Since it seems we're not moving in the near future, I'm finally "doing" Hunter's room. I've always wanted to fix it up but never really bothered since it always seemed like we might be moving, never had the money or time, etc. It's bugging me being so boring and generic.

( I'm quite pleased with how things are coming together )

We took Hunt to Beckwith park last night again. It was a lot busier but we still had a lot of fun.

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I decided to take it upon myself to make Hunt a large reusable wall-schedule. It turned out to be a far more ambitious and messy project than I originally thought. Still not finished but I'm having a lot of fun making it!

Humble beginning


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A crafts update. Hunter and I have been doing a lot of craft-ing lately. We've finished off a few shoeboxes and some random stuff. Much fun!



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It was the year-ender at Hunter's daycare. He'll be staying on for another month but most of his friends (Shayden, Mykayla) have gone on to other daycares now. We got two CDs, one with an awesome movie and one with all the daycare pictures, so here's a few to share.

With Cathy, his caregiver


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Uncle Dan and Jenn had a jewelery show so we stopped by to visit.


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Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there! We headed back to Saanich Historical Museum for a second time. I think he enjoys it even more every time we go.



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A couple randoms of a very nice snail we found on our way home.

Just a random cute one, waiting for the bus this morning

It was the 2008 Oak Bay Tea Party and we had a blast. It happens once a year and the parade goes right by our house, so we just have to drag our chairs out front and watch from the lawn. Then there's a midway amusement park that runs for two days down at the beach a few blocks away. It's a pretty fun time and I've been waiting for Hunter to be old enough to really enjoy it all and he definitely was this year.

He even tried a couple of the games. One is a simple Duck-Grab, where you grab bobbing ducks and on the bottom is "S" "M" "L" for the size of your prize. And the other was a fishing one where you use your magnet pole to grab alligators with magnets on them and also the size of the prize on the bottom. He also tried the hammer strength one but since I had to help him with it, no pictures. But here's the spoils, he wanted the pink Princess hammer lol.

Eagerly waiting


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It was the GAP Reunion today. For those that don't know GAP was the education program that I was in during my pregnancy, which serves pregnant and parenting teen girls. It's a wonderful amazing program and there was no way we were missing the reunion!



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A busy day again. We headed out to the store, then off to Beacon Hill Petting Zoo and then off to Uncle Damon's for a BBQ! Tiring!



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What do you do with a lot of construction paper? Eat ice cream and have glue fun!


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Mother's Day Weekend was great!

Jason took Hunter and I out for dinner and it was so tasty. And we got a free cheesecake on top of that, so what could possibly be better? We also trekked over to Auntie Lolos for a dinner with Dan, Jenna and Co and got to play with classic/vintage Lego, which spurs me to buy massive quantities because man, I miss it like crazy. Hunter loves it, although the small manipulations are still a bit hard and frustrate him.


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Just one pic, cuz it's cute.

Lovely weekend.

We ran out of diapers on Thurs and didn't buy any until this afternoon and somehow made it through with only two accidents. Not too bad! He's refused to try going potty at daycare all of a sudden so I have to use diapers for that but I'm trying to leave him in undies at home and he does so well, even all night at home. It's a frustrating sort of thing as we're just hanging on the last wire of diapers.

We got new shoes, he's now a 6.5-7. They're Lightning McQueen sandals that light up. He's never happy with them at first and yelled and hollered for his "fire truck boots" but he adjusts pretty fast.

Spent yesterday chilling at home and today over at Jason's, so without further adieu...

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A little grumpy after daycare...

What a busy little day we've already had!

Hunter went off to daycare and had a blast. It was about 12 degrees today and lovely out so they spent about 3 hours outside, playing in the yard and with the sandbox. I envy him.

He was a little grumpy when I picked him up but some treats and the promise of fun at home helped. We picked up some food and fed the ducks on the way home, then played with waterballoons, then had a snack and now it's relaxation time.

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We had family brunch this morning. Dan and Jenn came as well as Auntie Lolo, Uncle Bruce and cousin Paul. Hunter had such a blast.

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I've been oggling some quality wooden toys for him and started to make some purchases. A while back I got him the wooden food sets from Melissa & Doug. There's just something so amazing about quality wood toys with good craftsmanship. So much cooler than junky and tacky plastic. So I've oggled the Terrace Dollhouse by Plan Toys for a while now and finally picked it up yesterday. I get a 15% discount so it was a great price for the house and a few accessory sets. Hunter is loving it and I'm loving him playing with something semi educational and quality (not tv or cars).

Hunter and I managed to simultaneously feel better and get sick with something else over the weekend, ugh! Thankfully this is just a lowly cold and a few sniffles didn't make us back out of Hunter's friend Preston's third birthday on Saturday.



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