First Day of School

So today I started my first day of school, well kind of...just 4 hours, twice a week.  I am in Miss Jaimie's class and there are lots of cars available.  The first day of class I painted a butterfly for mama, which is now hanging proudly on the fridge door.  I am not scared to go to school either, I pretty much run for my class as soon as we get inside the gate and hardly notice that mama has left.

Aboard the USS Midway and Family Camping Trip

Once we got back from our vacation up in Canada, we had some new adventures back in Southern California.  Opa joined us for a visit and one of the days we went down to San Diego and went on the USS Midway that is parked in the harbor.  That was cool!

The next weekend we went camping up in Ojai in the Los Padres National Forest.  We bought a big hugemongous (aka humongous) tent in the whole wide world, I brought my bike, and we ate hot dogs every night for dinner.

How Do You Get To Montreal?

You are right, this seems like the most obvious way to get to Montreal or at least if you are coming from Southern California.  But Eamonn decided to provide me (Papa) with a different story tonight before bed.  First we were reading a book about Cars, Trucks, and Things That Go; on one of the pages there is a VW Bug with a sailboat on its roof.  That is what set Eamonn off!  The following is a transcript of his words telling me how to get to Montreal:

Papa, that sail boat is like Viktor's boat. Do you mean Opa's boat at the cottage?  No, Viktor's boat in Montreal.  Papa, where is Montreal?  Its North of here and a very long plane ride.  No, no, no, you have to take a boat to get to Montreal.  Opa starts the motor and I am the pilot and I start the engine.  Viktor has the key and he turns it on.  Henrik sits in the seat next to me and everybody sits in seats in the back.  We can borrow Opa's race boat to go to Montreal.

Papa, where is Montreal? Its North of here and we took a plane to get there.  No, no, no, you have to go to Mookie's cottage and get a boat and drive it there to Viktor and Henrik's house in Montreal.  That's what we did this time to get there.  Papa, where is Montreal?  I do not know anymore Eamonn, good night!

Vacation #2 for Eamonn and Lael that is (Toronto/Montreal)

After spending a week or so at the cottage, Lael and I did a tour of Eastern Canada with Mama.  We started out in Toronto and then moved East to Montreal.  I had loads of fun at Rachel and Matthews house, Matthew had a lot of cool toys.

Going for ice cream, but it was closed.

Miss sqirmy worm.

Who is driving this thing anyway.

At last, we found some ice cream.

Big play-date at the park in Ile Perot.

Kicking it at Quinn's Farm.

Leave the toys for the boys, we want the box.

Climbing tires at Quinn's Farm. We love it.

Lake of Bays 2013

We did our almost annual trip to the Mookie and Opa's cottage on Lake of Bays, Ontario.  Viktor and Henrik were also there and a good time was had in between the fighting, T-Rex attacks, meal time wrangling....and the rain.  Man did it rain a lot.  See a few photos below.

Got the pajamas on for the flight, getting comfy.

Celebrating Henrik's B-day.

The Moose at Robinson's Store in Dorset, ON.

On the way back from Dorset, Lael all bundled up in her life jacket.

Eamonn's first time fishing, he caught a fish on the first cast.

A rare enjoyable moment for Lael in the boat, 

she did not like the tight life jacket.

Faster Opa.