Hanging out with some cuz's

Yesterday, three of my cousins came to spend the day with me and play tractors and dig in the dirt. Mummy & I went in the morning to pick up Meagen, Tessa & Craig and brought them back to our house. It was kinda chilly but I was determined to get outside and enjoy the sunshine.
It was a fun day and i really didn't want to nap so when mummy went back outside to cut more blackberries, I decided to get up and play with Megan and Tessa. Finally mummy was called back inside and told all of us that we needed to stop watching TV and come out and enjoy the sunshine. So off we went to play in the sand and watch mummy and Craig try to start a fire.
When it was time to come into make dinner, my cheeks were a nice rosy red and i was starting to get tired but I wasn't going to let that stop me from running my cousins ragged.
Then my aunt Leasa & uncle Pete showed up for dinner and I got to sit beside uncle Pete and sample his dinner for him and let him know if it was alright to eat. Afterwards, my cousin Meagen gave me my bath and i got to play a little bit more before mummy decided that I was way too tired to be up and be socialable.
It was a great day and Thanks to my cousins for coming to play with me. When are you coming back?????????

Exploring Parksville

Saturday morning after a great sleep in the funny bed, we headed out to breakfast. I got to sample food from mummy and daddy's plates (I ate all of mummy's blueberries and mixed with the ketchup made a pretty picture on my face).

My parents told me that my day would be jam packed with sights and the first one was a trip to a Cheese farm (though if you ask me it was a John Deere place). We went to Qualicum Cheeseworks where we got to visit all the farm animals and where mummy bought me two new John Deere tractors.

I liked seeing all the animals but my most memorable experience that I will remember from this excursion will be when the piggies took my boot off my foot and tried to eat it and daddy had to go into the pen and get it back and wash it off. This made me sad at first and also very leary that another animal might try to take my boot so that everyone I saw after I told them " don't take my boot off"!

After we had finished exploring the farm, we headed off to Butterfly World. They had butterflys flying all around which I must say didn't excite me as much as seeing the fish in the ponds or the turtles. They also had some pretty flowers but I wasn't allowed to pick them.

Finally after all our wanderings it was time to head back to the ferry boat, but first we stopped at Coombs Market to see the goats on the roof but they must have been sleeping cause they weren't standing on the roofs. So instead we ran around the place and as I was starting to get tired I experienced a few melt downs. On our way again we decided that since we had some time to blow we would stop and have a picnic at the coolest park I have ever been to. There were so many things to climb on. They even had a mini zip line, tons of teeter-totters, a helicopter, swings that spun around like a merry-go round, and a really neat water park that i wished it was summer so that i could run through it. I'm gonna have to convince my parents that we should come back in the summer to play.

Then it was finally time to board the ferry and head for home. We went on a brand new ferry on the way home and they had a really cool pirate ship to play on. This was a really fun trip and we hope to take some more fun trips this summer.

As a foot note- Jacob finally fell asleep after we got off the ferry around 4:45 and then we paid for it later that night when he wouldn't go to bed till after 10pm. Ah, I can't wait for the times that naps don't play into plans!

Big boat trip

On Friday, mummy, daddy and I went on my first boat trip to a place called Parksville (and ya know what they have a really awesome park right by the water!). We had to get up early and drive a long way past all the tractors and then we finally saw the water that daddy called the "Paficik Ofsean". Then daddy drove the car right onto the big boat and when we got out to explore somebody talked and then blew this really, really loud horn and scared the tears out of me. Finally we made our way up some stairs and then went outside on the boat to explore. We saw the birds fly by, sailboats, bouys, lighthouses and tug boats with barges. I was really hoping to see some fishies or whales but sadly none swam by.
When we went inside I got to explore some more and found this really fun room to play in and mummy even bought me some new whale and dude puzzles to throw around. When we had enough of the playing, daddy let me fall on my head from a bench near the boats window. Did you know that you can bounce off of glass windows and do a cartwheel and then land on your head all without breaking anything? Well now you do!

After all this excitement you would think I would be done in, but nope we headed off to our hotel where we were going to sleep for the night. I got to sleep in this neat little couch that folded out to a bed and when daddy sat on it it flipped the bed up off it's legs. Then we went outside to the Ofsean and looked for "craps".

We only saw one "craps" leg but we saw lots of neat shells.

Then to top off my fun day we headed to the rink so mummy could work and daddy and I got to scope out all the cute girls in their little tu-tu's (daddy says that if I'm smart I will let mummy get me into skating so that I can meet some more of these cute girls when I'm older). I really enjoyed watching the skaters but mostly liked all the different music that was played. Though I was kinda sad that the "boni" didn't come out while I was there.

After we watched skating we went out for dinner where I entertained some older couples with my very good behaviour. It was a very exciting first day of our trip and I finished it off with a bath in the hotel tub and then falling asleep in my funny bed with mummy and daddy in the big bed beside me