I finally got some time to poke around the garden with my macro lens. These are some of the pictures I got. It just reminded me how much I’ve neglected my garden this year. It seems however that the garden doesn’t really need my interfearance, as there only a few weeds. Of course as I look at it I’d like to move a bunch of things around, but hey that might just not happen until next year.
Month: September 2007
Garden flowers
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S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G
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What a memorable day!! When I picked R up from ECEC, she brought home a coloured picture of a jack-in-the-box. That wasn’t so memorable, but the top part of the page was, she had written the first 4 letters of her name!! Wow. I was so impressed, and she kept insisting she had help, meaning the techer’s aid had written in the last 3 letters. Â
So this afternoon as we were playing in the front yard, I encouraged her to spell her whole name, and the result is in the picture. Not bad! Ok, well she ran out of interest with the last 2 letters, but man 7 letters is a long name for this age!  We are so proud!
Medieval Faire
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We had a great time at the Medieval faire.  It’s held once a year at Waterloo park.  It was a chilly day. We walked around for a while, and comtemplated the purchase of a ‘pickle on a stick’.  We decided that we really didn’t want to comitt to a pickle of that size unless we knew it was a tasty garlic one.  We played some games, wandered through the maze and watched the tournament.  Afterwards we met up with the Queen of Hearts, who held R for a picture.  Check out more pictures here.
Responsibility
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Well, I tried to teach R a lesson in responsibility, and she taught me one back…
We have been trying to walk to the mailbox every night while R rides along on her trike. She has slowly been improving, the first few times she stopped every few metres, and it was a V E R Y slow walk.  Today she did much better, only one or two stops on the way there, and acutally made it up a very steep hill with only a little help.  The ride home was a different story. With about 50m to go, she gets off her trike and runs to daddy to pick her up and carry her. (She knows not to run to me to ask that, but daddy is a softie)  I pick up the trike, and walk over to her and daddy who has already picked her up.  I decided that she need to learn that if she took her bike out, she needed to bike the whole way. My little speech went like this “Rebecca, if you want to ride your trike to the mailbox, then it is your responsibility to ride it all the way there and all the way back. Then she got on the bike, and pedalled a few metres. Then she gets off, runs to daddy, and whispers to him (so I can’t hear) “Daddy it is your responsibility to carry me”.   What do you say to that??
 On another note, R had her first real day of school today at ECEC (Early Childhood Education Centre) at the University. She did very well, and wasn’t sad when I left.  I was a bit sad though!  I really like the fact that this centre has all sorts of one way windows, so I can go anytime and watch her and see what she is doing. This also means I can usually get more answers out of her when I ask what she did at school. It’s great.
Relatives
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This is really an update on extended family, for those of you who know us.  P & L and the cousins are safe in Indonesia, despite the large earthquake there a few days ago.  They have posted pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/phil.enns.  V & B are still in Ukraine, and the above picture is cute Auntie V, who does pregnancy very well.Â
First day of school
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Today was R’s first day of ECEC (Early Childhood Education Centre).  Daddy and I both dropped her off. She protested a bit, but there were no tears. She had a great morning, spending most of her time in the craft room playing in the sand, with the constuction set, painting, and using lots of glue. She’s growing up!
Harvest and Friends
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We harvested grapes today, our first crop.  I am only a little thrilled, I want the grapes to grow over our pergola first for shade, then they can produce!! We also have TONS of tomatos.  We picked a bunch today, and our friends took them off our hands to make tomato sauce.
Our friends were over, and the kids had a great time playing dress up.  Check out the gallery for those pictures.
Chinese Lantern Festival
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We managed to get to the Chinese Lantern Festival this year.  We went early, and got some supper there. Afterwards, we just walked around for a while, then caught a show. The show started with some spectacular drumming.  R like it, but only with her fingers in her ears to dull the noise. Then came a dragon dance, then lots of Chinese Martial Arts demonstrations.  R is now very enthusuastically trying to imiatae the Martial Arts that she saw, it’s pretty funny.
 Once the sun went down, things were just beautiful. It was a pleasantly warm evening, and the small ponds that were by the displays were so still, they acted like mirrors.  R also had a chance to play on the big drum, which supposedly brings the drummer luck.  Here are the pictures
Interesting Tidbits
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Here are several interesting tidbits about our dear daughter
- R has named her two hands. They are called “Mary” and “Dahla”.  The other day she was eating popcorn from a bag and she says to me “Mary and Dahla help me eat popcorn. Mary holds the bag while Dala gets the popcorn to my mouth”.
- R loves perform her version of an Irish dance. She learned this from Dorthy the Dinasaur on the Wiggles.
- She isn’t sleeping much better, but she is sleeping a bit later in the mornings, between 7 and 7:30 usually
- She starts preschool next week, she is both excited and nervous
- She stlil loves tomatos, eats lots of them right from the garden
- She points at everything with her middle finger….not her pointer
- She can write an ‘R’ very well, but doesn’t really have an interest in writing her full name, although she can write all the individual letters
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Well they’ve arrived safely…
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We heard from Auntie L today, they have arrived safely in Indonesia, where they will be for the next 3 years. Things sound different but exciting. I hope they start up a blog soon.
