Another weekend, Tess returns…
Tess returned from Toronto on Friday afternoon. She stayed an extra few days to visit with friends and family… she even bought a surprise care package of groceries for my niece, Carly, while in London, dropping it off with a housemate when Carly was out at a class. Do I have a great and thoughtful wife or what? Tess & I missed Valentine’s Day together but in addition to arranging for a card to be given to Tess in Toronto, I also did my annual collage. I have posted a copy of it here… click on the pic to see the large version. Yes, that’s Sela sleeping on the floor… she fell out of bed while Tess was away but was so tired she didn’t even wake-up! Oh and by the way, Jasper has started sleep walking.
While Tess was away, Sebastian had a Fairy Tale Day at school. Apparently the Primary 1 classes have all been working on fairy tale stories. Seb’s story was Peter Pan. Wednesday night we pulled out all his green clothes and belt to select the most appropriate items for him to wear. I also gave him brand new wellies. I bought the boots last year but was waiting to give them to Seb only after he outgrew his last pair of rainboots. Sure enough, the old boots no longer fit him, so he received real welly boots just like his cousin Galen. (Even I am jealous – they are pretty cool boots!) I also made a hat ~ complete with a red feather ~ and the next morning when Seb was all dressed up I took the accompanying picture! The sword was a sponge nerf-type item that I brought back from my business trip… I had an armload of them. A great way for the kids to play fight without taking each others limbs off. (I know, I know, real swords would only cause flesh wounds.)
Today Tess had the brilliant idea of taking the kids and her parents out to City Hall for Dim Sum. We got there right as the restaurant opened and lucked out by securing a table right by the window, overlooking the harbour… uh, where a major land reclamation project is underway. Okay, not the prettiest of views. The kids did pretty well, experimenting rather tentatively on various dim sum delicacies with encouragement. We do know they love Singapore noodles and chicken fried rice – an ample supply of that was consumed. And what a miracle… all of the kids sampled the garlic pak choy. The real hero was Carys, who had seconds of the chinese veggies and used chop sticks to eat her Singapore noodles. Great fun and food was had by all. Many thanks to Grandad Blake who insisted on picking up the tab.
