Category: Old-Rainwater

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2009
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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.

Family photo

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

The Girls

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

The Girls

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.

The Girls

Angela

Claudia

Gillian

Chloe

Angela and Claudia

Christmas Tree

December 16, 2009
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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.

Christmas Tree

Chloe and the Snowman

December 13, 2009
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The girls built a snowman on the back deck and Chloe sat there and barked at it for awhile.

Chloe

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

Chloe

Chloe and the Snow

December 12, 2009
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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.

Claudia and Chloe

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

Chloe

Angela and Chloe.

Angela and Chloe

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

Chloe

Santa Visit

December 10, 2009
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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?”.

Santa and the girls

Chloe’s Sweater

December 9, 2009
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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.

Chloe

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).

Chloe

Another Play date for Chloe

December 8, 2009
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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.

Hailey and Chloe

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

Hailey and Chloe

Chloe and Bella

December 6, 2009
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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.

Bella and Chloe

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

Bella and Chloe

Then look up and to the left.

Bella and Chloe

Look away from each other.

Bella and Chloe

Look at each other.

Bella and Chloe

Report Cards and Interviews

December 4, 2009
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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.

Report card

Final Trip?

November 29, 2009
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What should be my final trip before the end of the year starts tomorrow for four days. I’m heading to Chapais, Quebec up near Chibougamou. I’m flying to Montreal, then to Val D’or and then it is another 4.5 hour drive to Chapais. The weather is suppose to be good and the operator has said there isn’t too much snow on the ground. This trip gets me to Prestige Aeroplan status, but I fell short of the Elite status.

Chapais