Edmonton this week so I will post again when we get there!

Monique, Matt, Liam and Torr

The Tao of Torr

We've beat the odds it seems...apparently if your first child was easy your second one is suppose to be a nightmare. Nope I dare to disagree I"d have to say Liam was easy and Torr well he's even easier. I know there are a few parents out there giving me dagger eyes right now but it's true. He's following in the footsteps of his brother...becoming another Budda.

I promised I would do a little post on Torr. Yes, he does do things other than sleep but he so darn good at it. We've lucked out and he starting to sleep close to 11 hours a night. No I am not ignoring his cries and no I'm not starving him...he seems to like his sleep. Lucky for me!

Hey Torr stop sticking your tongue out at everyone!

He's a very happy, healthy young man. He's 15 lbs now and an eating machine. He started off not smiling or laughing very much but that has all changed in the last few weeks. He loves grinning at people and loves listening to Liam speak. I can only imagine what these two are going to be like.

Torr dressed as Elmer Fudd. :)

Daddy stop tickling my ear!!!

I promise I will start including more photos of Torr in the blog but until next time...

LATER GUYS!!

Love from Torr, Liam, Matt and Monique

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

We are not able to make it to Edmonton for Christmas this year so from our family to yours...

Merry Christmas

The Fam

winter in Chilliwack (1 degree and wetttttt)

Liam's first Gingerbread house...he didn't even eat one candy!

In Canmore

Faster Grandpa!!!

Love from: Matt, Monique, Liam and Torr

p.s. if you're looking for Torr in these photos he is asleep in most of them usually in Matt's jacket or his cozy bed. sorry he will resurface again soon. :)

It's all about the boys...

So the last few weeks we have been on a whirlwind of journeys and each time people ask me how our trip was I keep getting them mixed up. It's gotten to the point that Liam has decided to answer the question of "Liam, how was your trip where did you go?" with "I went to Africa to ride elephants." Really we didn't go to Africa but we've been away from home so much we may as well have gone there.


Here is the recap of our latest adventures:


Matt had a week off in November so while the Canadian dollar was awesome we booked a little trip over the border to Tulalip, Washington to do a little shopping at the Seattle Premium outlets. That particular outlet is great with big name stores and quite the good deals. Liam and Torr were great shoppers even though I can imagine in their minds this trip was B-O-R-I-N-G!! Liam did love the hotel - sleeping in a double bed to himself and of course the swimming pool.

Breakfast in bed anyone?

Then a week later we headed off to Canmore to spend some time skiing and enjoying Grandma and Grandpa's place since who knows when we'll be able to get there next. Once again an adventure with the highways closing the day we were leaving due to severe weather conditions. So we found ourselves on day 1 sleeping overnight in Sicamous and finally arriving in Canmore the next evening but Matt had white knuckles driving all the way there though. We had a great visit cross country skiing with the kids, a fun afternoon at Norquay where I skiied for the first time since grade 9, our friend, Chauntille, from Chilliwack now a resident of Red Deer came for a few days and of course Hugh and Lynda came to spend a few days with us which made Liam and Torr's vacation that much more special!


We're home now and the boys are doing excellent.


Torr is now 3 months old and just started giggling yesterday. He has turned into a little chubby dumpling and has his own little personality...quieter than his is comedian brother but cute as a button.

Torr during one of his favorite times of the day!

Umm excuse me isn't this my private time!

Liam is in his 'Terrific Twos'...I"ll keep referring to these times as that even though I'd have to say the Terrible twos do strike every second day. He's a great kid - totally funny, very smart and has a mind of his own which doesn't always agree with Matt and I but that's part of growing up I guess. :)

Favorite Olympian...I sure hope so!

I know, I know I'm adorable!!

So that's a quick update before the holidays begin but I promise I will take tons of photos over the next few weeks.


We hope all of you have a fantastic and safe holidays!!


Love,

Matt, Mo, Liam and Torr

Liam the comedian, Torr the quiet Giant and other great stories!

So young Torr is now 2 months old and is getting cuter and cuter everyday. He nows weighs a healthy 13 lbs 3 oz which puts him, according to the public health nurse, in the 92 nd percentile for weight. Matt keeps blaming his weight gain on the "Creem-o" I apparently produce. haha He got his immunizations the other day and had the same reaction as Liam which was a 2 second cry and then fell asleep. Maybe these boys see pain as therapeutic and soothing? Who knows?

Torr apparently grows bubble beards in the bath tub too. Robertson male trait I guess.

