The summer just keeps moving, I can't believe how busy we've been! There's been a lot of downtime, but you just don't feel it when you're hustling so much to all these places. It's been amazing. :-D

Yesterday it was off with Lolo to Beacon Hill Petting Zoo to see the new baby piglets.

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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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The moans and joys abound.

We've entered a new phase of separation anxiety where he wants Jason on call 24/7. At least once a day now we have to stop what we're doing and just sit and have some mope time. He sits and whimpers "miss daddy" "I want daddy." So we've been visiting quite a bit and it's been nice. We took him for a walk around the parliament buildings in the evening the other day and it was all lit up. He even got to pet a horse!

Today, Auntie Lolo, Hunter and I took off to find some beach.

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This entry actually encompasses a few days and few different trips to the beach. I didn't update or sort my pictures and now I can't remember what days we did which. :-) From somewhere between April 6 and 12th or so.

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What a busy and absolutely wonderful Pre-Halloween weekend we've had here. :-D I can't believe we still have 3 more days of fun before it's even Halloween.

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Jason, Hunter and I hit Butterfly Gardens today.

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Off to the Build-A-Bear shop today!

Ended up being a bit of a flop. Despite having had a decent nap, Hunter was mostly tired and whiny well before we got the mall. It was also a bit of an overload anyway. So we only spent about 6 minutes inside the store and he looked at this or that and mostly found some $45 cars he was determined to tackle and sit in even though they were far too small. When I try to get him to pick out the bear shell, he shook his head on every single one then tried to dismantle the window display. After that he had a mini meltdown when I didn't let him continue on his destructive reign so I just hauled him out of the store.

We headed off to Willows Beach for a bit and picked up some dinner, and that was fun. He's becoming so physical these days, running more, climbing more, jumping and tackling a lot of things he wouldn't have a while back...such as wobbly bridges and bigger heights.

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More Willows fun with Nana and Mama!

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Jason, Hunter and I took off to the Parksville Beach Festival yesterday. Uncle Damon was competing in the sandcastling there. :-)

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Isaac came over this afternoon again!

We always get so busy with company. I had originally bought this pool when Hunter was just a wee babe and it's like 4 feet across, way too big for him at the time so we moved to a smaller pool...which is now very much too small, especially with company. I came across it the other day sorting things in the garage. I had thought I'd given it away in our charity pick up! I was so happy when I found it. Today was hot hot hot! Perfect pool weather to test it out and it's good as ever! The boys had a blast.



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Happy Canada Day!

We took young'un bucket shopping the other day and Jason found him a very funky bucket. The weather was so nice that we had to take him down to the beach to test'er out. :-D



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We took Hunter to the beach this evening and much fun was had!



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