The Little One

Our little one is 10 months old! At 10 months old Matilda is smiling, cruising along the furniture, crawling anywhere and everywhere, eating like a monster with her four teeth (though when she's done or doesn't like something she'll spit it right out!), and dancing to music (put on some Michael Buble and she shakes her little bottom).

One of her favourite things to do is look out the front window

And though she's seems happy in all the photos this is the face we mainly saw this week because for her 10 month birthday Matilda got the Roseola virus! That meant 3 days of 102F fever and then yesterday she got...

a rash all over her little body! But the rash means the virus is on its way out...I've never been so happy to see a rash in my life!

More Summer Fun

A couple of weeks ago I tried a new bubble activity with Anna. You take a plastic water bottle with the bottom cut off, an old sock and some detergent. Dip the bottle covered with the sock and blow out and you make....

Bubble snakes!!! Pretty neat huh? Of course Anna is 3 and no matter how many times I told her/demonstrated that you blow OUT...she is only 3 so it was inevitable that this would happen....

She swallowed the soap! Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase washing your mouth out with soap!

We also had fun painting with some leftover condensed milk. We added food colouring to the condensed milk which makes a shiny sticky paint.. It also tastes a lot better than soap!

Walks and backyard play became more fun with the addition of a bubble gun...

And afternoons in the pool always produce big smiles!

Really?

It was sunny today. We played outside. We even went swimming. And then it was 4:30 pm. And that's when the rain started. It rained so hard I sent a sent a text to Alastair telling him we were having a Nashville rain storm. And then it was raining so hard I took pictures of our street turning into a river. Anna actually said to me,"mommy how is daddy going to get home?". I learned from the Nashville flood so I checked the house for flooding. It was dry then. And now here we sit 5 hours later and Alastair is in the basement mopping up water. We're not flooded but it is wet. Our neighbors  basement is completely flooded. We're lucky but all we keep thinking is 2 houses in a row get flooded? Really? I keep thinking about the story of the 3 little pigs... The house shouldn't be made of bricks I want a house on stilts! Oh the power also went out about 4 hours ago. The girls and I enjoyed a romantic dinner by candlelight. Anna loved it since I can't open the fridge we got to have apples and crackers for dinner. Time to sign off... Only 54% battery life on my phone left....fingers crossed we'll have power in the morning. I really wish I had charged my iPad today.....oh and I forgot to mention....it's still raining.

Splish Splash!

Yesterday we went to one of the cities many splash pads. I'm actually not a big fan of the splash pad. Most of the ones I've seen are basically are just a giant circle with water spouting from the middle. It just didn't seem fun or clean. But the one we went to yesterday...it was new...it was clean....it was amazing!!

Anna kept running and yelling, "C'mon Mommy! C'mon Daddy! This way!"

There were water fountains galore to run through....

This place was unbelievable...if there had been a pool it would have been just like the YMCA in Tennessee....

There was even a small area for the little ones...Matilda crawled right towards the water!

Rainbow water fountains ...

And snakes to watch out for!

And a giant frog for two happy girls to sit on!

O Canada

It was Canada Day on Monday so we set off on an adventure to celebrate all things Canadian!

We started out day on a 1930's tall ship cruise around the Toronto Harbour..

We enjoyed the views of the city...

 We looked through our binoculars...

We jumped up and down pretending to be pirates and yelling "Arrr matey!" as loud as we could...!

After the boat ride we walked around the harbour front where we did Canadian crafts like this canadian colours pinwheel

Then we did what Anna was probably the most excited about...she got her face painted like a .....

 cat! For the rest of the day she kept saying meow!

We practiced our dance moves to live music...

And when Anna saw this she said, "Look it's a Canada leaf!" And then she yelled, "Happy Canada Day!"

 There were a lot of Canada flags being given away so we tricked out our stroller with as many as we could!

We also went to Ribfest over the weekend where Matilda greedily ate her first BBQ rib!

 Yummy!