Steveston Waterpark

Today we decided to go visit the waterpark in Steveston, its a really nice park that Mareesa and Ronin loved!! Mareesa's not usually into going into the water at the parks where we go but she has sooo much fun when we go here. We've been there 3 times now and I don't even mind driving out there to see them have fun. Ronin has been standing on his own now for a couple of weeks and he loves it too!! I've caught him standing there in front of the water sprays just giggling!! Too bad the summer is almost over, I guess we'll have to wait for next summer to enjoy it again, only because the weather hasn't been the greatest this past month......

Mareesa's Dance Class

She was able to get them all stretching together!!

The five little ballerinas.....all in order..sort of......

Mareesa's best friend Ryleigh

The ballerinas doing a little dance together!!

Mareesa has been taking a creative dance class for 2s... since the first week of July, she has only 1 class left on wednesday. There are 4 other 2 year olds in her class and they are soo cute to watch. They got a new instructor this week and I have to say she was much better than the one before, the new girl was able to keep the girls attention on her and not have then all over the place. The past classes have been the longest 30 minutes of my dayssssss, but they actually had a fun and productive class, was also fun for the mommies to watch!!

Bouncy Castle Fun Day!!

Last friday my friend Susie hosted a afternoon playdate in her backyard, she rented a bouncy castle and invited some moms and their kidlets. We made it a potluck lunch as well, everyone brought some yummy foodies and we had lots of fun!! It was such a success she wants to do it again, there were a few moms that couldn't make it because of holidays and stuff, but hopefully the next one will be as successful.

Mareesa was so silly that day, for some reason she wouldn't go down the slide, I physically had to put her on the top of the slide so that she could see that she was missing out, it's funny because at the park thats all she does, is go up and down the slide for hours...Finally she got into it and maybe she was just being shy, but as soon as most of the kids left she wouldn't get off of it. I'm glad that she had lots of fun with all her friends!!


When she returned the bouncy castle she asked the people where they bought it from and they said Canadian Tire, so she called some stores and was lucky to have found the last one in the lower mainland at the Langley location. Now she owns it and shes going to do the same thing and rent it out for $100. a day. I think I'm going to rent it for Ronin's 1st birthday party, hopefully the weather will still be nice by mid September.

First Step!!

Ronin took his first step this morning all by himself!! YaaaaaaY, and he just happens to be 11months old today too!! Way to go Ronin!! For the past few days I've caught him standing on his own, so it was only a matter of time before he took a step, I'm so glad it happened before I went back to work, now we have to work on a few more at a time!! No pressure baby boy!!

08.08.08

I'm sitting here watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, and remembering when my brother was walking amongst all the canadian athletes 4 years ago in Athens, he was on the baseball team, and it was so exciting seeing him walking there with all the athletes!! It just gave me chills watching all these countries, what a thrill!!

I know its been one month exactly since my last entry, sorry to all my stalkers.......

Not too much has happened around here, we were really lucky to have had such nice weather, so we took full advantage and spent many a days at the waterpark and in the backyard. Mareesa had a one week soccer camp which she loved, her little friend Ryleigh was in it so they ran and chased eachother around the field. She also started creative dance, which is really hard for me because it starts at 9am and she usually sleeps till then, so I have to drag her out of bed and bribe her just to get her there, I hope she'll be better when its school time or i'll be out of luck, not looking forward to that at all!!!!!! Dance class is cute but Mareesa and the other little girls get side tracted very easily which makes it difficult for the instructor, at least its only for half an our. It runs until the end of this month and thats it for her this summer. She'll have to do with just playdates and waterparks.

My baby boy Ronin, he's growing so fast, he's crawling all over the place and he's about ready to start walking I'm sure. He is so cute and I'm hoping that he'll start walking before I go back to work Sept.22, to be exact, which I am dreading more and more each day.......

We spent a week and a half with Kal's parents before they were off again for about 5 months on their European tour, it was nice for the kids to spend that time with them, they travel soo much and we don't want them to miss out in seeing the kids when they are home. We went for a day trip to the states and went shopping at the Burlington Outlets and Bellis Fair mall, Ronin got a new wardrobe for when he's a little bigger, Mareesa has enough clothes right now so the next trip will be for her new wardrobe. We shopped at Carters, that store is awesome for bargains. The kids were really good, seeing that we were putting them in their car seats to their stroller a few times in when we were in the mall we let them have some fun playing around.

Last friday I took the kidlets to Captain Kids fun centre, it was our first time there, I'm not too keen on taking Mareesa and Ronin to places like that without Kal, but we did it, Mareesa had a blast, she loved the climbing and the slides, which I did go down with her, I was really scared, it was so steep, but Mareesa had no fear, there was this cute little boy trying to talk me into going down the slide, which we finally did!! We met with Ryleigh and Mac, Mareesa and Ronin's little friends, they had soo much fun, I guess we'll be going back, maybe next time Kal will be there to enjoy in the fun!!