Love the Library

London has a lot of libraries. It's wonderful, especially now with computers, we can go online and look up books we want and place holds on them. I get emailed when they arrive at my closest library. When it's time to return them, I get a reminder email 3 days prior, or a renew them. We mostly go to the downtown one. It has a large children's section, and we love the ladies that do story time, with music too. We also go to our local one, Cherryhill. The staff are really nice and friendly. They are great with Anthony, and let him use his card. He is good at finding books he likes. Lately, it's been non-fiction ones about transportation. One visit recently, he spotted the New Cars 2 book, on the top shelf. I think I'll buy that one, since he loves it so much. It has all the characters names and where they're from, and what they can do. I thought they were all race cars. No, he set me straight. lol. Videos are great too, well some are scratched and don't work well, but still good that our taxes are paying for them. We just need to remember to return them after a week, or renew them. It's $1/day fine for them.

Today, Anthony was suppose to start JK. Unfortunately, he has had a fever the past two days. I called to let them know he wouldn't be there. We were both bummed out, he was so excited to go. I hope Monday will still be a memorable first day for him. I'm proud to know that he will be starting school already enjoying books. One milestone he had this year, is repeating the book I read to him back to me. Sometimes, even the first time we've read it. Ava likes looking at the animal books. She loves the dog pictures best.

Catch Up Time

It's been a while since I posted. Partly, my laziness and just busy trying to pack in as much fun as possible, before work and school starts..ahh! Here's my niece Emma enjoying the hammock with me. Actually, we were both laughing pretty good here. I was having a hard time fitting my butt on without crawling on top of her.

 Ed's brother, David let us use his house in the Bend for a couple days, while he was away. Nice weather and lots of pool time. Bonus, after the kids fell asleep, we got to hop in the hot tub. It is so peaceful there, in the middle of the woods. I love that Anthony is getting so confident in the water. I think by next summer, he might be able to take the water wings off.

 Port Franks Beach. I think we managed to get three beach days in this summer. It's been  great summer weather. Anthony and Ava both like the beach and the water. This is the first summer in a long time, I remember going right in. Normally, it's too cold for me.

 This sing-along book "Ba Ba Black Sheep" was a favourite from the library. I renewed it 3 times.LOL. She would grab it and sit on our lap a few times a day.

 This is my 16 mth old singing "Twinkle twinkle little star" Or "Ba Ba Black Sheep"!! I think she has daddy's musical genes passed down. I have been trying to video tape her, with my camera, and she gets distracted and says "EESS" (cheese)...I think I will need Ed's help with a it.

 She's getting so big, near the end of August.

 First visit to the new Thames Pool. We LOVED it! It is like a beach, without sand! Anthony was at Bible Camp this week, so Ava and I met a mommy friend there for a play date. It was nice having some one on one time with my girl. Another day, I took Anthony. I knew he loved the pool, and maybe the slide. He was just tall enough to go down. He had fun, and didn't want to go home.

We met Joan and her girls for a little play date in the park. Ava and Rylie are two months apart.