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Kate lost her mittens today. She remembered exactly where she'd left them but it was on a park bench when her class went on field trip to a park near her school. Of course the park is in exactly the wrong direction from our house. Three cheers for taking twice as long to get home from the school. Kate was so tired that two blocks from our house ( Read more... )

Kate and I went costume shopping today. We started at Kaboom. Kate had said several times that she wanted to be Pablo from the Backyardigans this year. I'd checked a couple of websites and they all listed the Pablo costume as discontinued so I wasn't to hopeful. Lucky we found this cute bat costume and we both really liked it. So she'll be a ( Read more... )

So we often have family movie nights on Friday. When I go down to the Blockbuster my goal is pretty straight forward.... find a title that is suitable for Kate, that will amuse her and yet won't make Andy and I want to gouge out our eyes with spoons. We've watched a lot of Pixar flicks and live action family movies. So this week Kate and I hit ( Read more... )

For anyone who's looking for the information...

Canadian National Do Not Call List
https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/

So we took Kate to see Igor yesterday. Not a movie for everyone's four year old but Kate loved it. That's not what this post is about though ( Read more... )

So I went to the meeting at Kate's school last night. It's such a mess I really felt for the staff of the school. This is happening very quickly and they have to keep redoing their work to meet a moving target. The good news is it looks like the superintendent was able to scrap together two exemptions (they are in limited supply within the board ( Read more... )

So the provincial government passed a rule that said that primary classes can't have more then 20 students in them. The class limit for Junior is 30 I think. The schools arrange the classes in June based on the projected enrollment for the fall. But things change. People move in and out of the neighborhood. People suddenly relise the missed ( Read more... )

That their baby girl was born this morning at 10:41. She's 7lb 8oz. Not a bad weight given she's three weeks early. Bryony had to have a c-section but is recovering well.

I know asking a toddler to eat a chocolate bar without making a mess is about as optimistic as asking terrorists to transport your nuclear bomb and expecting it to arrive safely at it's destination. But wow, talk about an epic mess.