Off to Chemainus with Jason and Damon today to see Uncle Gerald & Aunt Val (And Deeogee). Quite a fun trek! Had dinner then headed up to Nanaimo for a short drop-in at a family gathering with Cousin Wendy. Then back home with a 1.5 hour delay on the Malahat due to an accident. Hunter was quite an angel during the whole trek, what a trooper.



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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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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.

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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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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).

Went to a BBQ over at Damon's yesterday, was fun! Lots of bubble blowing, helicopter chasing, yelling and good food, for us at least. One of these days I'll get a big juicy burger in to that boy.

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Dan and Jenn stopped by unexpectedly to visit. It was awesome. :-D

Hunter played with some legos and played hide-and-seek. We had a totally ingenious hiding spot too.



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Time continues to fly by. :-)

It was Uncle Dan's 25th birthday on the 13th. We had his party on the 16th. Not a huge or spectacular affair, I'd been sick for days. Hunter was also a bit sick and tantrum'd through most of it until I put him to bed in the middle of dinner. It was also his friend Jakob's third birthday. And work on pottying!

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