Auntie Emily's Summer Visit

"Auntie Emily" came for a visit in mid-August. She only stayed 3 days but we packed a in a lot of fun! We miss her a lot already!

We went to the Scarborough Bluffs and tried out one of Emily's newest hobbies, 'slack lining', where you walk on a rope. The rope is a flat woven fabric.

We had a great time at the Scarborough Bluffs beach building sandcastles.

Connor and Auntie Emily played in the water together.

We enjoyed a beachside lunch at Woodbine Beach as well, then went to the playground too!

We all went to a playplace and had lots of fun with all the playplace toys!

Auntie Emily had a great time with Liam too!

Time for a nap after the playplace and a full tummy!

Connor's Tattoo

Check out Connor's tough guy tattoo! He was gifted a sheet of temporary tattoos for his birthday - Cars and Spiderman. The one he's got on his arm is Sarge from Cars. He picked the spot on his arm - the same spot that Daddy has his tattoo!

Learning to Save

Yesterday I took Connor and Liam to the bank and finally set up an Ontario bank account, and set up the two kids with accounts as well. Everyone needed identification; a passport was sufficient (I have passports for both kids). To my surprise, the bank account representative asked Connor to sign his name on the application form! Here is a photo of his very first self-signed official document!

Connor still doesn't really understand the concept of money and saving, other than the fact that it does require money to buy toys. We deposited all his birthday money into his account, and afterwards went to Toys R Us and he picked out a Thomas Toy Train, named "Diesel Ten".  

The event took a lot longer than expected and Connor ended up eating 3 mint candies, half a box of Pocky chocolate sticks, one pack Baby Mum Mums, and all the Vegetable Thin crackers I had brought in a very small container.

Attached is also a goofy photo that Linds took of Liam with a silly little toy hat on his head. The hat is from a large German soldier doll that we picked up at a garage sale on Sunday.

It's fun to be 3 years old!

Yes oh yes to be 3 years old again!  Connor has lots of fun flying through the air as an airplane with Daddy - see the video. Connor also loves jumping on us (which annoys me to no end right now, with my big tummy!) and loves piggy-back rides.  



He also loves - and is pretty good at - playing with 'big boys' Lego these days! Linds started buying sets for ages 4, 5 and even 6 years old for Connor (and for himself too, he says!).  Well, some of these sets actually Connor picked them out himself at the Lego Store, it's not that Linds actually picked out the ones for 6-years old. Connor picks the ones that are police vehicles, helicoptors, and I know he wants to get one that's the entire police station / jail but of course that would bankrupt us :). The picture of the Lego vehicle here is one that Connor built himself! Just goes to prove that you never know what children are capable of. There's also a video below of Connor and his Daddy playing with Lego, although in this video Connor is mostly just singing and Daddy is the one creating a Lego boat.