Lucky for me my dad has been visiting for the last week and a half. He has given me a lot time to myself as he has single handedly taken care of the boys. He even sends me to the gym every morning!! I love my dad!!! Liam is loving having Kung Kung here to play cars and trucks with everyday!! And of course I definitely see a bond between my dad and Torr since Torr will automatically look at dad as he hears his voice and simply gives me the "come on woman just feed me" act.

KungKung and Torr

It seems that as Liam gets older into his 2's he seems to be getting funnier and funnier each day. I am trying to figure out who gave him these personality traits...Matt? no. Me? no way. Will Ferrell? pretty much a yes!

Liam is a Pete Repeat these days copying anything you say, anything he hears on the radio and anything you do he wants to do it to.

Example 1: Matt brought the harmonica done from the shelf and of course Liam wants to play it/slobber into it. The weird thing is it sounds good, bizarre, and he keeps calling it the Hanukkah which makes me laugh as the sentence is "Dad where's Hanukkah?" at which point Matt goes into a lengthy explaination about the Jewish holiday. Yep the everyday conversations in the Robertson household. However, the harmonica saga continues as we joined Matt's collegue Ken H. and his family a few weekends ago and Ken's two kids are excellent musicians so Liam found Sam's "Hanukkah" and proceeded to play it and Sam helped out with the piano accompliment. It was a pretty awesome sight to see.

Rhythm and Blues Legend: Liam 'Bum Crack' Robertson

Liam's first harmonica recital

Example 2: Some days while driving and listening to hip hop in the car I catch Liam singing the last word of each line in a song (lalala day, lalalala play, etc.). So in Sean Kingston's song Beautiful Girl there is a line where he says something to effect of 'you have me suicidal' which I obviously don't want Liam singing out the words about being suicidal however I could hear him singing that part only to realize he thought the lyrics were saying "shoes and sandals". It makes the song sound way better that way anyways thinking he's singing about sneakers and flip flops. :)

Any requests? I'm hear for another 5 minutes.

Hope that updates you for a another few weeks!

Later,

Mo, Matt, Liam and Torr

Another crazy Halloween!

I know the past two Halloweens Liam has had some pretty awesome costumes (Pillsbury Doughboy and then the Dalai Lama)...however I'll be honest I slacked this year buying both boys their costumes...yikes thought I could sew at least Torr's no such luck I"d rather sleep a little more then try to sew during nap time.

Nonetheless the boys had a great time on Halloween night. We went trick or treating with our neighbours and Samantha really showed Liam the ropes of going door to door for candy. Too bad he thinks you can trick or treat everyday now. :)

Hangin' out with Scooby Doo/Sam.

Liam and his BFF Codie

hmmm guess who I am...

We also had an overnight visit from my friends, Sarah and Lyndi, as they were on route back to Edmonton. Liam had a hard time distinguishing Sarah from Lyndi but really all that mattered to him was that they played cars with him. haha

Lyndi and Torr

Torr is getting bigger everyday he has his two month appointment this Thursday so I"ll update the blog then and let you know what this big eater now weighs.

Sarah and Lyndi loving the Torr

Until then...

The Robertsons

Dreams do come true!!!

I know these postings are a little scattered these days but hey we're a house of two kids now so I leave that as our excuse. :)

We've had a great few weeks. Here's our recap...

Last Saturday, we went into Vancouver aboard the SkyTrain, Liam's Life Dream up to this point in his 2 years and 2 months of life, and met up with friends of ours from Edmonton and Vancouver (Mel, her son Nate, Nancy, Samantha and her two kids Morgan and Griffin). We had a great time eating some pizza and then off to walk around Robson (more my want not anyone else's). It was great to see Mel as our kids are only a few weeks apart and Nate's definitely a cutie!! We spent time with Cam and Carmen as well which made Liam's day and then headed home on the SkyTrain. All in all great day.

We know we're cute!!

Thursday, Liam went on his first field trip. We went with the Family Place Resource Center to the Greendale Farm where we were treated to a tractor ride, picked out pumpkins, went to a petting zoo, drank hot chocolate and even had a story and this was all done by 11:30 am. haha
We fulfilled Liam's 2nd dream of riding on a tractor and we even got on tv. How did they know I wanted to be interviewed other than the fact I tried to get my kids into every shot that the camera went. hahaha true story.

hmm that hot chocolate tastes good!!

Finally, on Friday my neighbour Andy, who is a on call firefighter, fullfilled dream #3 of visiting the Firehall. It was awesome to go in there and get a personal tour of the hall and get to ride in all the fire engines. Needless to say Liam loves our neighbour and occasionally calls him dad since we spend so much time next door.

