Babies are fun

Despite the teething and the colds, babies are still fun.  Abi agrees.

(and now for some kiddo pics to tide folks over)

Lucy posing with knitting and showing off some of her usual crazy hair.

Claire posing with start of a crochet hat.

Crazy Claire face. Blue eyed cutee.

Lucy noming on Taggies blanket.

Abi rides a dear while geocaching on a bike ride with Robin.

Abi and Lucy pose during a round of Bumbo-car driving. (see video below)

Claire hangs out on the Island while Lucy is off cruising with Abi.

And now for some recent videos. Nothing too terribly exciting, but better than no videos - right?

Still to come - photos from the wedding. Or see what we've been tagged in on FB.

Geocaching

Do you know what Geocaching is? If you're a friend of Robin's I assume you know about it by now. It's his favourite past-time. (Don't tell his XBox friends that...) No matter where we go, there is always a geocache nearby. Always.
(Note, geocaches are also located near yarn stores.  But I think we may have exhausted the local ones. Could some one please hide some more around Wolseley Wools and Ram Wools CoOp. K, thx.)
(PS If you actually want to know what geocaching is, I've linked to the main site. Don't ask me to explain the treasure hunt. Talk to Robin.)

This is a familiar sight for me.
Almost as familiar as these:

 (Just a little kiddo goodness for your day. I know I'm overdue for sharing pictures.)

 This guy is rather familiar too and looking might comfy. (Had to share.)

But as I was saying, we do a lot of geocaching. And by "we" I mean Robin. Often Abi is with him. Sometimes the babies and I tag along.  Sometimes we "tag along" by waiting in the car. I knit. There are a lot of roadside geocaches.

Last weekend we attended our first geocachers event hosted by long time family friends, who also happen to be avid geocachers (or, at least the male half of the couple is avid; I suspect the other half tags along as I do).
There were a lot of geocachers - young and old, families and couples and so forth. Plenty of kids for Abi to run around with.  There was also a live band, who played a couple of kickass sets in the evening.
And there was the Jenga fire.
Robin took a picture with Abi as a reference.

Then the tower grew...

And then it was a tower of fire.  Everyone waited in anticipation for the tower to crumble. It was quite exciting. There are a couple dozen videos of it I'm sure, since everyone had cameras out. We have videos.

Abi and Pa-pere

A great event all around.   Abi even met a girl her own own age (whose parents are 'cachers) who actually happens to live a few blocks away.

Lastly, we're ready for the big wedding tomorrow. Abi demonstrated her readiness at the rehearsal last night. Sunday I hope to get up the real pictures. Stay tuned.

Happy Giggles

There's not much that's better than laughing, smiling, playful babies in the day and sleeping babies at night.  Makes it easy to 'forget' all the crying in between (and the endless diaper changes).
I've been terribly lax about sharing photos, but that's primarily because I've not really taken many decent ones lately.  Babies are at that stage where they stop the cute thing they were doing and just stare at the strange metallic device.  It's no good for photos. Or videos.  I did manage to get this cute video the other day. (Already shared on FB).

As for what we've been up to this summer... aside from 2 weeks of Folklorama... there has been a lot of geocaching. A bit of knitting on my part (especially during long drives - thank goodness for long drives!).  Plenty of fun with family (Abi went to Thunder Rapids twice in one week with her papere).  Weekly library trips.  Geocaching - wait, I think I mentioned that already.  You know, stuff, "the days are just packed" kind of things.
And while everyone else is heading back to school (many of Abi's friends, my dad to teach, etc), summer continues for us.  I've been trying to find fun daytime programs for Abi. Alas, the Winnipeg leisure guide and community centres nearby don't seem to have much in the day for kids - not like in KW.  I was hoping for a daytime dance class like she had before at Victoria Hills CC.  I don't understand why all the preschool-age dance classes are offered at or after dinner.
So far we're going to put her in a Saturday dance group at the Scandinavian Center because Abi thought it looked like fun during Folklorama and the hostess at the pavilion sold us all on the program.  (Can't beat the price, non-competitive, fun, could be in Folklorama next year, etc.).  We're also going to do story time at the library during weekdays.  We're hesitant to commit her to other (expensive) programs when we're not sure where we'll be living half-way through the term.  (Note for my Ontario friends, there is no JK here. Not that it would matter at the moment because contrary to her previous insistence that she has to go to a real school, she now insists that she's going to stay home and mommy's going to be her teacher.  So we're back to the homeschooling plan.)