Dinner at Lanie and William's house

MV had a late nap which meant that SV and Babicka had to entertain themselves. Afterwards we headed over to Lanie and William's house for dinner. Most of the usual family were there for a nice Chinese dinner. Lots of fun stories were told and we all enjoyed the company. SV did take herself away to have some alone time and read a book. She does that at home as well sometimes just to have some private time.

Seeing the Oak Ridge crew

We went over to Jeremy and Madeline's house to catch up with all of the Oak Ridge crew. John, Maggie and Mike all met up there along with all of their kids. Uncle Richie also showed up fashionably late. SV and MV had heaps of fun playing with all of the other kids and the, dare we say it, 'adults'. As usual it was a good catch up because it fell back into conversations as if we saw each other only a few days ago rather than 3.5 years ago!

Visiting Auntie Beverly and her family

We had a chance to visit our friend Auntie Beverly and her family. It is very convenient because she lives just down the road from Grandma CeCe. We owe Auntie Beverly a big thank you for letting us borrow the car seat that MV used on this part of the trip. Since we last saw Beverly she and her husband had a lovely daughter who is just between SV and MV in age. SV enjoyed playing with her a little bit, especially once we got to the playground. Both SV and MV felt very comfortable straight away and had fun.

Lunch with Papi and making a friend

We met Papi at one of the neighbourhood places for lunch. The food was great and it was nice to have more time with Papi. After lunch we went back to Papi's house and SV met up with her new friend Natalie from across the street. They had an impromptu tea party on the lawn. Natalie tried to tame SV's hair as well but it proved to be a bit too wild. 

 

Fun at Grandama CeCe's house

Staying at Grandma CeCe's house has been lots of fun. MV enjoyed learning to eat and worked on her crawling. SV on the other hand was certainly taking advantage of all of the art supplies to create lots of work. She has been very busy drawing and painting all sorts of stuff including the solar system. Grandama CeCe's new kitchen is also proving to be very popular place since that's where we spent most of our time there.

Sledging fun

MV was not particularly impressed with sledging, in fact her face remained comically neutral the entire time. SV though was getting more and more into it and kept wanting to go a little bit higher up the hill each time.

MV's first snow experience

We took MV and SV to the snow for a bit of fun. They both got bundled up and were excited to try out the snow. MV had her big pink snow suit which suited her just fine. TV took SV on the sled but after having a bit of a fall it took Babicka to really get the sledging off to a good start.Once MV got dressed she also got into the action as all of us had a bit of fun.