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Report Cards and Interviews

Angela and Claudia brought home their report cards this week, they both did well. I went in for the interviews with their teachers today. Claudia's teacher was filling in for a mat leave, so he is finished in a week and then Claudia will have a new teacher. Angela's teacher was Gillian's teacher in grade one, that was her first fulltime teaching gig. Gillian is on semester so she received her mid-term report and her highest mark was in gym, go figure. She is doing good and has adjusted well to high school.

Chloe and Bella

We went to Ikea for the breakfast combo today. The breakfast combo is the $1.00 breakfast and because we're there we inevitably buy the rest of the combo. The best way to keep the combo down is to take the Yaris. While we were there Gillian received a text from Sarah to see if we could let Bella out through the day. We thought why not just bring Bella over and her and Chloe can play, or rather Chloe could bug Bella all day. Eventually Chloe settled down and she followed Bella around.

I had them outside for some photos. I asked them to look at me.

Then look up and to the left.

Look away from each other.

Look at each other.

Another Play date for Chloe

Chloe had another buddy over to the house. Karen who was our sitter for the girls and now comes over and lets Chloe out during the day has put their house on the market. They were having a couple of showings tonight, so they asked if Hailey could come over for a couple of hours. Susan and I had a School Council meeting, but the girls were home. Karen has brought Hailey over during the day when she lets Chloe out, so they get along. Of course Chloe being the puppy she is, gets all spazzy and is always bugging Hailey.

Chloe waiting for her picture to be taken, but Hailey wasn't co-operating.

Chloe's Sweater

I made Chloe a sweater to keep her a little warmer in the snow. I had made Coco a sweater like this years ago. Here is Chloe modelling her sweater.

It is made from a hockey sock. Not having any lying around the house, I had to go buy one. We picked the Detroit Red Wings colours since it was closest to the Team Canada colours. Our other choices were the Habs (never!), the Kings (black on black, we'd never see her at night) or the Leafs (didn't want her buddies to make fun of her).

Santa Visit

The girls and I headed down to the mall for the annual photo with Santa. We went to the Erin Mills Town Centre where the "good" Santa is. As always, as we wait in line waiting for him to come we wonder if it is the real Santa. We got to the mall just before his 6:00 PM shift started so the line wasn't bad. When it was the girls turn, Santa's first question to Gillian was how old she was. Gillian told him and at the end when they were leaving he said to her "your a good sport!". As I was waiting for the photo, I could hear Santa saying a little louder than usual "what kind of hair dryer was that?".

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Chloe and the Snow

Chloe is still adjusting to the snow. The first morning it really snowed she spent a lot of time running around trying to catch the snowflakes. She digs, she eats the snow and she pees wherever she wants. We shovelled off the deck and some of the grass area for her. Since there is still snow on the deck she hasn't quite figured out that under the snow is the deck. Next time it snows we'll have to shovel just a trail for her to get out to the grass. Claudia shovelled the deck and more of the deck is showing, so now she goes right out to the grass.

She comes in from the outside and she has snow all stuck to her beard.

Angela and Chloe.

Chloe likes to look out the window, especially when someone goes out the door.

Chloe and the Snowman

The girls built a snowman on the back deck and Chloe sat there and barked at it for awhile.

Eventually she stopped barking and decided she was going to chew on his arm.

Christmas Tree

We got our tree up and decorated. We discovered that some of our lights didn't work, so Susan went to buy a new string of lights. The new ones were LED and once we got them on, the LED's made the tree look green and the old lights made the tree look brown. Of course that wouldn't do, so the old lights needed to be replaced. For the first week or two, Chloe thought the tree was her personal chew and water station. If she wasn't trying to drink the water, then she was either chewing on the branches or stealing the ornaments at the bottom of the tree. She is either getting better or we have now moved all the ornaments from the bottom of the tree and there is nothing left.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends. Here is our yearly family photo. We had two good ones, but this one caught Chloe giving Claudia a big smooch.

Here is our photo of the girls in their santa hats.

And with their Olympic Mittens. See Chloe holding her hat.

The girls were serving at 8:00 mass, so they were up early to check out what Santa brought. They were allowed to open their stocking presents before church, but had to wait until we got back to finish. Here are some round 1 photos.

Christmas Round 2

Once we were back from church, the girls were right into their presents. Claudia behind her giant box of Lego.

Gillian with her hair dryer, I think this is the one Santa was asking her about when they went to see Santa.

Angela with her very own camera.

A Dog-filled Christmas

We headed out to Lori and Dale's for Christmas dinner. We brought Chloe with us to celebrate with her buddies. We thought there would be four dogs, but it turned out to be five. Sara and Brent showed up with Pretzel, a Rat Terrier/Chihuahua cross.

Lori's Christmas Tree with a few presents still under it.

Here are four of the five dogs, Chloe and her black coat sticks out like a sore thumb. Mickey and Nike are getting old and for the most part ignored the puppies.

Here are Kiely and Chloe, it's not what it looks like, They were tearing around the house and then they would come barrelling down the stairs. When Chloe got to the second step, she would leap off the stairs, this time she came down right on top of Kiely. Kiely is a couple of months older than Chloe and has more energy than Chloe.

Melissa and Eric checkng out her Netbook.

Alex sporting his 'fro.

Claudia on paper patrol.

Grandpa with his new Wii.

Emi and Pretzel.

Brad, Lisa and a couple of dogs.

Chloe waiting for the door to open. Mickey and Nike have a bowl of food that sits out for them all day, and when Chloe discovered it she was all over it, hence the reason the door is closed.

The girls and their jar of flavoured jelly beans. The general consensus was that nobody likes the popcorn flavoured ones.

Pretzel playing with Chloe.

Melissa in her Obi-wan Kenobi costume. May the force be with you!

Kiely and Chloe.

They finally tired and took a break.

Boxing Day

The Swan's were over for Boxing Day turkey soup and sandwiches. Susan had made a turkey earlier in the week, but we weren't allowed to have any (She did let me have enough for a turkey sandwich in my lunch on Christmas Eve). Claudia had a hard time figuring out why Mom had made a turkey, but we weren't eating it. Here is Grandma and Claudia playing triangular Blokus.

Ready for dessert.

Waiting for the Snow.

The girls got snowshoes for Christmas, but no snow to go with it. Here are Angela and Claudia trying them out in the backyard.

Claudia and Angela with Claudia's marble race.

Uncle Tak Update

Uncle Tak is having a show in Toronto next month at the Mira Godard Gallery. It runs from January 30th to February 27th, it covers "The Early Years 1951 - 1965". This one is from 1957 called Interior Arrangement with Red Hills.

Takao Tanabe: A Work of Art premieres Sunday, January 31 at 8e/5p only on Bravo! There is an encore presentation Friday, February 5 at 7e/4p. You can watch a preview clip or click on the image below. (7 MB)

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