Cake for Breakfast!

Uncle Brian must be a pretty special guy. We had cake for breakfast today! Mommy doesn't like me to eat too much cake and I've NEVER had it for breakfast before! I hope Uncle Brian has another birthday soon!

Happy Birthday Super Trooper!

Shhhh! Daddy's friend and partner, Uncle Bhasker, is going to get suprised tonight! Mommy and Daddy are going to a big surprise party for his 50th birthday. Daddy has to do a speech and he's been practicing a lot. Mommy and I have been helping him. Daddy, in case you forget your speech, here's the song part of it.

Corn Maze

Daddy and I are having lots of fun together. Mommy is taking some time off this weekend so it's up to Daddy to look after me.


Today, Daddy took me to the corn maze. There was corn everywhere! We had lots of fun getting lost and trying to find our way out. I ran up and down the maze trying to find the right path but it kept going on and on and on. Good thing Daddy is smart and knows a lot of trivia. He was able to answer questions at some of the intersections and that gave us hints on which way to go. We met a family who couldn't answer all the questions and they'd been in the maze for hours! Still, it took us a long, long time to finish the maze. After all that running I had to climb into the wagon for a rest and Daddy pulled me the rest of the way.


After we made it out, there was still some fun stuff to do. My cousin, Jacob, and I found some trucks to play with. There was also a bridge to climb up on to see the corn maze from above. Here I am with Aunty Wendy.


When it was time to leave, Uncle Kelly, Aunty Wendy, Jacob, Daddy and I stopped for a new kind of snack. I've never gone to Tim Horton's before and Daddy let me have chocolate milk and a double-chocolate donut. Mmmmm! chocolate! I think this is my new favourite snack. I wonder if Mommy will let me have it another day.

Capilano Suspension Bridge

What a great morning I had! Mommy, Aunty Melodie, Marissa, Aiden and I went to the Caplilano Suspension Bridge. Mommy thought I might get scared going over the big, wobbly bridge but I thought it was fun! When we got to the other side we found so many things to do...


First we did the Treetops Adventure. It was a lot of small suspension bridges that went from big tree to big tree. We were up really, really high. At first Marissa was a little scared so I held her hand to help her across. After a few bridges she was okay and didn't need to hold my hand anymore.


Next we took a walk around the lake and Marissa and I saw fish jumping out of the water. I think they were very hungry for their breakfast.



Mommy and Aunty Melodie kept trying to take pictures of Marissa, Aiden and me but they couldn't get a good one. On our walk around the lake we found a bench so they asked us to sit on the bench for a photo. I think we were pretty wiggly because I don't see any good pictures of us.


Nobody ever takes a picture of Mommy and Aunty Melodie so I took one of them. Oops. I think I forgot to wait for Aunt Melodie to get in the picture.


After our walk around the lake, we went back across the huge suspension bridge. I found lots of speakers on the sides all the way across.


Back on the other side, we all had a nice snack, listened to some music, did a bit of dancing with a guy who was playing the guitar then it was time to go home. I was really tired when we got in the car. I had to walk and run all morning because we couldn't bring the stroller with us. It was worth it though.

Bikes & Buses

Brrrm, brrrm. Oh, hi! Just remembering the big, police motorcycle I sat on this afternoon. It was very big and shiney!

Mommy and I went to the Cops, Kids and Commercial Drive fair today. I learned a lot and had lots of fun too! My favourite parts were checking out the police car (bad boys in the back, good boys in the front), riding the tricycles and sitting on the motorbike. Did you know that the policeman has to wear boots because his bike gets really, really hot? He showed me where one of his cabels got melted onto the bike.




The Bike Rodeo was really fun. First I had to put on a helmet, then I got to choose a bike. I chose a green tricycle. To start the race, I had to wait for the light to change from red to green. Next I had to walk my tricycle across the crosswalk properly, then I had to stop at a stop sign and signal which direction I was going next. It took three tries but I got it! After that, Mommy let me go three more times then it was time to go home.

Before we got into the car, I also talked to a lady about 9-1-1. We practiced dialing the numbers on her cell phone and then we talked about when I should call it and when I shouldn't. She didn't think that losing my Bertie bus was an emergency but I did. I got a balloon from the Bike Safety tent and a loot bag from the Welcome tent too.

After a snack on Commerical Drive, Mommy had another interesting thing for us to do. We went to the Avalon Country Fair. I didn't know there was an old dairy in the middle of our city and neither did Mommy. I saw some cows, horses and chickens. I learned that milk comes out of the cows udders and I saw some old trucks that used to deliver milk. I played the milk game and squeezed some udders under a pretend cow. Milk came out into a bucket but when I wanted to drink it Mommy told me it was just for pretend.

I saved the best part to tell you about for the end...I saw a very old, yellow, city bus! Mommy said this is what the buses in Vancouver used to look like. It was a great day!

A Request

This one's for you Uncle Eddie...

Playland

Daddy is away on a golf trip this weekend so for something fun to do, Mommy took me to Playland. There were lots and lots of different rides but I'm still kinda short so there were only a few that I could go on. The ones I liked best were the Kettle Creek Rollercoaster (I wasn't scared because Mommy had her arm around me), the Cars and KC's Raceway.


I also enjoyed the Flying Elephants, the Helicopters, doing wheelies on the Stunt Cycles and riding in the Paddle Wheelers. Oh! I almost forgot about the Glass House. I banged into the windows a few times but eventually, I helped Mommy get out.




Mommy says going to Playland once a year is enough. I hope next year I'm tall enough to go on some of the big kid rides.

First Day of Preschool

Today was a big day - my first day of preschool. It was a very short class today and the teachers asked Mommy to come with me so that they could show both of us the routine and so that I wouldn't get scared. Since it was a nice day, Mommy said we could walk. It's a little too far for me to walk all the way so I rode my tricycle.


I have four teachers, Cathy, Erin, Wendy and Justin. They are all very nice. They showed me where my cubby is, where we have circle time and they gave Mommy some papers and showed her where to sign me in and out. I had a little time to check out the toys in the classroom. There are only two buses but that's OK, there are lots of cars and trains to play with. During circle time we sang some funny songs, heard each other's names, learned what to bring in our backpacks and listened to a story about a bear and a flashlight. I had fun today and am looking forward to Tuesday when I get to go back.


After school, Mommy took me out for a treat and I asked if I could have not-hot chocolate at Starbuck's. It was delicious.


So I don't forget the words to the new song Cathy taught us, here they are...

Two little robots standing on the moon,
One named Beep-Beep the other named Zoom.
Run away Beep-Beep, run away Zoom.
Come back Beep-Beep, come back Zoom.

The Zoom part is said really fast each time. It makes me laugh so much!

A New Bus

Daddy went to "Guys Night" with his friends yesterday. Mommy says this is like a playdate with his buddies. Since we would be at home by ourselves, Mommy said I could have a playdate too. I haven't had a playdate with my good friend Marissa for a long time so Mommy and I invited them to join us for dinner.

We had lots of fun playing in the playroom. Marissa's little brother Aiden is growing up and we had lots of fun playing "run-run" together. He can only run frontwards but I can run sideways and Marissa showed us how she can run backwards.

After dinner, Mommy had a fun treat for us. She baked some mini-chocolate cupcakes and made chocolate frosting. Marissa, Aiden and I got to decorate them. The hardest part is not eating all the decorations. Here we are with our beautiful cupcakes.

































It was a really fun playdate. The best part of all is Aunty Melodie's surprise for me...a new bus! This one is like pee-pee bus except it has headlights that I can turn on and off. I've named him "Flasher." Aunty Melodie always finds great surprises!