Have fun in GRADE ONE!

Today was the first day of school...Anna is starting GRADE ONE!!! It was only a short 2 hour day and the kids stayed with last year's teacher...so tomorrow will be Anna's official first day in Grade One. And is she excited! Anna came home full of Grade One information....Her class is on the second floor! She gets her own desk! We need to bring her school supplies tomorrow! She gets her own desk! (this is the one she's most excited about!). 

We're jammin'

It's blackberry picking season! The blackberries are abundant and ripe for the picking - and I'm not talking about blackberry picking at any old local farm. Nope. Not here. Instead we pick wild blackberries...found growing wild everywhere! At the end of our street, on the local trails...Alastair often tells stories about how he grabs a few on his bike ride home from work! Now when we go for walks we bring a bucket with us so we can pick blackberries at the same time!

The World's Most Expensive Playground

Last weekend we drove out to Richmond to check out the Terra Nova Adventure Playground aka the million dollar playground. Yes you read that right - it cost the city of Richmond a million dollars to build this playground. And I have to admit - it's a really good playground. 

Happy camper

Last weekend we took our first camping trip as a family! From swimming in the lake to hiking to playing from morning till night...camping was a complete success!

 You never know what you might find on a nature walk...

Bite Me

You know how you don't know if your kid is allergic to something until they have an allergic reaction? Well it happened with Matilda....last month she woke up with a slight bump on her head. She's a toddler, she falls, didn't think much of it....until about 8 hours after when her bump began to swell. The bump was red like a bite but there was no bite mark but to be safe I took her to the clinic. The doctor said she seemed fine that the swelling would go down but if the swelling got worse to bring her back in. Below is a picture of Matilda at the clinic on the first day...

The next day we woke up and Matilda's eye had swelled even more! So off to the hospital we went....

 By the end of the third day the swelling was gone, all was good...we thought ok it's a one time thing....and then we went camping. On the last day of camping she woke with an obvious mosquito bite on her forehead. And as the day went on the more and more it swelled up! We had confirmation that Matilda and bites are like oil and water - they just don't mix!