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It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Chloe update. She is up to 14 lbs, and Susan thinks she has stopped growing, I think she still has a little more to go. She started out in the bed, but she slowly ended up sleeping on the floor.
She loves her bucket, this one has cracked, but she still plays with it everyday. We’ll have to look for a new one in the summer.
What little snow we got this winter sure liked to stick to Chloe. She would come in covered in snow.
While I was away, the flu was going through the girls, and I caught the tail end when I got home. Angela was off early in the week followed by Claudia. Unfortunately this was also the week for the speech competition at school. Both were able to go to school that day and do their speeches in the gym, but they weren’t 100%. Neither Claudia or Angela placed, but Susan said they did an excellent job, and Susan was the only parent there who had two kids in the gym.
I spent the first week of the Olympics in Stephenville Newfoundland. It was bad enough trying to stay awake in Mississauga with the 3 hour time difference, try the 4.5 hour difference. Suprisingly, the winter out there has been similar to ours, a little bit more snow, but not as much as usual.
I was scheduled to be back early Friday morning, things were going to plan, settled into my priority seat. There were electrical problems with the system, so they tried the Airbus equivalent of the Ctrl-Alt-Del. After a few attempts, they announced the flight was cancelled. When they cancel a flight due to plane problems in Toronto, they just shuffle things around and voila, a new plane, you’re good to go. In Deer Lake, when they cancel a direct flight back to Toronto on an Airbus 319, you’re pretty much screwed as there are no other planes.
Eventually they re-booked us on a 12:15 pm flight to Toronto, not bad, only about six hours to wait. Through the morning, things got worse, 12:15 turned into 13:00, than 14:00, then 14:45 and finally 15:15.
There was some consolation when they announced over the PA that the plane had left Montreal. The ground technician covering up the engines, as they were expecting some weather to pass through.
It was almost 12 hours later than my original arrival time, but it was good to be home. A lot of people on the flight were going to destinations beyond Toronto, so they were scrambling to rebook their connecting flights. Many were going to the Olympics and down south. When the second plane arrived, it was starting to look like Pearson.
Angela is also going on to the gym for the speech arts competition. Her and Claudia will be in the same division. Angela’s speech is on genetically modified foods. Unfortunately I’m in Newfoundland next week and will miss them. Their speeches are on Thursday morning. Good Luck to both of them.
Gillian got her report card today for her first semester and she did great. She worked hard and it paid off with a 90 average. She has started second semester and has English, Science, Geography and Business.
Claudia was one of two kids in her class who were chosen to go on to the gym for the speech competition. Her speech was on the World’s Fastest Things. She has some time to practice and memorize her speech.
Today we started round two of braces. I took Angela this morning to get braces on her top teeth. She was pretty excited about getting them on. Here she is before we left.
And here she is with them on. She gets her bottom ones on at the beginning of April.
Tonight all three girls were going to Gillian’s Pathfinder meeting. Gillian’s group was putting on a play for all the area Sparks, Brownie and Guide groups. Gillian and the other third year Pathfinders put the show together as part of ther Canada Cord requirements. That’s Gillian in the middle. Their play was called “Fractured Fairy Tales”.
It was a good show and they put a lot of hard work into organizing it for the past couple of months.
Guide, Pathfinder, Guide
What’s the chair about? At the school we were at, they had boxes of new folding chairs. As Chair of our school council, one of my goals is to do a fundraiser to help purchase new chairs for our school. Our school still has the wood seat and metal leg chairs that most will remember from their days at grade school. They are wobbly, they have cracks and are all round uncomfortable. My idea is to have families donate a chair and then recognize them by creating a plaque with names. Originally I thought we could put the plaque right on the chair, but it probably wouldn’t last that long. I’ll let you know this goes.
We all watched Uncle Tak’s special on Bravo TV tonight. The girls like his special location for all his awards and degrees. We were able to see them this past summer when we were at his place on Vancouver Island. They also liked seeing themselves in the show. If you watch closely at the end you’ll see us at the McMichael Art Gallery with Uncle Tak.
If you missed it there is an encore presentation Friday, February 5 at 7e/4p. Download the show by clicking on the link Takao Tanabe: A Work of Art. You can watch the show by clicking on the image below. (114 MB) If you need a Flv standalone player try the FREE Wimpy Desktop FLV Player (for both Windows and Mac).
There hasn’t been much activity on the blog this month. We have been busy with the usual things, work, school and more work and school. Gillian had her first set of exams last week and she is confident she did well. Angela and Claudia have been working on their speeches for speech arts. It is Claudia’s first time doing a speech, her topic is “The World’s Fastest Things” and Angela is doing “Genetically Modified Foods”.
It would be nice if we had some snow, at least the girls would be out there playing, that’s usually good for a few photos.
I have been busy at work with a hiring process, we have been trying to get everything done and offer letters out before the pro-rogued government comes back and puts on a hiring freeze as part of their deficit cutting. An indication of the job market, for an entry level technician position, we had multiple candidates with their Masters degree, one with a double Masters, a PhD, and a double Bachelor’s degree . One of the abilities we test is “the ability to assemble and disassemble equipment”. This might be the test we use next time.
A reminder that Takao Tanabe: A Work of Art is on Bravo tonight at 8:00 EST.
We headed downtown today to see Uncle Tak’s show at the Mira Godard gallery. We parked at Yorkdale and took the subway down. That’s still a good deal, $10.00 for the Day Pass, that would have got Grandpa 2.5 hours of parking. Here are the girls outside the gallery in Yorkville.
It looked like all the paintings were sold. Even the one that the girls recognized from his studio this past summer. We were there before the rush, so we got a chance to visit with Uncle Tak and Anona. He’s waiting for Claudia to start growing.
We waited around for Grandma and Grandpa to show up, but there was no sign of them so we headed out. As we walked out the door, they came walking up. It turned out Grandpa couldn’t find a parking spot, so he finally broke down and parked in the paid parking. While we were standing outside a couple walked up to Dad and it turned out to be Nori Tanaka, Bobby’s daughter.
A couple of galleries down was this sculpture, from the way the Leafs have been playing, he could probably help.
We headed down to Bloor Street in search of a Starbucks.
Found one, but couldn’t sit down, so we had to sit in the Winners entrance.
On the way to the gallery we were waiting to cross Bay Street at one of the lights and this old lady started talking to no one in particular, but mainly towards Gillian, about how she should have a hat on and she shouldn’t be wearing a spring coat in the middle of winter. It was a red light, so she went on and on about it and was still going at it while we crossed the street. It was pretty funny.
