Digging into the last days of summer

Two happy, healthy, bilingual kids who love to dig in the dirt.

Bright-eyed butterfly

Day 4 of camp was "Carnival" and Sophie was transformed into a butterfly. And then at dinner - when the lovely Johar joined us for some Ethiopian - she lost another tooth.

hanging out with Grandma in Montreal

Admiring his baby pics

having a swivel in Grandma's famous egg chair

On the metro heading for the train station - somehow our 'stuff' seems always to multiply after a stop in NB and Montreal! It must have been the bagels (and books, and games and clothes)

Settling into our new (temporary) home

Grandparent Camp 2014 allowed us to organize the Toronto basement to become Mr's new batchelor pad and our family's home under our home

First dinner in our basement pad 

It needed a lot of organizing and constant de-cluttering...

All good things must come to an end...

First family dinner - we can just squeeze 4 at the card table

On the first morning, young miss headed straight to the library

and on the way home, we bumped into young Mr. back from his first trip to the local toy shop

Our fair lady

Ouch! Sophie's first full-on sunburn :-(

 2nd day of camp (which she adores) but we didn't pack her sun shirt and the sunblock clearly wasn't applied evenly...

Fun rainy Saturday

A great dad has taken the kids and their friend Bruno to see 

the US-North Korea women's under-20 match!

Soar, dear daughter

There is no love like a parent's love

Money matters

Seb has money issues - it burns a hole in his pocket. We are trying to work on that but the flip side is that he is often happy to give it away. Recently, he gave each of his cousins a loonie ($1), leaving himself with just pennies.

Career guidance anyone?

Seems like no visit to BC is long enough

With a little practice she got almost all the way across

Even monkeys need some balancing practice

Ready for some canoeing with super, clang-clang auntie Deb

Wonderful evening of picnicking and Midsummer's Night's Dreaming with Roxane and Graham

Jeet and I caught up with our friend Lee-Anne, who is now Nairobi-based

Demonstrating what a great little reading nook, Auntie Syd has in her new home

Demonstrating the great Auntie Syd in front of her new home

Blue skies over Spanish Banks

playing, digging & BBQing on the beach, followed by fireworks for our last evening in Vancouver

Eating hot dogs in the water - must have been a great vacation

When one has such stunning weather as we lucked into AND the world's most wonderful friends, one does wonder why one left...

Grandparent Camp 2014 - part 1

Whilst we sifted through boxes and organize a basement apartment, the kids headed to the hair salon in NB!

Loving Canada's lakes

He may be at Loch Lomond lake (NB) tonight but he was at Deer lake (BC) last Thursday.

Cousins! II

The eldest of the clan of cousins 

The gals sharing some stories

Post-game slurpies for all!

Strong cousin 1

Strong cousin 2

Man caves are so passé

Our gal adapted a storage closet to be her temporary alone space

Week 2 in BC

Some free lunchtime music - Hey Ocean c/o CBC Vancouver

The indescribably wonderful and sunny Jeet

Hiking Grouse Mountain with Uncle Trefor

Catching up with the Vancouver transplants/returnees - the Fikri-Chapmans

Oogling all the action on Vancouver's beaches

The camping life

The man who makes it all happen

Modelling their new sleeping bags

Munchies on the beach

Setting off for a swim across the Juan de Fuca strait

Long-locked lad on a log

and on a beach

Wading in the Pacific