Summer Camp

Summer arts day camp at the North Peace Cultural Centre.
The camp goes from 9:00am - 5:00pm! long day

This is Chaplin's first full day in a school like setting, and I asked him if he was ready to go this morning. His reply was very positive!
"I'm very excited. YES"

When I dropped him off I went outside the class room and watched him through a glass window. He went over to a corner with toys, but he was unsure of himself so he just stood looking at them. The art leader noticed and brought two younger girls over to meet him.The one girl has been to this camp a few times and she took Chaplin by the hand and welcomed him into the class! He seemed to relax some, and when I popped my head in to say my final good bye to him, he was beaming (and still holding the girls hand). He is by far the youngest in the class.

I'll send an update from Chaplin on how his day went.

UPDATE: He loved it! on our way out he stopped and thanked art leader
"Thank you for looking after me for the day."
Oh and he made a sock puppet and it's name is: MAN DRAGON.

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day Adam!

Chaplin wrote a story for his dad called "Piggy and the Lamb." unfortunately for Adam, the story had nothing to do with a father son theme, and in the ending it was actually a mom sheep who saved the day!

But these photos tell a pretty good story of a son with one terrific dad.

Pushing Chaplin on the swing

helping Chaplin build the tower of his wishes

encouraged him to try hockey at the Olympic Village

took Chaplin to Science World to explore the pirate exhibit.

Spent the day at the Children's Festival.

Adam helped the kids dress up as a super pirate, an alien, spider man and a fire woman.

Helped Chaplin decorate his bike to ride in the Point Grey Parade.

Chaplin couldn't wait to wave to Adam as he rode by.

Rode on the wild Spider, both boys were dizzy and sick after!

a view from the top for Susanna and Chaplin

After dinner we went and watched Christie's last violin recital and on the way home stopped at Dairy Queen for Blizzards!

And a sweet picture of Chaplin looking down at the camera showing me his crazy hair.

and another sweet photo of Chaplin with his Nana.

we miss you Fever.

Fever

RIP

August 1997 - June 2010

She was my fluffy baby, and I loved her. I am going to miss her more than words can explain.

What a unique place...

Handsome Adam standing on the Santa Monica Pier. This was our first night in town.

And this was our last day in town:

We venture down to Venice beach to check out the famous "muscle beach" i was shocked at how absolutely strange this area is! We saw a man, about 50 years old, hop onto his skateboard, whistle at his dog - who go onto the front of the skateboard, and off they went. BUT the strange part was they had matching mohawks, both died blue. Poor dog.

Then we saw this man skate by! Nobody else seemed to be gawking at this clown... and the strange part was he would stop and out of a bag he'd pull out shirts to sell

OHHH NO! this is more like MOLSON MUSCLE BEACH!

Us down by the ocean. It was chilly.

Today's fun.

The pirate ship floats again.

Southern California Sun

I've been out of Canada for mother's day twice this year.
Yes it did come twice for me... see blog Mum's the word - twice! !!!!
Adam had a few meetings here in Santa Monica and I got to tag along.

So yesterday I called Chaplin and he said
"Good Morning mommy Happy Mothers Day" in his little chirpy voice and my heart melted.
I tried to keep him on the phone as long as I could, but a four year old with a full day ahead of him had other things on his mind. He is staying at Watham's house, and '"m sure he's being fully entertained by Susanna (she's home from University for the summer), Christie and Robert (I think he was home for the weekend). Adam took me to see IronMan 2 and dinner at Sushi Roku.
Good movie, and best sushi I've ever had. YES better than sushigo!!!!

Oh and we've spotted one celebrity, Natascha McElohne at the farmers market on Main Street. Main Street is like 4th Ave in Kits.


Boardwalk. Just down from our hotel, and on the peir we found Bubba Gumps. It took me a bit to decide what Santa Monica feels like then this morning I decided it is Big City Beach Town (the air smells like Maui from our hotel patio).

Have you ever heard of June Gloom or May Gray from the marine layer? yeah me neither!
Anyways, it has something to do with the sun not really coming out until later in the morning! I don't understand, but anyways the sun did come out at about 10:00 am and it's beautiful!

Two Firsts

FIRST first:

HEY... what's going on here?

First hair cut... or maybe it's more like First Trim.

Chaplin flat out refused to have his hair cut - until today.

He went with Adam today to watch his daddy have his hair trimmed and when Adam was done Chaplin felt it was okay to let a few of his own long locks get snipped. He did not want it short, but the bangs are now off his eyes.

http://kristydavies.com/

(this is our hair dresser, and she even put a picture of me on her website)

SECOND FIRST -

After his hair-cut the boys went to the optometrist. Adam has 20/15 vision - so he's got super hero eyeballs. Big deal. And Chaplin has his dad's eyes with perfect vision. Dr. Renke told Adam that Chaplin was the best patient he had ever had in the office.

Learn to Ride

This morning we went for a bike ride with the Nordby family. Adam was pulling Chaplin in the Chariot behind his bike when he decided today was the day that Chaplin gets his first bike. So after our ride and some lunch we went shopping.

Lori: What do you think of your new bike?

Chaplin: it's great, I like riding on the sea wall and it's DARK BLUE.

This is a birthday gift from Nana & Papa Viens. Thank you, it's a perfect fit.

First crash. He took this corner too fast and actually tipped right over into the weeds.

He didn't let his crash stop him, he got right back on his bike and continued to pedal hard.

Stop in the park for a rest.

A fellow stopped and asked us "What breed is he?"

I said "pardon me?" ... he's human of course!... OH you mean the DOG not the KID!

Too funny and Fever is a she not a he, can't you tell.