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.

( Oink Oink! )

It was the 2008 trip to Fort Rodd Hill today. I got a little snap happy and ended up taking almost 300 pictures, which I was only able to weed down to 230 pictures. Needless to say, I've picked about 40 from the Fort and 15 or so from Fisgard Lighthouse, which I'll break up into two entries.

Since we did go last year, you can view most of the "regular" pictures in that entry. I've mostly only included some of the stuff that was new. I managed to get lots of sign pictures so I can actually write up stuff this time!

( Onward Tour Ho!!! )

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


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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.

Eagerly waiting


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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).

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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And so concludes Halloween 07. :-) It was a mixed affair. Mostly fun with a few tears.


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Bring on the pictures! It's Thanksgiving!
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Lazy day here today. The weather is definitely turning towards winter and has been chilly, windy and downright pouring. Thankfully it wasn't too bad today and cleared up to some sun for early this evening. That can only mean one thing...


( Beach time with Lolo! )

( Also gave him a new haircut.... )

Aunt Lolo, Hunter and I headed off to Fort Rodd Hill today, something I've been wanting to do for a bit now. It was awesome! :-)

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Jason, Hunter and I hit Butterfly Gardens today.

( But first...more beach! )

It was off to the petting zoo again yesterday for Nana, Lolo, Mama and Hunter!

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My aunt Laurel, mum and I trundled little guy down to Undersea Gardens this afternoon. Man, what a total and utter disappointment really. For $9.50 for an adult, you go down this huge flight of stairs for one. There's no wheelchair or stroller access, nor were we even warned. Not a huge deal but slightly annoying. Then it's like 30 feet long with some windows and fish. I remember it being a lot more exciting when I was younger. Definitely too much money for that. But it was new and Hunter enjoyed it decently well, especially the star fish. They even had a small pool where he could touch them, which he did.

We stopped and had lunch at the museum cafe, where they made a special chocolate milk just for him. Ah yes, always the royal treatment for his Princelyness. We got a nice window seat so he could watch the cranes working away and steal all the "raise!" (raisens) out of our muffin.

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