It’s been a pretty busy month overall. We had a great time with our Seoul-Mates playgroup at an indoor playground in Mississauga. There were quite a few families there and the kids had such a great time as there were different rooms with different things to do. Alex loved looking at the different animals in one area, and he also loved playing with the balls and cars. His favourite thing, by far, was discovered just as we were leaving. We were one of the last families to head out and as we were leaving, we went through one room that has some slides and climbers. Alex went up and down a smaller slide a few times, and then he saw the big one in the corner. It was one of those big plastic slides that curves around and you have to walk up a walkway to get up high enough to climb in. I wasn’t sure how Alex would like it as he’d have to go down on his own, and he’d never been in such a big slide before... but he LOVED it! He must have gone up that ramp and down that slide about 20 times, and because it was some type of plastic, it obviously had some type of build up of static electricity as Alex’s hair would stand up on end as he came down the slide, and the second he climbed off the slide to run up the ramp again, his hair would settle down, only to stick right up again on the next slide down. Chris and I had such fun watching him, and we got a few cute pics of him while he was having such a great time.
We also went to a birthday party for the daughter of friends of ours. Alex had a wonderful time there playing with some of the kids, and we loved seeing our friends’ daughter turn one.
Easter was also quite fun, even though our plans were changed at the last minute. We had Chris’ sister, Karen and her family over for lunch on Good Friday and we had such an amazing visit. Our nieces, Amanda and Sarah, were so good with Alex and he just loved following them around and playing with them. They stayed for a few hours and it was so nice to get a chance to visit with them and get caught up.
The next day was pretty quiet, but at the last minute we ended up deciding to go into Toronto overnight to see Kathy and her family. We stayed overnight and got to do an Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday morning. Our nieces, Jennifer and Sarah, helped Alex look for treats and toys left by the Easter Bunny and all three of them had a great time. Alex caught on surprisingly quickly and he enjoyed the few small treats we let him have.
Later in the day we went to the Easter Parade in the Beaches with some friends, and the family also came to enjoy the parade. I’m not sure Alex understood what was going on, but he certainly loved the horses the mounted police were riding, as well as all of the ambulances, fire trucks and police cars that were in the parade. I guess having the Chief of Police as one of the parade dignitaries really pays off in getting some fancy (and loud) vehicles into the parade.
I think Chris’ highlight of the past month was getting a chance to use our new lawnmower on our lawn. Our old one (bought second hand for next to nothing when we moved to Cambridge) had died last September, and so our lawn was a mess this Spring because we hadn’t been able to mow it for the last bit of growth before the cold weather hit. I bought one at a garage sale that looked like a good deal, and Chris was so thrilled with it. He said he hadn’t realized how bad our old one was until he used one that was newer and more powerful. While this was exciting for Chris, I cannot even begin to express how utterly thrilling the lawnmower is for Alex. Not only does it have wheels (anything with wheels is good in Alex’s opinion), but it makes noise! He would tell us over and over (and over and over) that he wanted to go outside for the lawnmower. I think Chris mowed the grass three times the first week, partly because he was having fun, but also because Alex was just spellbound by this new bit of machinery.
We ended up buying Alex his own little lawnmower, which he now pushes around the lawn while Chris mows the grass. He was even so excited about it that Chris heard Alex rouse up from a dead sleep one night, call out “push lawnmower” and then he went right back to snoring!
For us parents, it’s also been a busy time. I’ve been busy with work for different clients, and Chris has been busy promoting a new product introduced earlier this year by his employer. He was also out in Banff all this past week for a sales meeting, so I was flying solo with Alex for five full, long, tiring (but fun) days. In addition to my normal work for clients, I’ve also signed up to be a consultant for a scrapbooking and stamping company, and I’m so excited to be doing a bit of work in an industry that I enjoy personally, and also working for a company that has products that I simply love.
I’ll close this with our biggest bit of news in the past month. We’d applied for Alex’s citizenship in March and we’d been told it could take 6-8 months to be completed (or longer if you believed what the citizenship website tells you), but we were thrilled to learn that Alex officially became a Canadian citizen on April 20th! We’re now waiting for his citizenship certificate, but it goes without saying that Canada Day will be a big deal in our household this year.
I’ve put up a new photo album with some pictures from the last month, including some from Easter and our Seoul-Mates gathering earlier in the month.
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