True Patriot Love

Finally (now that he's almost 3) received Mckay's proof of Canadian Citizenship.
Strange, he is automatically Canadian, but we had to apply for him to have proof (since he was born in the US he doesn't have a Canadian Birth Certificate. We had to send his application, ID to prove I was Canadian, and three pieces of ID for him. Finding three pieces of legal ID (and not crafts from school) for a two year old is not easy.

Next step is his Canadian passport, and start working on citizenship for Dan. We're all starting to get a bit homesick for the "True North". Now we just have to find jobs, sell the house, and figure out how to get all our pets and stuff 4500km away. Google says this will take 2 days, 0 hours.

Grandma lives at ATL

Had a midweek adventure this week by visiting Grandma Cokey at her weekend home at ATL.

She was flying through to Jacksonville and had a 4 hour layover at ATL, so us and our burb relatives The Coys made the trek out to the airport to give her a little bit of lovin'. Needless to say her Airtran flight from Midway was delayed. But this allowed us a leisurely dinner (with GREAT beer) at Six Feet Under (so named because it is across from the Oakland cemetery).


The Coy boys are growing up, it was great talking to them to give me a preview of the years down the road. I have to admit, 7yr old Jeffrey asking me "What rock bands do you like" caused a moment of silence. I asked at work the next day (most of the lab is young 20 things...) and the correct answer is "Green Day" or "Gwen Stefani". Oh well :)

I'm done for...

...if McKay is going to keep up this level of cute.

We were playing at the park after dinner tonight, and we told him we were going to go home to see if the neighbour kids were still playing in their front yard.

They weren't.

McKay was quite upset that he had to leave a perfectly serviceable playground to go back home to play with people that weren't even there. Lorraine said, "Oh, no, I think his heart is broken."

McKay said, "My heart is broken," then lifted up his shirt to expose his chest, and said, "see?"

Totally done for.

First Slumber Party

McKay had his first sleep over.

We, his absentee parents, had a fabulous time at dinner and a show, returning home at 1:30am.
His host family survived, but we're not sure how well. I think McKay's activity level tends to overwhelm people who haven't been with him since birth. He really doesn't stop moving. Ever.

McKay ended up sleeping with his host Mum, and his buddy Max ended up sleeping with host Dad.

We hope to reciprocate the night out (this really wasn't about the kids) next weekend and have Max and Baby Ester at our house. I'm looking forward to having a little one in the house and suspect the event might re-affirm our "caught our limit" belief.

Canada Day 2005

Happy Canada Day.

McKay wore red and white today, and brought his flag to school in his new Knapsack with the Canada Flag patch on it that he got from Grandma and Grampa May. He's now good to travel in Europe.

He says he showed the flag to his friends, and told them not to break it. He was dissapointed there was no cake or presents on Canada day. Then again, so was I.