Visit from Dean, Carm and Baby Amellia

I am a terrible blogger... sorry for not keeping up to date! I have more photos of Canada Day to come later.

In June we had a visit from my Uncle Dean, Aunt Carm and darling daughter Cousin Baby Amelia in June. We had beautiful weather, and Josh had the great idea to have a Scavenger Hunt!

Team Scientists - Josh and Dean - Dad was the Ref!



Team GirlPower! Carm, Hannah and Mom (who took photos too)



Scavenger Winners! A Tie!



The BUG! This wasn't on our list, but it found us. If you know what kind of bug it is, let us know!


Hannah absolutely adored Baby Amellia! She was so sad when Amellia had to go, she cried.

Amellia found Hannah very interesting too!

Other Fun Times:

Reading a story with Grandma when she came for a visit

School Trip to Saunder's Farm

Proud Parents - Josh's French School's Play - Les trois petits cochons. Josh was Cochon #1 who played GUITAR! He was quite animated and memorized his lines like a pro :-)

Taking the School bus and visit from Grandma

So strange, I thought this was posted at the beginning of June... but I just found it in DRAFT and all my text is gone!

So... in May Hannah decided she wanted to take THE BUS to school. SOOOOOO... after a few weeks of asking we said OK. Luckily the spot beside Josh was vacant because that little guy stopped taking it, so they could sit together. He was a very responsible big brother. They brought some little toys to play with and when it arrived at school, he walked her over to her Kindergarten teacher. In the afternoon he made sure she got on OK too. I, of course, was very nervous and Robin had to stop me from getting in the car and following the bus all the way to school!! So, they took the bus together basically every day after that!


Soccer is now in full swing and Miss Hannah can't get enough of it! We still wear our Soccer Uniform several days a week. She complains and whines when she thinks she's sat out her shift for toooooooo long!!! Of course, FREEZIES are THE BEST PART of the night! I will still never forget her face and excitement after the first game when we handed out the freezies.... "OH MOMMY... my LOVE these!!" and later when they started melting on the way home in the car, "JOSH! I HAVE WATER!! Do you have WATER??? YUMMMM!!! My love these!!" How adorable is that??
Josh and Hannah love playing Lego. Not ALWAYS peacefully played together of course, lots of bickering over pieces etc, but they did a great job building this Lego city... and yes, they are both wearing their soccer kits... yes, we are footie crazy in this house. Go England!!

In May Josh also had his First Holy Communion. Unfortunately we are standing right in front of his banner that he made (you can kinda see the word GOD behind us). The kids were supposed to do the banners themselves... well... I guess a LOT of Gr 2s are a WIZ with the sewing machine! Josh was very serious and excited about finally getting to receive the Host!

oh - p.s. if you are wondering, YES, they are wearing winter coats... we had some VERY cold mornings in May this year!