Day 1 of post camp life at the Mansfield outdoor centre. Charlotte he safely from the first day of school. Pasta and sauce consumed for supper. Frogs for desert.

In Her right elbow. It is seriously displaced. The orthopaedic surgeon took a picture for his files. He was impressed. According to the x-rays – the break is smack in the middle of the joint and the growth plate. By this time tomorrow, she will have a titanium screw in her arm. The experience with…… Continue reading Charlotte’s big break

Are you thinking we reached the milestone for greatest number of consecutive days eating apples with neutella for desert after supper? Or perhaps greatest number of times you can reapply neutella to the same apple slice for an almost two year old who has figured out that if she just licks the neutella off the…… Continue reading Milestone

This is Ruby playing her favourite board game. It’s called kids on stage and its pretty much charades for children. And she loves it. She loves acting things out. She loves making people laugh. She loves dancing around. She’s quite good at the game. Her little scenes are usually well thought out and, when its…… Continue reading Learning to play along.

Permadirt: the stuff you get on your feet after a week away at camp. A clear indicator of time well spent. Charlotte came home yesterday exhausted and full of beans. And I think the bruises, the scrapes, and the grubby toes pretty much tell the whole story.

Ruby turns 4 in a couple of weeks. And because we have a few things going on in our lives, we (and by we I mean my wife had the foresight and intelligence to plan ahead) hosted an early 4th birthday party for Ruby. It was all laid out to be a pretty simple affair.…… Continue reading Ruby 4 – almost

Diarrhea Sunrise. It has a nice ring to it. Like maybe it could be the name of a new one hit wonder top forty boy band album. Or a drink that some frat boy serves on the beach in Daytona at Spring Break. Or maybe its a wrestling move. Sort of like a DDT.But no.…… Continue reading Diarrhea sunrise

Six days ago, this was the scene at Glen Bernard Camp where Hil and I dropped Charlotte off for her first overnight camp experience. We’d been talking about the experience for over a year. We’d been the fall family weekends so she could get to know the place. The packing had been going on for…… Continue reading Six days ago

Had fun in the power outage last night playing go fish. Ruby knows more letters and numbers than I realized. Arden ate a second supper of Cheerios. Charlotte kept us all posted as to the rules of the game.

It has been raining for just about a week now in Toronto. There have been some sunny breaks – but we’ve had rain pretty much every day. And now that I think about it, I think that the past few Julys have started this way.Regardless, Arden is pretty taken with her rain boots. They go…… Continue reading Boots on or off?