Saturday night dinner for 4 adults (Grandpa and Joan had a stopover on their way home from Croatia) and 3 kids. At this point, I was the one following the instructions as he called out: Mommy, please put in some basil, I’ll tell you how much. Now some oregano. Now this and now that….. The […]
Browsing Tag: Nolan
67th out of 500 runners at the Cross Country Meet
Personal best – 87th place last year.
Possible fracture at the tip of the distal ulna
Nolan stuck one shoe into the loop of the laces of the other shoe and fell while at school. This resulted in a phone call home and a visit to the North York General Hospital emergency department. Offending shoelaces have been trimmed!
Bow and arrow
Nolan’s finished reading The Ranger’s Apprentice series over the summer and is now acting it out 🙂 Branch, elastic bands, stir stick from an experiment kit, suction cup that fell off something.
Nolan’s Day 2017 – done in 2018
Every year, around their birthday, LL takes the birthday child out of school, and spends the day with the birthday child. Nolan didn’t get his day in 2017 so we did it today. He’s collecting his 2018 day later this year. First, he finds a toonie in the parking meters on the way to the […]
Nolan cleans a fish
His favourite activity after an orthodontist appointment is to hit the Chinese grocery store downstairs for some sort of seafood he hasn’t had before. Today, he chose a whole turbot, a whole pompano, and a whole skipjack tuna. I’m glad he put down the humongous octopus tentacle he initially had his eye on 🙂
Leith fun Jul 1-8
For sale! It was sold before we were able to add it to our collection of boats. Brrrrr … that’s just way too cold for me!
Sunday fun
Wonder what these two are up to. I know what he’s doing! Gave him the recipe and told him to double it. Aha, so that’s what he was building. She’s still at it. And voila! In case you couldn’t tell, she made a bench.