Well the end to summer doesn't get much better then spending a perfect week at Christina Lake with both of our parents. The weather more then cooperated providing us day after day of 90 degree sun soaking sunshine during the day and cooling off in the morning and evenings. We spent the mornings eating a late breakfast, the afternoons living off the dock swimming, boating, kayaking, fishing and the evenings eating a delicious dinner on the outside patio followed by a fire in the firepit on our beach. Owen had the best time jumping of the dock, swimming in his life jacket, tube riding, night swimming with his dad, catching minnows, playing dock baseball hitting the balls into the water and kayaking for the first time. Check out the video of Owen's mad kayaking skills, he picked it up like a pro! Papa and Grandma just left, and we miss them already. We had a great visit and look forward to the next one.
Owen started "gool" (preschool) this week and needless to say he loves it. I dropped him off on the first day and he immediately spotted the room with a million trains and their tracks. The room quickly filled up with 3 other boys all trying to strategically get their hands on the trains they wanted. I asked Owen for a kiss goodbye and he blew me a kiss. I said, "No way, you get up and give me a kiss goodbye!" He struggled with the fact that he had to get up and give his mom a kiss and possibly give up his space as train conductor at Union Station. But he did it by quickly running over to me, gave me a flyby kiss and hug and jumped back into his spot by the tracks still able to keep a hold of all the trains he started with. So it was a win win situation.
His teacher said that Owen is a very active boy and seems to be very happy, social and energetic. She had to laugh when the kids were given a bunch of buckets filled with water and paint brushes. They pretend to paint masterpieces on the outside of the building. With 18 kids in his class there was not enough paintbrushes for all the kids to start off. So Owen patiently waited for his turn to paint as he held onto the bucket of water he was given with all his might. The teacher eventually said, "OK no more water" and Owen quickly surveyed his surrounding areas and noticed a little girl with an empty bucket and paintbrush. He went up to her, using his top notch negotiating skills and said, "I don't think you need your paint brush anymore since you do not have any water, so can I have it?" The girl agreed and the teacher laughed, saying, "Wow what a negotiator!"
Owen also has been telling everyone he sees that he will be going to three "ghools", 1 ghool is Sunshine (the one he goes to), the 2nd ghool is the big school (the high school) and the 3rd ghool is the one that Aidan and Anson (his friends) go to which is kindergarten. Needless to say he will only be attending one ghool, I told him to hold tight a few years for the high school ghool, momma can't handle that right at this moment!
Hope you are all enjoying the final days of summer. Love you all!
