Two Thumbs Up and An Awesome!

Grace had her first swimming lesson ever yesterday evening! She loved it! She told me it was "Awesome" while she held two thumbs up. It was so cute to see her so enthusiastic. Fiona on the other hand, was not so impressed. She wanted to go in the pool and was not allowed. So, we hung out watching the lesson together, while Fiona wore a diaper and a t-shirt and holding a swimmer in her hand. She refused to put her jumper dress back on and kept trying to sneak her diaper off. Even after the lessons, she kept holding onto the swimmer. We went to the spider park after lessons and she was still holding it.

At the "Spider" park, we met up with our friends Joey and Gianna. We played with them for a while and it was a great opportunity to get some more pics of the kids. Gianna is one year older than Grace and Joey is one year younger. They get along great. You will also see from the photos, why we call it the spider park: it's a pyramid of poles with and fun configuration or ropes webbed together for kids to climb. Our kids love it!

Mary Sells Kingston

Clay and I were relieved after only two days on the market, our house sold. We had to wait almost another week before the conditions were removed, but it is official. It is sold. We used a real estate agent by the name of Mary Murphy. She was fabulous. She was super easy to talk to but very business oriented. We would recommend her to anyone. That's exactly what we did, too. She was also Leslie and Ludger Hacault's agent too. They are moving to Kingston, just as we are leaving it, which is very disappointing. It would have been nice to live in the same city as them again.

So, what exactly is going on with us? Clay finished up the academic year on Friday and is administering the first of his two exams to his students this morning. His work load will greatly decrease as of Thursday this week. The boys are still doing music lessons and beavers and are now doing swimming lessons too. They will start baseball a little later. Grace is still loving her music lessons and is also taking swimming lessons. We are thinking of putting her in a session of gymnastics too. Fiona is on the sidelines watching.

The boys are doing great in school. Riley is doing very well on his spelling and math tests, while Brodie is learning a lot of Riley's stuff.

The girls just got hair cuts. Grace's hair was down to her lower back but was quite tangled all the time. So, I got a friend to cut Grace's hair and she gave Fiona a cute chin line bob cut.

We are looking forward to our house hunting trip and will be leaving on 5 May, while Clay's parents watch over the kids. Clay's mom is going to stay a little longer and be around for Riley's 7th birthday. Riley is so excited about that. We are also planning on going on a small trip to Niagara Falls, Great Wolf Lodge, with the Eberts family at the end of May. Clay heads off to Scotland to present his research and visit Mark and Laura around the 12th June. When he gets back, we will be moving 8 days later. So, life is busy for us as usual, but at least, we don't have to keep the house in pristine condition anymore.

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend breezed right by us this year. We spent most of it preparing to sell our house as we listed it on Tuesday right after Easter Monday. But, we managed to get some quality Easter events in with the kids. We did an Easter craft and decorated eggs. On Sunday, we had an Easter basket hunt, first thing in the morning! The kids were chowing down chocolate before breakfast. We went to church with our Easter basket and had a nice Easter meal followed by an Easter Egg hunt. Fiona pretty much ate all her chocolate, throughout the day, without us even knowing. One time, Clay found her sitting on her change table, in the closet with the doors closed and her face smeared with chocolate and her mouth stuffed with it. Here are some of the photos around that Easter weekend. Check out the black eye and big gap in Brodie's mouth. He looked like such a bruiser for a while.