Smiles All Around

Well, our smiles are going to be changing around here shortly so I figured I should post a couple pictures of this past week-end when our current smiles are still relevant.

Nathan came home today with his first wiggly tooth.

Last year he told me one of his teeth was loose.  A lot of his friends were losing their teeth so I guess he must of wanted in on all the action.  He still has the original loose tooth so I guess it must have decided to stay put awhile longer ; )

Today when i picked him up off the bus his driver, Mr. Taylor told me he's been wiggling his tooth the whole way home.  I'd love to go for a ride on that bus just to see the shenanigans.

He hopped off and immediately showed me.  There is definitely a wiggly tooth in there.

So here's a few pictures of beautiful teeth.  Some on the way in, some on the way out.

5 teeth and counting.

5 for the last two months

I know there are more coming

C'mon teeth

Look at all those beautiful teeth!!

Bottom, middle, left

Is on it's way out

He seriously has such an amazing smile

....and amazing heart

....and amazing spirit

....and amazing personality

...and amazing laugh

...and amazing memory

...and amazing

ok, ok, ok

He's amazing and I could go on forever.

Corn Boil

Every fall my Mom and Dad host their annual corn boil.

My Mom has a great garden and she grows the corn herself.  It takes a lot of effort to grow corn.  I know many years she's had to replant half grown corn a few times because wind has knocked it over. I also know she oils it....I think it has something to do with bugs, but I'm not sure.  All I know is that come corn boil night - the corn is ready, and it's GOOD!  Mom takes the little kids and sometimes big kids, out to the corn and everyone picks it and bring it over to the pot in her trusty wheel barrel and then we all husk it.  It's fun, and the kids really get a kick out of harvesting their own corn.  Mom usually has a pretty big grin on her face too.


This year the weather was perfect.  We went down early to get into the River one last time for the year and to help finish setting up for the big party.  Everything was set up and looking great so we went swimming.

Corn, beans, salads, desserts, lots of family and friends.  Could the night be any better?  Oh yes, guitars, bon fires, lots of stars, laughing adults and giggling kids.  It was another great night.

It feels really strange that N is not in this picture but he was

far too busy running around with all his cousins and friends well 

into the night to stop to get a picture with us.  

He had so much fun!

Delivery from the North

Arctic cotton is like little clouds growing on the ground.  It is as soft as it looks.  

I remember when we first moved to Paulatuk it was everywhere and I thought it was coolest thing ever.  I still do.  

This is still one of my all time favourite pictures from Paulatuk.  Everything about it feels Northern to me.  The fact that Nathan is so cute and little in this picture only adds to it.

This was the very last picture I took in Paulatuk

before we headed up to the airport.

The day before we were moving Nathan and I hopped on the quad for one of our very last quading adventures with scissors and a bag.  We went out to cut some Arctic Cotton to bring to our new home.

I cut it as he played and I carefully packed it in paper towel and a ziplock bag.  

Big mistake.

I've moved enough and should have known better.  I hadn't thought about the fact that it was not dried and that it was in a ziplock bag to sweat and be packed in a box for the next 2 or 3 weeks. 

The result wasn't pretty.  I was so excited to unpack it, only to find it covered in mold.

When our friend from Paulatuk came to visit us last Spring I mentioned to her that I would love to have some Arctic Cotton in our new home.  

She wrote me a few weeks ago and told me that it was in the mail and that hopefully it would arrive safely as she had dried it while she was on a trip of the lifetime paddling from Tuktuk Nogait National Park back to Paulatuk.  

Yesterday this arrived from Paulatuk!!

Finally - we have Arctic Cotton in our home.

Thank You Lanita 

For sharing a piece of your home with us!