Month: August 2007

R is really into the idea of “marriage”.  I don’t know what prompted this phase but it sure if funny.  We had all the cousins over for dinner, and during a (rare) pause in the conversation, my daughter asks the whole table “Do you guys like being married?”  We all cracked up.   Wow.   So later in the evening the girls were playing dress up.  R wanted to stay in the frog costume as the cousins were leaving.   She asks S, “will you marry me?” and then they played they were married, then she asked her older cousin K, will you marry me too?   So the picture is of the frog, and 2 married girls!

We’ve been trying to get to the pool every few days with R.  On Friday night Grandpa told her to swim under water, then come up and take a breath, then put her head  back down and swim more.  So on Saturday, she went swimming with daddy, and she swam half of the length of the pool using the up/down technique!!

Today she was ‘diving’ into the pool.  Wow.

I am please to report that as of 11:30pm today I have finished piecing R’s 100 good wishes quilt.  I just need to add the border, then get it quilted. 

Wow.  R spent last night sleeping over at Oma & Opa’s house.   Her 3 cousins were also there.   It sounds like they had a great time.  Apparently they watched a movie, and had a large bowl of cheesies at 10pm!  My girl was up until midnight, although she slept through until 6am!  Oma says she woke up to a tap on her shoulder and R’s little face near hers saying “Oma did you miss me?”.   What a hoot.

 

It was another sweltering day.  Around 32 degrees with the humidex (for those of you who don’t know what that means, it is measure of exactly how miserable we are! ok, “combines air temperature and relative humidity to determine an apparent temperature — how hot it actually feels”). 

Anyways, I digress.  We met the cousins at the pool and found out the pool was filled to capacity, we’d have to wait to get in.  So we changed plans and came back to our house.  The kids played in the two kiddie pools, but ended up having the most fun with mixing water and sidewalk chalk to get a paste, then decorating the patio.  Very artistic.  K as you can see, had lots of fun with the green chalk.  More pictures here.

Today was R’s last gymnastics class.  For the most part she has really enjoyed it.   We usually start in the kiddie gym, where there is pint size equipment.   Mid-class we go downstairs to the big gym, with the large equipment.  Lots of kids are in classes/training there.  R never wants to go in, as she complains to me it is “stinky”.  She gets so upset she’s almost in tears!  She always perks up once in there though.  Her teacher was great, and she helped R do headstands and handstands.  R learned how to do a ‘skin the cat’ at this class.   It was great fun, and our friend G was there too.  More pictures are in the gallery.

We were at the African Lion Safari today.  It was a fun day.   The highlight for Albert was feeding the goats.  I must admit it was fun as well, and R wasn’t afraid of the goats this year!  She had a great time feeding them.  Daddy distracted some of the larger more agressive goats, and she would walk over and try to find a specific goat to feed.  It was hilarious.   We went on a train ride around the site, saw Elephants go for a swim, R had a pony ride, and of course we drove through the safari, hence the title.  These very large deer (Elands actually, 2metres plus tall) boxed us in, one at the front driver’s side, and one at the left rear.  And directly in front was a Buick.  We had to wait until the Elands got bored.  For the first time we actually took our own car through the monkey area.  We were very disapointed to be dissed by all the monkeys.   They were climbing other cars and sitting on them, but not ours!  :-(  We have to find a pick up truck to go through with next time, as the monkeys could not stop jumping in and out of the pick-up beds.  Great fun.  Check out R and the goats in the gallery.

Today was R’s last “Creative Movement” class.   She’s being doing this once a week since the beginning of summer.  We got to watch the last class.   R moved her way through the class, hardly stopping. Please excuse some of the pictures, she was moving so much I got quite a few blurry ones!  She was delighted to get a certificate at the end of class.  When the teacher handed her the certificate, she said “Thank you VERY much”!  Check out the gallery.

I am so proud!! These are some of my first tomatos from the garden.  I believe they are from a a variety called “Ugly”.  My plants are all overgrown together, so this is my best guess.   This is the biggest tomato I’ve ever seen!  And tasty too I might add.