Tuesday 26 August 2014

118

This week Rose has mostly been trying out for the 118 ads.

Monday 25 August 2014

Sewing and Sky

No pictures of children today I'm afraid just me and the sky instead.  We had a quiet weekend, it's been a long summer (although it's gone surprisingly quickly) and I for one am running out of steam so we just did some walking and sewing.  I made this apron from an Indigo Junction pattern.
To be honest the weekend was so uninspiring that I wouldn't have bothered to blog at all if I hadn't taken this shot of the sky from the deck this morning.  I guess its the an aeroplane trail through some cirrocumulus or something but it looks like a giant sky worm to me.

Tuesday 19 August 2014

And Finally...

Here's the last of the posts for this evening and don't worry, it's short.  Last weekend Gary visited and for lack of any other ideas we took him for a walk down on the waterfront,  here are the Parker boys on Burlington Pier which is cool and curly.  I'm not sure if they conferred on wardrobe choices before going out or the shades of blue and grey are a coincidence.
 We accidentally went to the Burlington Children's Festival while we were there and Rose had her first cheer leading lesson, if all cheer leaders get to wear giant, sparkly hair bows I'm sure it won't be her last.

Rapunzel and a Surprise

Last week Rose went to another elaborate Disney Princess Party.  This time she went in her Rapunzel dress so we had to recreate the hair for the occasion, if anyone ever has to do this kind of thing there's a great website called Cute Girl Hairstyles with tutorials on most of the Disney princess 'dos and if I can do them anyone can.
We also received a surprise parcel in the post from across the big sea.  Jacob is very pleased, especially with the activity science book but it's hard to photograph.  Here's Rose with her new T-shirt and bug glasses.
And she does like to share.
Does anyone watch Trailer Park Boys?

Shell Bay

This is something I thought I wouldn't do at the beginning but I'm going for a marathon 2/3 posts in one night because I've only just bothered to download a bunch of photos from the past couple of weeks.  Enthusiastic 2012 Kirstin wouldn't have done it but that was then!

So first off some photos of a really pretty little cove just in the edge of Oakville that we found the weekend before last.

Isn't it cute, it's right in the middle of an expensive suburb but obviously not visited too much as you can see by the empty beach.  The kids were up for some paddling but as I know what they're like and it would all too soon have deteriorated into "Oops, I fell all the way in so I may as well swim" I banned it.  I'm so mean.

As the post title suggests it's called Shell Bay which I rather romantically thought might be because of the shape of the cove and the fact that much of what looks like sand is half broken down shells.  However, I think Tom may be correct in surmising that it has more to do with the view out in the other direction.
This was not in use while we were there but we drove past on Sunday morning and an enormous tanker was docked and probably loading/unloading for the refinery not far inland from here.

Friday 8 August 2014

Circus School

Every morning this week Rose has been to circus camp.  She has been juggling, hoola hooping, somersaulting over bars, trampolining, balancing on things, swinging on rings and aerial hoops, posing in the silks and a whole lot more.  Her favourite part has been the trapeze.  I tried to take some photos through the glass when I picked her up today, they don't show the expression of adrenalin-rush joy but you get the general idea.



What a cool place for an active five year old to spend the morning, even Jacob thought it looked like it might be fun.

All About Jacob

This makes a change doesn't it, Jacob usually manages to effectively avoid cameras but this week he had a long overdue haircut.
And he reached a Miller milestone.  Here he is after finishing ALL of a bacon and egg cooked breakfast (including home fries and toast) for the first time, he looks a bit bilious but I can happily report that he was not sick.
Granddad would have been proud but I'm not sure how he would have felt about bacon and egg with chocolate milk, is chocolate good with anything or is that taking breakfast beverage innovation just one step too far?

Friday 1 August 2014

Coffee and Sundresses

Another week is nearly over, seemingly filled with nothing but very busy.  The kid's have both had play dates, the car had to go into the garage again, we spent another morning in Bronte Park and all the usual house stuff had to be done.  I have also been sewing and that's all I took photos of I'm afraid.

Last week when Rose and I were hanging out in rather pricey Oakville we came across some 'coffee cozies' designed to save you from using one of those cardboard sleeves every time you buy take out, they were $15.00 each! so I made my own for about 40c.  Here's Jacob modelling it.

Rose has a blue sundress we bought last year that she is very fond of and has worn until it is completely limp and way too small.  I had a go at copying it with some rather smashing fabric that she picked out a couple of months ago in a sale.

I'm pleased as it looks pretty much the same as the original although any details are lost on these pictures as the pattern is so busy.  It's turned out fairly big so I really hope she's still into the 'Little House on the Prairie' look next year.