Trip to Kilby

So yesterday was pretty fun, mummy and I met up with some of our friends and went to a little beach at Kilby to splash around. I was a little concerned that there might be some sharks as I had recently seen on a TV show about sharks swimming in rivers and attacking little boys legs. Mummy assured me that there were no sharks just some fish that I might be able to catch with my net. When we got to the beach there were signs with some birds and fish on them and again I mentioned that they looked like sharks! Again mummy told me that there were none in the river cause they would blow up if they swam in this kind of water. So afterwards I decided to try my luck at catching some litle fish.... no luck there as the little things swim really fast.

Oh well I had fun anyway splashing in the waves made by the motor boats,watching 5 trains travel over the bridge,

throwing water on people and stepping on all of mummys attempts at building a sand castle.

When it was time to leave we got to stop for ice cream and then got to sit in a bit of traffic due to an accident on the highway. Luckily we didn't have to wait long and my popsicle didn't melt.

New neighbour

Since living up here we have been lucky to see a mother bear and her cub, baby deer in our burn pile, families of deer eating the grass, lots of birds, squirrels,mice in the cars, frogs and now we have seen the raccoon after seeing tracks of it for the last little while. Mummy has been feeding the birds in the tree outside our kitchen window and every once in awhile the bird feeders are on the ground with the seed all gone. She was thinking that either the squirrel was really strong or that we had a raccoon and since we have seen the prints she was sure it wasn't a squirrel pack ganging up on the feeders. Twice now around 8pm we have seen the raccoon climb the tree and try to knock the feeder to the ground. He's a pretty smart little guy and he can even hang from all 4 paws and shake the tree. He is of course also a little camera shy and not quite willing to show us his secret for getting the feeder down cause after he realized he was being watched he scooted off only to return under the cover of darkness to get his treats.

Mummy is using this visiting as reinforcement to having her fence installed around her garden post haste!

Mothers Day - A new tradition???

Well yesterday finally arrived and I got to tell mummy how much I love her by giving her a card and some flowers and by letting her sleep through the night. We had a great day planned with most of my aunts and uncles, my grandma and nonna all arriving later for a bbq lunch and a fun game of crocquet. Mummy planted lots of flowers earlier that day and daddy got the bbq all fired up and i played pirate with my new pirate accessories on my playhouse.

We were having such a wonderful time until someone yelled at mummy and daddy that our house was leaking water. Boy was it ever! Everyone all pitched in and started mopping up the lake that had formed in our living room, bathrooms and hallway. Then daddy phoned some people and they arrived later to set up big loud fans that would help suck up all the wet stuff.

So now I wonder what can top this excitement for next years Mothers day event?

A tour of the tunnels

Last Monday daddy had the day off cause his friend Kelly was down from Whitehorse so we decided since the weather was great that we should take a trip up to Hope and see the Othello tunnels. Mummy and I had never been and we wanted to check out the great views and pretend to be trains.

These tunnels are a great place to run around, to climb walls and look down through the bridge to the water below. It's also a great place to prentend to be bats and fly around scaring people.

It was fun day and we topped it off by going out for lunch (which wasn't as much fun for mummy and I).

A reason to get dressed up

On Saturday my oldest sister Brittany got married and even though I wasn't involved in the wedding, I got to dress up in my finest and help celebrate. I was even really well behaved through the ceremony and daddy let me lay on the floor when he realized that I was being quiet. Of course all niceness left when it came time for pictures and time for me to get some food into me. But mummy was prepared and bribed me quite nicely with some gummy worms and so we managed to get pictures done without much fuss.

There was some time before the reception so we went to get a bite to eat with my grandparents and aunts and uncles and I had already reached my melt down point so i was a little quarrelsome until I was promised that I could run around at a park later. I still didn't eat much and this worried mummy cause she knows that no food plus pent up energy make a bad combo.

It was time for the reception and dinner and again I ate nothing but instead ate mints and drank punch. Yes the sugar finally hit my system and I had to let it out. So I played knife, spoon and fork air guitar! I must admit I was awesome and I even snagged myself some groupies of older girls. After this though I really hit boiling point and had to be ejected from the reception bodily. I got a few slaps in on the bouncer who was the unfortunate person who got the job of forcibly removing me (yup that'd be mummy) and she got one good spank in after we left the room and then I was given some options for calming down. I choose the book reading and it worked!

Given it was now near my bed time, my parents choose to send me back to my aunt and uncles house to play with my cousins (and also hoping maybe I would crash). So off I went to wreak terror on my people and mummy and daddy stayed to dance. Later when they picked me up I crashed for real on the drive home at 11pm.

I hoping that the next wedding I attend I will be able to stay for the dancing portion as I have some great moves to show off. Instead all I got to show was my tiny 3 yr old terrors.