For the easter weekend us and a bunch of friends from Vancouver rented a place in Tofino. We had a great time and were lucky enough to get a couple of rare sunny days on the beach. Inspecting some recently made pictograms. Headed off on a hike. Traffic jam in the logs (I’m not sure why we chose to dress one kid in beach-camo and the other in hunting-season-safety wear). Look out sandcastles!
Drumbeg Park at the south end of Gabriola is a fantastic place; meadows, beaches, trails, it has it all, and I think it might be the first place on the island that spring reaches. Look Ma! a stick. Look Ma! Another stick. The biggest stick of all I go wherever gravity takes me! . . . or wherever Dad takes me.
Hoping to find a Valentine at toddler play group.
. . . for baking powder man!
The winter weather has been putting a bit of a damper on our outside time, so yesterday we invested in a pair of XXXS waterproof coveralls. The kids look a bit like a pair of ambulatory marshmallows, but going outside in the rain was a big hit.
Nyah and West had their first birthday today and we partied hard, one-year-old style. They pushed some presents around the floor. and then ate the wrapping. Some also chose to sit in the present box. The party really got going when we brought out the empty water jugs and continued when we headed upstairs to play on the spare mattress. A big hit was laying the office chair on its back. And things wound up with a round of cupcakes.
Some highlights of the fall so far include: When West fought a pumpkin (ended in a draw). When Nyah ate a pumpkin (the last bite of an 80 pounder). A cardboard tunnel (toy of the year). Our ongoing window washing project. And I’ll just finish with some gratuitous cute kid pics.
We decided to try our luck at prawning again yesterday. This time we dropped the trap just before lunch and went back out to pick it up just before dinner. We figured that the number of prawns caught would scale linearly with the time the trap was down, giving us 62.5 prawns for a 5 hour set. Actually, to be honest, we expected more like 100 prawns since we reckoned that for the first hour word was just getting around…
Today was gorgeous and sunny so we took the boat out and dropped the prawn trap. It was only down for 2 hours (the crew got restless sailing around to kill time), but we caught 25 prawns. Six were carrying roe so we threw them back, but it was still our best haul ever. Our old PB was 3 prawns, so this is a significant improvement and a much more substantial (ie noticeable) contribution to dinner.
This face cracks me up every time.