In just a short few weeks,
our little A is entering Kindergarten. We are trying to savor the last
bit of summer and enjoy this time before September kicks in. As much as
we are looking forward to sending A off to school, it's also sad to let
him go!!
Granville Island
homemade monkey cupcakes for Noah's bday
This summer has been filled with some lazy days and some busy days. Poh-poh came for a visit and was here to celebrate Noah's 3rd birthday. We managed to do some hikes around North Vancouver (much to Auntie Lulu's prompting!) and we were utterly surprised at how easily the boys hiked 4km! We also had our first family camping trip to Porteau Cove this past weekend. We all enjoyed the simplicity of the great outdoors -the boys played endlessly with rocks and logs and even Emmy had fun crawling in nature- we are definitely doing it again. Sleeping will hopefully be better for Emmy next time since this time around, she woke up every two hours or so. Despite the lack of sleep, it was all worth it!!! Camping was even more special as we were surrounded by wonderful and generous friends. Can you believe that we not only had one canoe to use but two?!?
waterfront view
One sad event happened this summer: saying good-bye to Milo (our first dog). Due to an unfortunate event of Milo biting Aidan, we decided to put him down. Thankfully, Aidan was not hurt and the bite did not break any skin but it was one of the hardest things that we've had to do. Milo was getting quite old (not exactly sure how old he was as he was adopted from the SPCA, maybe ~13 years) and we think that the added stress of the kids was starting to get to him. We want to remember Milo as our loyal rescue dog who loved tummy rubs, cheese and oranges. We were also able to adopt Rylee because we already had Milo! All in all, Milo had a good life and we miss him lots. Here is one of the last moments that we had with him...
