3 Ginger Snaps

//www.youtube.com/get_playerTook this video one week ago today. Can't believe how much she has changed since I started writing this blog.

Fed a four day old calf. Met some chickens. Ate donuts right out of the fryer with compulsory cinnamon sugar. Charlotte rode the Ferris wheel solo. Watched the 4H lamb show. Ruby and Arden took in the kiddie rides. And Charlotte braved the giant swing. I’m glad that ruby and Arden didn’t meet the height…… Continue reading Fall fair

So the big tractors that work for the potato chip company go through the field and they dig up the potatoes and all the potatoes that are the right size for chips go in the bucket and all the potatoes that are the wrong size for chips get spit out and end up back on…… Continue reading Leftovers

1. Check out the view at the bus stop. This is Charlotte on her first day of school waiting on Sideroad 17 for the big orange chariot. 2. Here it comes – our the driver’s name is Tanya.3. This is charlotte’s cast the evening before she is scheduled to go to Sick Kids and have…… Continue reading Photo update

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.