Introducing Sophie

Sophie Catherine Pearl was born on Friday, May 20th weighing 6 lbs, 13 oz. and measuring 20 inches long. Her middle names honour her maternal great-grandmother and paternal grandmother whose birthdays were on May 19th. She already has more hair than her older brother, but they resemble each other closely in most other ways. Daniel is beginning to warm up to the idea of having her around now that it seems clear she doesn't want to play with any of his toys. I'm sure before long he will be as in love with her as the rest of us are.

Mothers' Day weekend

My boys spoiled me this weekend. They took me out for breakfast, built a couple new garden boxes, and gave me a new Kindle to read on too.

Daniel was very excited to go out and help Dad with his drill until he discovered that his toy drill didn't actually do anything useful. He then tried to trade drills with Keith and when that didn't work, just tossed his in the grass and went to help Keith with his real drill. Once there was no more drilling to do, Daniel happily dug around in his sandbox while Keith kept working.

Music class

During the fall and winter, we took Daniel to a Kindermusik class at the university once a week. He has really gotten into singing and playing instruments and asks for his "Daniel songs" every time we get in the car. This past Saturday was the last class of the semester so I thought I better get some pictures of what he's been doing each week.

Little percussion boy

Daniel loves getting to play in Keith's band room and is fairly confident using a wide variety of percussion instruments. He also wishes he was big enough to play the tuba and can't believe Keith doesn't have a cello or violin anywhere since he is convinced he could play them.




These videos were taken about a month ago when we stopped by for one of Keith's breaks during parent-teacher interviews.

Daddy is a young man

Daniel was SO excited to help get ready for Keith's big birthday, and even more excited that some of our favourite people were coming over for supper. Keith was less excited about turning 40 and complained all week that "Daddy was going to be an old man." When Daniel solemnly repeated this back to him, I nearly died laughing. Ever since Keith has been trying to get Daniel to say "Daddy is a young man" but Daniel always giggles when he says it. :)

Will the snow ever stay gone?

It has been such a long winter. Just when it seems like spring might come, we get another dump of snow. The up side is that this is the nicest time to build snowmen because it is sunny and relatively warm once it finishes snowing. Hopefully this will be the last one we make for a long time now.

Easter weekend

It's been a long time, I know. I have been working like crazy to get in enough days to qualify for a mat leave and blogging has been the bottom of the list. Now with only just over 3 weeks to go before the next little on arrives, I feel like I better do some updating before the next round of crazy busy begins. We had a very enjoyable, relaxing Easter weekend. The weather was finally agreeable and Daniel was thrilled to have Mom & Dad home to play with.



Decorating Easter eggs with Mom.



Daniel was very excited to discover Easter eggs on Sunday morning. Especially when he opened them to find jelly beans and Cars stickers.



Bike riding with Daddy down the green strip.