Canucks

A few weeks ago mom and dad went out in the evening to listen to a man talk endlessly about vacations and finding the money to go away on holiday. As their reward for listening, mom and dad got two tickets to a Canucks game.

If you move in the right social circles i'm sure there are easier ways to get tickets than listening to a timeshare presentation, but as games are generally sold out months in advance despite outrageous ticket prices this was mom and dad's first (and possibly last!) chance to go.

It was such an exciting occasion i got back up when they arrived home to find out who'd won (the Canucks, of course) and then mom let me take her ticket back to bed with me so i could sleep with it on my pillow. what a great mom.

School report

mom and dad failed their first parent-teacher interview by bringing me along. apparently that's not the right thing to do. ah well, you live and learn......

jasmina and caroline think i'm basically a pretty nice guy. i play well on my own and with others, i don't appear to have any particular friends, my favourite things are the sandbox and the water table (no news there!) and i like help putting my shoes on. jasmina wouldn't mind if i wore my wellies right up until the end of june, as i'm ever so quick at putting those on. i'm perhaps a little bit cautious about new things, wanting to check it's safe before i have a turn but mostly i'm turning out OK.

now if only everyone would stop nagging about using the toilet........

Dad takes a day off

Tuesday is kind of a funny day for dad to take off - but hey, i'll take what i can get. Ollie and dad went out for coffee in the morning and then we went out in the afternoon while ollie had a nap. We had SO much fun:
we rode our bikes, played some soccer (dad only had to rescue the ball from the sea once), did some climbing, took some photos




.....maybe we had too much fun?

Batman and Robin

eclipse of the moon

joel and mom go outside:

Joel: "look at the moon. it's turned into a planet.
wow. look at all the stars. can we sing twinkle twinkle to them?

twinkle, twinkle little stars, how i wonder what you are
up above the world so high. like a diamond in the sky.
twinkle, twinkle little stars. how i wonder what you are.

the stars are happy now. can we go inside and get warm?

that was SO beautiful"

when i'm big....

i'm going to drive in my car to the toy shop and buy lots of piggy banks.
what are you going to do with them?
i'm going to put money in them and take them to people's houses.
and what are they going to do with them?
then they can go to the toy shop and buy lots of toys for them

Valentine's day

Valentine's is BIG business in canada. it's a little bit confusing, because my soccer coach is called valentinos, and so i thought he was having a birthday party with a soccer ball cake, but apparently that's not the case.

I had a special envelope at school as a mailbox for all the valentines my classmates gave me. we had to give a card to everyone in the class or no one. mom didn't want to help me make 18 cards (plus 2 for the teachers) so we settled for none. i did get some interesting ones though: a spiderman one wishing me a 'webful of excitement', a barbie one and a cars one, as well as hearts and flowers and mushy stuff. we even had to colour a heart at school as a valentine's for our moms.

mom and i went to the library in the afternoon and i had my backpack with me containing mom's card. someone's granny stopped to talk to me while i was doing some computing, so i took the card out of my bag and gave it to her. she asked if she was meant to keep it and of course i said yes. my card is now proudly displayed on a granny's fridge. it's the first valentine's card she's had for years, and it made her very happy. i told mom the old lady looked as if she needed something to make her happy because she looked a bit sad, and i can always make mom another one if she wanted.

Going to Safeway

ollie and mom and i go to safeway's on a regular basis. they've got a great fire truck that doubles as a trolley. ollie and i drive around the store going brrrrm, brrrrm while mom tries to grab a few things we need. it's not long before ollie gets fed up, and wants to walk. that works for a few minutes until he starts pulling things off the shelves at which point we go and visit the cookie lady. if i ask nicely she gives ollie and i both a chocolate chip cookie ! this serves as mom's three minute warning - just long enough to dump a couple more things in the trolley and it's time to go.
however.....today we went to safeway on a field trip with school. we went inside the freezers where they store the icecream. we spoke to the butcher and the flower lady. we even went to the bakery counter but..... ...the cookie lady pretended she didn't even know me!!!