Claudia got her top braces on today, in two and a half years we’ll be braces free. Gillian is done and Angela gets hers off in a couple of weeks.
City Centre
We headed down to the central library, Angela wanted to get a book that she had put a hold on. We parked underground and came up near the new skating rink.
The Absolute Condo building, better known as the Marilyn building. The 56th floor penthouse is on the market for $3.2 million. It has a 180-degree view of the lake and city skyline, you also get 4 parking spots and your own elevator.
The Celebration Square stage.
Hacked!
The site was briefly hacked on January 8th. For about 6 hours, if you had visited the site, you would have been greeted by something other than the usual Rainwater Rambling. I was able to clean things up and get it back to normal. As a result I held off on posts to monitor the site traffic and see if there were repeated attacks. So far so good.
Happy New Year!
We headed out to Mom and Dad’s for New Year’s Day. Sara and Lily came so we got to play pass the baby around. Here she is with Great Auntie Susan wide awake and alert.
She’s a cutie!
Not so happy with Great G-Pa.
Four people playing Whirly-Word on an iPhone.
There was lots of food, as usual more than we could eat. Mom’s traditional fish that never gets eaten. This year Emi and Danny ripped it open. It was a New Zealand Snapper.
Lots of tako (octopus).
Chloe was good as usual. Just had to hide from Emi for some peace.
Brad made the sushi. It was very good.
Some squid.
Claudia’s favourite, chow mein.
Some salmon sashimi.
And another plate of maguro (tuna).
A bowl of kazunoko (herring eggs).
Inarizushi (brown bag sushi).
Shanna, David and Jesse Skyped in from Rossland. Next year we need to bring some speakers and a microphone.
Dessert time, fruit salad (made by Gillian), fruit salad without jello (for Melissa), strawberries, jello jiggles, cookies, apple pies, and a Christmas ice cream log.
Lily with Great Auntie Carolyn.
Lily in her pj’s sitting with GG-pa and ready to go home.
Bowling
We were hoping to go skating down at Celebration Square, but with the rain we had to change plans. We went to Streetsville Bowl and played a couple of games. Susan won the first game and Claudia and I tied the second game. Here is Claudia after delivering her shot.
Being a Friday night they had the lights off and the spotlights going. It was hard to see the markers on the lanes to aim, at least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Finally Some Snow
The girls were happy that we finally got some snow that stuck around. Angela and Claudia’s first snowman.
Chloe enjoying the snow.
Claudia taking a break.
Chloe is pretty good about sitting for a picture.
Later in the day I set up the camera on a tripod and then was throwing the ball for her. Using the remote for the shutter I was able to catch her catching the ball.
Making Mochi
Angela, Claudia and I headed into Scarborough to make some mochi at G-ma and G-pa’s. Gillian has her in-class driving school this week so she missed out. The girls watching Grandpa showing them how it’s done.
Grandma cutting the mochi.
Lots and lots of mochi.
Boxing Day
We headed out to Dundas on Boxing Day for some turkey soup and games. The girls played a game of Rummoli with Grandma, Uncle Ken and Aunt Bev. Here is Uncle Ken trying to deal himself the 7-8-9.
Some of the pots started to pile up.
Aunt Bev winning a hand.
Claudia keeping an eye on Uncle Ken, making sure he wasn’t cheating.
Angela with her winnings.
Grandma winning the 7-8-9 sequence.
Grandma winning another pot.
Christmas Dinner (or a Post of Lily and some other random people)
We headed out to Hamilton for Christmas dinner at Lori and Dale’s place. It was our first time to meet baby Lily. Here is Angela holding her new first cousin once removed.
Claudia and Lily.
Gillian and Lily.
Lily and the girls.
Melissa discovering the Photo Booth filters on the iPad.
Angela showing Melissa how it’s done.
Brad playing Headbanz with the kids. “Do I have cheese on me?”
If you happen to fall asleep, Melissa was there with the iPad making a distorted picture.
Alex and Emi with their Wii.
Susan and Lily.
G-pa opening their iPad.
Shanna called from Rossland and I was able to set-up Skype on G-ma and G-pa’s iPad so we could Skype with her, Jesse and David.
After dinner Lily was up and another go round of pass the baby.
Lots of pictures of Susan and Lily.
There was a poker game going on with Claudia, Lisa, Brad, Danny, Gillian and Angela.
Brad pulled out his poker chips and eventually lured G-pa into the game.
Soon the stakes had risen.
I think this was before everyone discovered FaceTime.
Back to more Lily photos, diaper was changed and things are good.
Lily in her stocking.
Posing for multiple pictures.
Lily will be a month old on Boxing Day.
Sara and Lily.
Lily looking at the lights on the tree.
The girls taking one last turn with Lily.
How are we related? This question was raised by the girls, here is a chart to figure things out.
Merry Christmas!
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas from the Tanabe’s!
