Month: June 2011

Cousin L has been here for the past year from Germany. It has been great to have her here, I am so glad I got to know her better, and I’m glad my kids got to know her. L, we’ll miss you!

Well she finally lost it! It was so wiggly that it was hanging crooked. During breakfast she wiped her mouth with her napkin, and it just droped out. So now I have my gappy girl for real! I can already see the one tooth coming through, so she won’t be gappy for long.
It was a lovely hot day. The kids had a good time playing in the yard. J really seems to like the water table. Funny, R never did. Well, I guess she did, but her idea of playing with it was dunking her head in it. J actually seems to ‘play’!!

R lost her first front tooth today. It had been crazy loose for a few days. She looks so gappy now! Even so, the one next to it is also crazy crooked and almost ready to come out. She seems pretty happy.

J did super well at therapy today. He stood by himself quite a bit. He walked with just some help by the therapist holding his ankles. He somehow still needs that assurance that he feels you holding him somewhere. Anyways. To get him to walk, you sort of nudge the leg he is supposed to move. Very funny. I managed to get him to let go of my hands at home and stand by himself for a while. After school R and J munched on a snack while sitting in the yard.

All fortified, the kids felt they had the strength to watch grandpa do some work on those never ending tree pieces.

So a few days ago my dad noticed a tree down in our yard. If you’ve ever been over, you know that our yard is quite long (270+feet) and slopes up toward the back. The last 20 feet or so is what I call bush. We lost a big tree in here. Luckily it didn’t take down our glass house, or the neighbour’s fence. Still it was quite the chore to get through, given that it was suspended in the air, and aronud 16 inches in diameter…I’ll get more pics up soon.