some newish stuff

Leaves and water

Sid is loving the leaves. Every time we walk past a pile she has to get in them. Good for doing at the park, not so good when we're at Sean's work and they've just swept the patio.

Last night, Sid had her first swim class since she was about a year and a half. What can I say, I'm lazy.
She was nervous! We went to a different pool than last time, one we can walk too, which is good, since I am lazy! The class she is in is for beginners. Age wise it's from birth to five. Yep, she was the oldest, well maybe tied for the oldest but the other four year old is a boy and in Sid's world he might as well not exist. The best part for her was she could stand in the shallow end. That really relaxed her. My favourite part was when the teacher asked her if she could put her face in the water. She looked at her with a very serious face and said "I don't think so". Her tone made it sound more like "I won't and you can't make me, you dumb ass." Needless to say the teacher and I both cracked up. All in all a great night.

Cough medicine, sunsets and celebrities.

Kids Nyquil is not a nice medicine. Since taking it Sid has decided she needs to cut her sleep time by about 3 hours. What the?? Of course she's not getting up earlier, oh no, Mom's up early for work so why would she bother? No, she likes to "lie" in bed and chat to herself, dolls and who ever else she's imagining in bed with her. So what's the big deal you may ask? Well that's OK if you live in a two story, four bedroom house, but we don't. We have a rather cosy two bedroom apartment . Which means I'm sitting here like a monk till she falls asleep. Last night, instead of cracking open a bottle of wine and watching Citizen Kane like we planned, Sean fell asleep on the couch and I played on line games without sound. Did I mention he works most nights? Well there's always next month.

So here's a little eye candy. One of the few benefits of our place. Lovely sunsets, ten stories above ground:


This past weekend we attended "Word on the Street". It's a book fair here in town and pre-kids we used to go every year. Last time I was there it was a rather adult affair in a trendy hood. I felt so un-read. This time (four + years later) it's a park with a kids area and stage. Cool.
TVO (TV Ontario) was hosting the stage and Sid was so excited to meet some of her fave TV characters. She even got Gisele's autograph. Not sure who was more excited her or us. After all, we owe that women a lot. As the host of TVO morning show she's enabled me to make breakfast uninterrupted for years now!! We also got to meet Polkaroo (he was on TV when I was a kid) and Clifford the Big Red Dog.







As well, there's a new Princess in the house and his name is Thomas Xavier. Poor kid! I see therapy in his future. If his parents don't fire me first!

Some new layouts with old pictures

I haven't scrapped many of Sid's baby pictures. Sadly I saved many of them at a low resolution without saving the original (just like all my jewellery shots). But they look nice on digi layouts!
Our little silly tradition!