Clowning Around

Stuff we do during the day:

Feed the ducks.


Play in the dirt with the cats.....


Go to the beach.


Play soccer with dad.


Go to the park.


Slide races with my friend Izzy



Drive my race car


and my family car


My new friends

Logan.



and Izzy



Have a snack


Pick flowers for mom.


Wave to the deer in the yard.

Bath time

Choosing toys for the bath...


Getting in the tub...


Getting out of the tub...


I really don't like these bubbles!


I REALLY don't like these bubbles!


Daddy styles my hair...


Time for bed! Good night!

Strawberry Festival

This past weekend was the strawberry festival and we decided to join in. Kian was a bit young for most of the activities but was really happy to see that he isn't the only kid on the planet! He loves to watch the other children. He had a blast seeing the horses giving rides and seeing all the dogs in the park. The best part was eating the strawberries, of course! He ate as much strawberries and ice cream as Mark and I did!

I love strawberries!


Watching the horses.



The school I want to go to!


My first balloon!


Strawberry-sand castle cake


Still got my balloon!


Watching the model sailboat with my daddy and my toothbrush prize!

Our First Visitors!

The last couple weeks seem to have flown by!

Kian has been sick for about a week now and generously passed it on to me. Hopefully Mark doesn't get sick as well. Kian had a fever which sent us to a walk-in clinic after regular office hours. At least the line up wasn't long and as predicted before we even left the house, everything we were doing was right and there was nothing else we could do. It turns out that he has an ear infection and is now on anti-biotics for the first time.

We met up with some old friends who have also recently moved onto the island (close to Duncan). I hadn't seen Cara for nearly 20 years (god I feel old just saying that!) and we had a chance to meet her family (Simon, Avery and David-Dad). We had a fantastic dinner and had a chance to catch up a little. Now that we are so close I know that we'll be seeing a lot more of each other.

Then we had a really nice visit from Mike and Ania (our first visitors), who are now engaged (welcome to the family). They only stayed the day, but had a great time at the Tall Ship festival and went out for some fantastic sushi before they took the ferry back to Vancouver. Here's wishing them the best of luck in Poland!


Having lunch with Daddy at his office!




Cow field at Cara's house.



Cara & Avery.





Having lunch with Ania.





Mike and Ania with some strange Pirate.





Mike and Ania in front of Parliament.





At the beach with Daddy.




Testing the waters.



A nice photo of me with my Auntie Renee.




Bye bye everyone...see you soon.

Our First Month

Smiles, smiles!


One month has gone by so quickly I don't even know where to start!

We moved into our new house successfully, although the U-Haul had a hard time making it into our very steep driveway and the road in front of our house will bear the marks until they some day (!) decide to repave it! Unpacking all our stuff was motivating in the first week, but then we decided that the dining room really couldn't be entered until the wall paper was stripped and the book shelves really couldn't go up until the carpet was removed.... Hopefully the boxes will be gone soon!

Moving in!


Wales! I missed you!


Kian is growing like a weed! He has decided in the last week that he is feeding himself and that mom and dad can't help anymore. That makes things a little more messy but he seems to getting enough to eat! His two front teeth are now in and he is walking holding on to our hands. He is fast on his hands and knees that you have to run to put up the baby gates before he gets there!



Kian and I have joined a mom and baby hiking group. We have only been on one walk so far but we walk at least 5 km a day around the golf course. I do it with Kian on my back. I must say that is pretty tiring! Mark and I have tried to meet some of the neighbours. They are all very nice. It seems that the people who lived her before us really weren't liked very much and no one talked to them.

Worn out from the walk.


We are really enjoying the new house, neighbourhood and Victoria in general so far. We are looking forward to our first visitors....!


Still my favourite!


Boy do they have big squirrels here!


Calling Oma!

Quirky House

Well, I am finally getting to posting photos of our new quirky house. It was built in 1929 so it has some things happening in it that are a little strange by today's standards. All the previous owners seemed to have their say about how it should look and now we have the chance to have ours as well! The house is a great place for kids, with a secret walk-through closet into the kids rooms upstairs, a strange little closet under the stairs and a really narrow passage way to the front door, as well as a basement with exposed rock good for playing tag in and a dog house for Mark...just kidding! One thing it doesn't have is window screens which is great for the cats, but not for me trying to keep them in the house! At least there are no mosquitos. The previous owners weren't much for gardening so the gardens are a little (!) wild at the moment. We are hoping to get there this summer, but we will see.

I have started removing the lovely wall paper that seems to be everywhere. I think some of it must be really old because I don't remember the last time I saw gold wall paper at Home Depot...! I have to keep reminding myself that I can only start one project at a time. There are so many that we want to do.






We're home!


Picnic in the kitchen.


Kitchen door.


Blue kitchen.....


The wall paper scene in the window to no-where


Some lovely wall paper in the spare room. Note the gold wall paper in the closet...


Secret walk-through closet from loft to Kian's room.