Splendour of Nature

Ahhhhhh, bright light. My retinas! Do it again, Do it again.

Summersaults in the water

Remember, don't cross this line, that you are on the other side of.....

Decided to try camping this weekend. We thought to ourselves, "One night, less than 24 hours, it'll be fun".

1. Rain. All night.
   
2. Bad camping neighbours (headlights on tent makes toddler SURE it is morning)
3. First words this morning, while we were still in bed, together; "I need dry clothes....I peed". (remember, no more diapers anymore...).
   

It was fun, and we WILL do it again, but maybe not soon.

Beach Party.

We Spent Friday night with several thousand other people at the Decatur Beach Party. They close off 3 blocks of streets, and fill them with many many tons of beach sand.

Lots of pools and sprinklers for the kids, lots of beer and beach tunes for the adults. It's quite surreal to be looking across the street at the barber where your kid gets his hair cut while running through a sprinkler. Sort of a combination of fighting the crowds on Canada Day at Parliment hill and lounging on the beach in the Mayan Riviera.

Pack Animals....

Puck has finally accepted Mckay as one of the pack.

Dan and I were puttering around cleaning up for the imminent arrival of house guests. McKay had been tucked in, and was playing in his room with toys. Puck very pointedly came into the study with Dan and I where we were making the bed. We ignored him, and continued to move in and out of the room. Dan sat at the desk to clear off some papers, Puck prodded him with his rawhide bone in the Universal, "Hold this for me " way. Dan said, "Puck, not now..."

Puck left the room, and a few minutes later we noticed he was in with McKay happily chewing his bone on the play mat. This was the first time he chose to be with McKay when there was no food involved.

p.s.: Potty has been conquered, clean and dry for 2weeks!

Speaks the Language

McKay has been getting really good at idiomatic English.
We know where he has heard some of them, others, we're not so sure.

Tonight, he was pulling things off his bookshelf, causing a book avalanche onto his toes & lower legs.

This clip was what we heard next. Dan cried laughing for 10 minutes while I kept a straight face and acted the concerned Mama.

Et tu, McKay?

I went shopping yesterday morning for Lorraine's b-day, with McKay in tow. After we were done, he spent the afternoon with Lorraine. When I got home, she told me that he unabashedly and without reservation told Lorraine what we went shopping for.

Can't take the kid anywhere anymore...