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: