LL turned 6 on Thursday. He invited 2 boys from school over on the weekend to play hockey in the basement. Next thing we knew all the boys were playing with the ol' Thomas the train set- a renaissance of sorts! Happy Birthday LL!
Made a small backyard rink for LL - still learning the ropes on how to make a nice rink - but not too bad considering the weather has not been cooperating.
Ann's parents were here Dec 24-28 this year. LL was very patient waiting for everyone before opening presents. (Ann's parents didn't get in until 3am christmas morning so we let them sleep in a little!)
We were lucky enough to have the olympic flame relay come right down our street right in front of our house. LL wanted to run with the flame but security was pretty tight so we ran along the sidewalk. I had no idea the distance would be short (one stop sign to the next stop sign) before the next hand-off!
Spiderman and Superman interest appears to be waning, however stock in the Flash is at an all time high.
Gotta remind myself to take some video of DD crawling before those days are over...(soon)
Chill is in the air here in Montreal especially this past week- less and less kids playing in the back alley.
Taking some time out from his superhero duties for training camp, LL assumes his daytime role as scoring machine.
And so begins a new chapter in our lives. LL started kindergarten a couple of weeks ago. Here is is on the morning of his first day (basically a whole hour at school).
Turns out LL wasn't really sleeping through the night all these years.
LL and I went to the market and when I turned around he was talking to some kid on a bike... Apparently they were trading war stories.
Mid-August update... the last few weeks have been crazy busy. I basically got slammed with work and babysitting duties. Thankfully Ann and the boys put up with my general grumpiness and last night I managed to get to bed before 3am for a change. In fact, I fell asleep before the boys did! Anyways I thought I'd take the time tonight to catch up with the blog before getting back to the grind again.
Our lil' guy turned 1 on Sunday so we celebrated after dinner (Ann had to go out to the Eastern Townships during the day).
..and one with dad. LL and I made the cake as Ann designated me official cake maker for family events earlier this year.
We also had other (unwanted) house guests in the roof above our balcony. We hired a guy to get rid of them so he set these traps and would then take them to the South Shore. Our first catch was a skunk. All in all we caught 2 skunks and 4 squirrels. We're crossing our fingers that that was the whole family and we can now seal up the hole through which they were entering.
During the 1st couple of weeks in August LL continued with swimming lessons. He was at the same level as last year (Salamanders) but has now graduated to the next level. I had originally signed him up for 9-9:30 lessons with the same teacher as last year but after a couple of days we switched him to an earlier spot with a different teacher so he wouldn't miss activities at garderie. With the new teacher LL immediately started swimming without his life jacket. Yay!
The next weekend (Aug 1 and 2nd) Grant, Michelle and family came for a visit. Spent the better half of Saturday touring through the neighbourhood parks, while Sunday we took in JT market and family day at Roger's cup.
The same weekend J headed back to Toronto we inherited an old air hockey set from our next door neighbours.... more on this later...
Ann's brother J came back to Canada after spending the last year at a cooking school and stage at a restaurant. We were treated (incl. Ali and Mark) to the first demonstration on Canadian soil (J's parents and brother were lucky enough to exerience the full deal in France). Amazing, really. The rest of the week J was working on the production for cross country check-up on CBC (on the controversial swimsuit ban) so we were getting these strange calls from some guy named Mark Tewksbury.
