So far February has not been the best of months for our little family and Bruce's family. I won't go into detail but there has been a lot of stress and phone calls back and forth for the last couple of weeks. Tomorrow we will be driving up to Kamloops to spend the long weekend with Bruce's family and I think it will be good to be together instead of Bruce and I feeling like we are always playing catch up with everything that is going on.
There were however, some good things that have happened this week. I finally got the courage to bring Eli into a salon to get his hair cut. In the past his Auntie Alyssa has cut his hair so we have had no problems but there were a whole lot of tears and screams this time! Thank goodness we were the only ones in the salon because I was pretty embarrassed. I'm hoping that next time it will be a little bit easier but I don't think I can put it off for as long, he was beginning to look a little unkempt.
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| Before |
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| After- so grown up and handsome. |
Today Bruce had a day off so we decided to explore Beaver Lake in Stanley Park. That's where the "after" picture was taken. We have made it a new goal to get outside and explore something new every Friday no matter the weather. Luckily, today it wasn't too cold and the sun even peaked through the clouds a couple of times. Eli absolutely loves being outside and has that inexhaustible energy that only toddlers seems to possess so he had a great time. There were ducks everywhere and he was amazed by all of them. Several times he tried to step into the water to go after them but Bruce and I were never out of reach. I am still getting used to how green everything is here even in the middle of winter. I am so used to the bare trees of Alberta not the moss covered ones here but they are beautiful. I can't wait to go back to Beaver Lake in the summer when all the flowers will be in bloom and maybe even catch a glimpse of the beavers that live there.
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| Ducks! |
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| The Lake- complete with beaver dam |
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| Running to give Daddy a hug. |