I want to be a firefighter when I grow up!

Trying on Andy's fire gear!

Getting a little help from my buddy Andy!

That's all folks!!

The Robertsons

The Great Pumpkin Patch and other fantastic October moments

All the family has now left and we are on our own. Yikes! The last few days have been alittle stressful because Matt is not only working office hours he is also working in Emerg. so he works evenings. Thought it was going to be crazy but really it has been quite nice especially when both boys cooperate...ie Liam plays by himself as I feed Torr or Torr decides that he is simply going to watch Liam play instead of fussing about. :) Kidding Torr is not a fusser at all, he actually is quite patient allowing me to deal with Liam even when he is extremely hungry...I take that as a good character trait...patience. He is now 4 weeks old and heading in for a doctor's appt. next week so I'll give you his official weight then but he no longer a skinny boy he's really fattened up and even has the double chin now. :)

Good old squishy face.

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner as Hugh and Lynda were still here and we were joined by Cam, Carmen, Andy, Brendalyn, Scott and Jess. Full house but that's what family holidays are all about!!

Maybe this leaf will help me fly!

Liam was so happy to receive a Bubble Lawnmower from our neighbours for his birthday. He has tried to get Matt to go out everyday to mow the lawn but the perfect opportunity finally came. Except he wanted to mow towards Matt as Matt was actually mowing the lawn making the situation quite danger. So Matt turned the mower off and raced Liam's mower around the front lawn then sprinted away to finish patches of lawn. Needless to say a lawn that would take 5 minutes to do turned into 30! haha

Hurry up will yeah Dad!!

My lawnmower's better than yours!

Finally as we get ready for Halloween we did a trip to the Wisbey Farm Pumpkin Patch to pick out some pumpkins. I'd never been to a patch before so it was pretty neat to see ho pumpkins are actually grown. Liam was delighted to go there and we even weighed him on the pumpkin scale...35 lbs! Yikes he's a big boy.

The Great Pumpkin Patch

Well that's the update for now. Talk to you soon.

The Robertsons

I'm almost 2 weeks old!

Hi everyone I'm Torr. I will be two weeks old tomorrow morning I thought I would show you some photos of my first few weeks at home.

Me chillin' out with my dad and big brother Liam.

I have a very nice big brother named Liam who likes to give me lots of wet kisses and is always trying to poke me...is that normal?



My KungKung and PauPau have been here for a week and a half to help my mom and dad with the kids. I don't think I"m too much work all I do is feed every 3 hours and instead of spitting up I just rocket poo out of my bum. You'd think they would be more appreciative. My grandparents play a lot with Liam and they like to watch him when he goes to soccer lessons.

Me sleeping again...

We've had lots of visitors so far.

My Uncle Andy, Uncle Cam and Auntie Brendalynn came out to visit for a few hours. It was nice because they held me for the entire time they came to visit.

Auntie B and me

Then my Uncle Michael, Auntie Teresa with my two cousins, Matthew and Christopher, came from Burnaby for the morning. Christopher and I watched as Matthew and Liam ate frozen yogurt and played with balloons. They're so lucky!

Matthew and Liam eating their yogurts.

My mom and dad's friends, Tanya and Brent, came through on their way home from their wedding that we missed because I was born on the same weekend. oppps.

Mom and dad tried to send us home with Tanya and Brent. :)

Well my weeks have been filled with going on lots of errands with my mom and dad...we even went out to dinner with Sheila and Har but I slept the entire time. I am looking forward to meeting my Grandma and Grandpa this week and eating some Thnksgiving turkey. yipee.

That's all for now. Talk to you soon.

Love,

Torr Robertson

Suddenly there were four!!!

On Sunday, September 16 at 5:32 am we welcomed to the world (trumpets please)

Torr Patrick Robertson.

We are now so blessed to have two healthy little boys in our lives...a little crazy for me as mom having so much testerone in the house but I can deal with it. :)



It was a crazy intense labour again entering the hospital at 1 am and finding out I was only 2 cm dilated and the contractions were already 5 minutes apart. But in a span of four hours we went from 2 cm to 10 cm and crazy crazy contractions (for those that have had babies intense labours are not fun) to pushing out this wonderful new baby boy.

Here's his stats:

Weight: 7 lbs even
Length: 20.5 inches

Everyone is doing well and we even get to enjoy the company of my mom and dad for the next few weeks. Liam is loving having KungKung and PauPau to play with and of course I am happy to have the extra sets of hands!

We'll continue to update you all on the crazy life of the Robertsons as a family of four!!

Love,

Matt, Monique, Liam and Torr