After almost 10 days, the backyard rink got its first use today.
Browsing Tag: Felix
Activities
Sick Kids Checkup
Due to covid, we had delayed a couple of Felix’s processor checkups and and replaced one visit with a virtual one. We went in for this checkup as there’s some machines and instruments that are required to complete his checkup. One of the checks is to confirm that the volume of his processors is not […]
Activities / Covid19
Cherry picking
Some friends invited us over for cherry picking. Lara was feeling under the weather from her second dose, and Nolan and Neil were out on an errand, so Felix and I biked over.
Covid19
Concussion
On Friday, Neil and I drove down to Sick Kids Hospital to pick up a streamer for him. After school ended, while the boys were goofing around, Nolan picked Felix up by his ankles and subsequently dropped him, on his head. We returned home a short while later to find a very subdued Felix. He […]
Activities
Paid yard work
Having observed the kids out and about the last couple of years, the neighbour two houses down (Ivan) asked if they would be interested in some paid yard work on his property. Well, that was an unequivocal ‘Yes!’. And then they got to work. While chatting with Ivan, Nolan told him that if he bought […]
Celebrations
Felix’s 11th
Slide show for one of his gifts [click the arrows to scroll through]. Hugs and kisses all around!
Food
Felix’s chocolate cheesecake
Felix wanted to make his birthday cake this year, a chocolate cheesecake with chocolate icing. I used this recipe for the chocolate wafer cookies for the crust. Tweaks were:– halved both sugars– increased butter from 113 g to 120 g ish We used this recipe for the cheesecake. Tweaks included:– removed all the sugar in […]
Celebrations
Felix’s 10th
His request was for a chocolate-vanilla-chocolate-vanilla layered cake. I figured interpretation was up to me. 🙂 Hugs all around! Bonus: with covid19, I had bought cream cheese the week before in case his request turned out to be chocolate cheesecake. So we had a chocolate cheesecake the following week. 🙂
Food
Saturday meals by the kids
Bonus day. I only made lunch as Lara made breakfast, Nolan made dinner (more to come later) and Felix made dessert!