Making Friends

The other night Asher met this cute little puppy Bear while walking into Grandma and Grandpa's place. Bear is 7 weeks old and was going for his first walk, although wasn't doing much walking at all!

Asher and I stopped for a visit with Bear, who decided to climb right into Asher's car seat! It was too cute not to snap a few photos!

A Weekend of Firsts

This weekend Asher enjoyed both his first Western Speedway night and his first Field Lacrosse Game!

On Saturday I took him to watch Daddy and Uncle Glen race. He was pretty bundled up and ended up sleeping through most of it. The sprint car main even was a bit loud since there were so many of them, so I had to take him under the stands, but all in all it was a good night!

Here he is before being bundled up, wearing his outfit with the orange race car on it for daddy...

All bundled up, cuddling with Grandma P:

All bundled in his car seat on the way home:


Today we went down to watch the final men's and women's field lacrosse games at Summer Slam. It was such a nice day and it was great to see some of the ladies I used to play with too!

Asher and Daddy at Summer Slam:

Cutest kid ever!!!

Cousins

Asher and Kiana have the same PJ's, just in different colours, so Aunty Tricia and I thought it would be neat to snap a few pics of them matching the other night! Unfortunately we didn't get any great shots and Asher was amused with something on the other side of the room, so I only got one with them both looking, and neither one looks impressed, but you get the idea....

Baby Train

On Wednesday, Asher, Aunty Tricia, Cousin Kiana and I went over to visit Tesia and her baby Alyssia. Asher is just 2 weeks older then Alyssia, and Kiana is the oldest having 6 months on both of them!

It is so nice that all the babies can hang out together... they really enjoy it! ;O)

In the afternoon we packed up all the babes and took them for a walk on the goose... the above picture is of all the kiddlets in their car seats... oddly enough they all had a gitter bugs hanging from their seats, which makes the picture look really staged but it was truly a coincidence.

In awesome news, the little man has been sleeping really well this week, and mommy and daddy have been getting some good chunks of sleep, which is sooo nice!!!

This weekend Asher is hoping to meet his Great Aunty Debbie and Cousin Shelbey, they live up island and are planning to come down for a visit!

Here is a picture of Abbi hanging out on Asher's floor mat:

Real PJ's

Asher wearing real two piece pj's for the first time... so cute!!

Lights of Courage

Tonight we went downtown to hang our lanterns for the lights of courage campaign, to celebrate the courage of people who are fighting, have beaten, or have succumbed to cancer.

It was really quite beautiful to see the hundreds of colourful Chinese paper lanterns illuminated in rows, and the hand written messages expressing hope, humour, love, grief and inspiration.

Each lantern comes with a paper tag, on which people can write a message as a tribute to anyone they know who has been diagnosed with cancer. I thought that this would be a great thing for us to do as a family so we could all think about the many ways that cancer has affected our lives. It was especially special to me because my dad has been diagnosed with cancer and will be starting his chemo treatments on Monday.

Asher wrote his Lantern for his Grumpy M, Great Grandpa Ross, Great Grandpa Irwin and Great Grandpa Percival. We know Grumpy will beat this thing so he can see his grandson grow big and strong!!!

Grumpy and Grandma M in front of our lanterns:

Asher trying to stay warm in his blankey:

Road Trip!

This last Sunday we headed up to Parksville for a visit with Uncle Glen, Aunty Tricia and Cousin Kiana at their family cabin in Qualicum Bay and to see the sand castles!

Baboo (this is my nickname for Asher) did pretty darn good on the trip up. We stopped once in Duncan so he could eat and had smooth sailing for the rest of the trip!

We met Aunty and Uncle in Parksville and walked down to the Sand Castles. I haven't been to see the Sand Castles since I was a little girl, in fact the only reason I remember it is because there is a picture of my dad and I standing by one... and for some reason, for years I thought he and I built it ourselves!

After that we drove to Tricia's family Cabin and had lunch at the local diner! The cabin is on a huge property with lots of trails, so after lunch we all went for a walk. I put Baboo in the sling, and Uncle Glen had Kiana in her carrier. After we had walked a little ways we heard something in the bushes which sounded like it was running/bounding at us! We all turned around on the spot and started walking briskly back towards the cabin!

On the ride home, Asher slept most of the way, again we stopped in Duncan for his dinner and while we were there we checked out the Superstore and picked up a few outfits for the little guy! We are frequent superstore shoppers, since it is the grocery store closest to our place, they have such good prices and cute baby clothes! Therefore walking into the Duncan Superstore was like a flash back to what our Superstore used to look like. The layout was the same as ours used to be a few years ago, they had no self checkout, and they still had plastic bags! It was pretty funny...to us anyways!

We stopped and Grandma and Grandpa P's on the way home since they were Abbisitting for the day and found out that Abbi had been whining for us all day, which is strange because normally she LOVES her Grandma and Grandpa's place... my guess is that she just wanted to come to the beach with us!!!

Here are a few pics of the sand castles:

And Asher yawning in the buggy during the walk around the sand castles...

Wordless Wednesday - Daddys and their babies

Newborn Photoshoot

Last week our friend Krysta came by and snapped a few photos of Asher! She sent the pictures to us last night and are so thrilled with how great they turned out.... here are just a few of the favs!

Happy 50th Birthday Grumpy!!

This is my favorite picture of Asher and his Grandpa so far, it is also the first picture of my dad as a Grandpa!

Weekend Fun!

This weekend was busy busy busy!

On Saturday we had some running around to do in the morning, including buying MORE diapers. And that night Daddy was supposed to race, except his car had an oil pump issue so he wasn't able to go out.

On Sunday we had Rob and Ali's wedding ceremony to attend at 12, then we had to jet out to mechosin for a family reunion with my Grumpy's side of the family at 2pm, and back for the Reception at 4pm! It was a busy day, but it was so nice to see everyone!

Monday was a bit more relaxed, Steve, Cathy and Cayla came over to meet Asher in the morning, and then in the afternoon we took Asher around in the stroller got some groceries etc. When we got home, Asher had some tummy time... and I couldn't believe it but the little man rolled from him tummy to his back... I didn't think he would be able to do that for quite some time, and of course that was the time I wasn't video taping him...! I can't wait to try it again this afternoon! Then we made a nice chicken dinner with scalloped potatoes and guess what people.... Asher slept through the whole dinner, and we both got to sit down at the table and eat the whole meal while it was hot! Can you believe it!

Then yesterday Krysta came and took some newborn pictures of Asher, can't wait to see them!

Here is a pic of Grumpy and Asher at the family Reunion:

The cousins at Rob and Ali's Wedding:

Daddy and Asher at the Reunion: