It’s the start of birthday week for Angela and the end for G-ma and G-pa. We headed out to Scarborough for dinner and cake. First up was Grandma’s cake.
Then Grandpa’s cake.
Emi having a good laugh.
And finally Angela’s cake.
Chloe liked looking out Grandma’s window.
It was a sad day for the girls and Chloe. Our long time caregiver to both the girls and Chloe was packing up their rental truck on Saturday morning. Karen has been looking after the girls since Claudia was 6 months old, Claudia turns ten in a couple of months. Karen has been coming over to let Chloe out in the mornings since last September, on some days Chloe would go over to her house for the day. Chloe will miss her buddy Hailey who she would bug when she was there.
Who are we going to get our renovation ideas from. Karen and Ken have the same style house as us, and when they would change something, we could picture our house looking the same, kind of like having our own model home.They are moving to Milton, so they won’t be that far away. Thanks to Karen, Ken, Stephanie and Ryan for all their help over the years.
The girls were at Grandma’s and Papa’s place for a couple of days during March Break. They went to see Alice in Wonderland with Grandma while they were there.
Angela relaxing on Grandma’s couch.
Gillian was able to hook into one of Grandma’s neighbours wireless signal.
The lack of blog updates through the end of February can be squarely blamed on the Olympics. Actually the lack of anything getting done around the house could be blamed on the Olympics. The girls really enjoyed them and were sad to see them go, okay so was I. Gillian wants to try curling next year at school.
We headed out to Mom and Dad’s for New Years. There wasn’t enough snow this year to go tobogganing. Here is Angela and Chloe in front of Grandma and Grandpa’s house. They received a certificate from the office of the city councillor for Ward 43 for their front garden this year. It was in recognition of beautifying the neighbourhood. I asked if they had a picture of it, but they didn’t, so this is the best I can do.
Angela and Emi.
Almost dinner time.
Mom and Dad putting out the food.
Brad was in Montreal, so Melissa was taking pictures of his favourite foods and sending them to him.
Dessert time.
Melissa and Angela playing Wii.
Happy New Year and wishing you a healthy, prosperous 2010!
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.
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.
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.
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.
We took advantage of another good weekend and the girls rake up the last of the leaves in the backyard. First they all had to try on the yard waster bag. Can you tell who is who?
Chloe going crazy for the broom. It looks like she is stuck to the broom.
She kind of looks like a little ewok.
A little more calm.
