Wednesday, October 26, 2005

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It's snowing in our house.
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James Turrell moment
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looking back towards kitchen
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Houston, we have doors that stay closed now.
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Friday, October 21, 2005

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Drywall on tv/painting niche
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union break

A break from renos.
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New framing.
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LL's room
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"can i come out yet?"
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Hooray

Well, the OSM strike is officially over (for another 4 or 5 years at least).
This means we can buy some boots for LL. Yay!

Monday, October 17, 2005

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Demolition started today- goodbye Portugese tile.
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good bye wood cladding
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Goodbye melamine shelves and parquet
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1st day

Uncle J and mom walking with LL to his first day at day care.
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masterbuilder

Chip off the old block.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Arian day care

So LL started daycare (couple of hours each day) yesterday and seems to have adjusted fairly well.
The first day we walked in to the room with him, the other kids were just sitting down for a morning snack at their table, when these 10 little blonde heads turned to check out the new chinese-anglo kid. Good luck kid!

Shout-outs

A shout out to all the belated birthday girls- Jessica and Jude.
Happy Birthday- yo.

haircut

Gave the lil' guy another haircut... only took 4 separate attempts this time.
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St. Anne's boardwalk

Last weekend we headed out to Pierre Jean's to check out his ground source heat pump. Afterwards, Ann had packed a picnic lunch so we headed to St. Anne's for lunch. Cute little town complete with its own boardwalk.
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Sunday, October 02, 2005

big owe

Ann's parents came to town on Thursday. Friday night we went to the botanical gardens to look at the chinese gardens and the lantern exhibit (running Sept 9-Oct 31).
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lant1

Entrance
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Fresh off the boat
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Phoenix
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March of the penguins
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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Suharto (squishey head part II)

I hope this is not an omen
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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Catching up (list in progress)

Just wanted to welcome a few of our latest friends into the world:

William Grant Illing Stewart (June 14)
Lhasa Laren Larose (July 8)
Matthew Peter Wesley Moonen (July 30)
Anjue Long Juba Liang (Sept 14)
Walter McKellar Bulman-Fleming (Sept. 15)
Reilly Kai Miners-Yamamoto (Sept. 27)

Congratulations!

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

stair almost done

Thanks to John and Chris for sending this photo. (Refer back to formwork archive January 12, 2005).
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squishey head

I don't even know what to say about this one.
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we heart terry fox

Sunday morning we went up to Mount Royal to take part (literally 1/5th) in the Terry Fox Run. We ran into Neil and Jen there- Jen actually ran the run.
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rudolph

"No Daddy I WASN'T sniffing the markers again!"
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

summer vacation

We may have overstayed our summer vacation
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The Claw

It's all about establishing that psychological edge early on.
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Banff

Strolling in Banff Friday night after a sushi dinner
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Elton and Bernie

Please no more requests for "Heart and Soul"
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Home

Hello everyone- we are now back at home in Montreal, and once again our phone and internet doesn't work. I think I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that we live in a very old city and all its infrastructure is crumbling.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Johnston Canyon1

Back in Canmore after Medicine Hat, we went on an afternoon hike up in Johnston Canyon just beyond banff. Here- just trying to make some room for the stroller.
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Johnston Canyon 2

This was a typical view along the hike- gotta remember this trail is pretty stroller friendly up to the lower falls, a few stairs here and there once you head up to the upper falls.
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Johnston Canyon 3

Proof that Ann and I do actually spend some time together.
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pottyfloss

We're back at trying this again. But our only success was at getting him to floss.
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Hat1

The weather in Canmore was bad (rainy and cold) so we headed off to Medicine Hat for some prairie time.
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Hat2

Thankfully Gonggong and PoPo wanted their share of babysitting time!
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Hat3

As always we waited until we were leaving to break out the cameras and take some photos.
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Canmore 1

seems that LL didn't get enough of water in BC so we took him down to the Bow River In Canmore for some R&R
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Congratulations!

Congratulations to my cousin Tim and Jennifer for their wedding this past weekend. Sorry we couldn't make it - hope to see you soon.

New one

Here is a new blog to add to your list:

http://www.saowen.blogspot.com/

More posts to come later ( I'm on dial - up right now)!

Monday, August 29, 2005

tsai gene

After Victoria we headed back to the mainland (Abbotsford) where we stayed with Holden and Jasmine. Here is "quickdraw" LL showing Kai an old Tsai trick.
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tania condo

Our first destination was Victoria- stayed at our friend Tania's condo near Fisherman's wharf downtown. Here is the view from her living room. Tania is music director in Victoria she and her husband Tom just had a baby a couple of weeks ago! So lucky for us her condo in Victoria was vacant while she was at her home in Vancouver with the lil' one.
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butchart gardens

Of course had to go to the gardens
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island beach

Another beach on Vancouver island - the name of which already escapes me
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island beach 2

I think we squatted like this for a good hour or so
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oakbay victoria

this shot taken just as a few schoolbuses worth of kids swarmed the beach
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oak bay victoria 2

beauty and the beast
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oak bay victoria 3

This is LL after not napping in the afternoon
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signal point petting

they're not talking to each other
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nice goat
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stampede

this is what happens when LL leaves the gate open
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

front-back

LL seems to have come down with baby measles. Poor kid has been pretty unhappy about it.
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Monday, August 01, 2005

Welcome

In added celebration of our 1 year anniversary we welcome to the fold:

http://www.jgtsai.blogspot.com/

Apologies for any cat content you may find here.