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A new record for one wash.

My love the hockey fan

I love watching my love watch hockey. Put a Habs match on and a whole other side comes out.

Ask Seb: He is like a coach. He talks to the players a lot. He encourages them. He lets me stay up late. Partly because he likes a watching buddy, partly because I like it so much. I appreciate it.


But I still can't get him to be silly enough and do the wave.

Political priorities of a 4 year old

The radio was on over breakfast this morning and I was excitedly querying whether the NDP would make big gains in next week's national election.

Sophie: What are you talking about, Mama?

Me: Choosing a government. The people who will make decisions for all Canadians. Decisions like how much money to take from us and whether to spend it on schools, doctors, armies, roads, how much we can pollute, which countries to be friends with and which ones are "misbehaving" (Sophie's new word of caution) and so on.

Sophie: Oh.

Me: What do you think should be the most important thing in choosing a leader?

Sophie: Whether they litter and clean up after themselves.

Not bad advice.

Quick drink for the road

Couple of weeks back, neighbour John took the boys to a show opening at a gallery he supports. Seb of course saw an opportunity to get dressed up and - knowing that they wouldn't serve him at the bar - had a quick drink of (ginger) beer for the road.

A loyal follower

We lost a loyal wedgley follower this weekend. Someone who would pour over every detail on the blog, laugh at the children's antics, revel in their accomplishments and pine that they were so far away - but never complain and limit our potential.

Seb & Sophie's great-grandmother, Nannie Gen, died early in the morning. It was quick but we all miss her already. She always made me feel like her amazing grandson had found the most wonderful catch - talk about a warm welcome to the family.

We'll hold your memory, warmth and strength close to us, Nannie/Gen.

Love you.

Swirly-whirly girl

Full of vim, vigour, vibrancy. That's our lass.

Flying high

We bought a bi-plane kite 2 weeks back. Look for it flying high over Rochester, NY this long weekend.

An "oldie" but "goodie"

The photos are old (a month) but great just like the birthday girl.

Still amazed at how Carrie can ohh-and-ahhh like a pro. It seems like she couldn't have asked of better presents than a plastic chain necklace and a hodge-podge of red and orange mug (with some stick figures to decorate)!

Some BC shots that got away

I had forgotten that young fella was the official photographer of many March Break moments. Perhaps it was only the official camera, because the best shots include him.

At last I have downloaded his camera and can share them with you...

Panama Perspective

It was terrific to get away and visit Panama for work. Who would have thought! I didn't leave the hotel much but I did get a day to see the famous canal (impressive) and climb an observation tower in the rain forest - where we saw little but heard howler monkeys (and swung on a vine). But the best bit was visiting with an old colleague from south Sudan days; indeed, on Friday night we shared a lovely meal outdoors in the pleasant old quarter of Panama City.

How much is that doggy in the window?

Ah, that's more like it... Sophie and her friend Rowan (a.k.a. Ms Salt & Ms Pepper) opted for a puppy dog and a forest fairy respectively.

That streetcar ride home was much more jovial.

Drive by shooting

It was a Sprockets weekend. In addition to some terrific children's films from around the world, there was the green room again, button-making, balloon animals and dress up - all of extremely high quality.



And then there was the special effects make-up that drew the 7 year old boys.

You should have seen the looks we got on the streetcar home!

Can they stand the heat?

Turns out our kids - in fact, everyone in our household - love ginger beer. So as a treat, we did a taste test last night.















Seb tabulated the results...


















And the winner was... if I tell you, do you think that the company will send me a case for free? I mean, I am an influential mummy blogger after all.