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Laura’s doll’s bakery got an upgrade with all new doll sized baking utensils including a mixer, tablet with recipes, and other supplies.  

   

Colin pulled out Scrabble Jr. to play. He was great at finding his letters. The only draw back was the 7 missing pieces. Time to clean up the toy room!

  

En route to the farmers’ market in Saturday morning Colin said, “I hope there’s a bouncy castle there.” He got his wish!  They had special activities for kids, including the bouncy castle and face painting.  Colin chose Batman and Laura chose a butterfly.  She was busy bouncing while C had his done, so I didn’t get a picture of her until we were back in the car.

   
   

Colin is learning about the “fur on Daddy’s chin”.  He was surprised to learn that ANY grown-up man can have a moustache or a beard.  I think he thought it was something that just happened, like eye colour or height.

He gave clear directions about what areas Cliff was to shave.  Cliff is a good sport. 

   

Laura had a great afternoon climbing with her friend. She even got to the top of the big wall!

  

Colin played with his friends today but then came down with a fever.  We’re hoping today is a good recovery day.  

 

Sorry for the delay getting pictures on the blog. We have slowly been integrating back into normal life. 
Everyone had a great time at camp. 

   

   
  

We are at summer Camp this week with C&D and family, so there won’t be many posts as we expect to take time to turn off while we’re here. Things are going well and we are having fun. Kids are happy and are off to camp in the morning with no issue.  We will update again next weekend. 

Colin was quite certain that there was no point resting his eyes, because he was Not Tired.  Despite having gotten up at 4:30 am.

  

Laura had her Jr swim team meet this week. She improved all her strokes from last year.  We are very proud. 

   
    
 

Laura helped choose all the items to go in a backpack for the United Way’s backpack/school supplies drive.  We were assigned a little boy and had to shop for everything in his list.  Last night was the drop-off party.

 First we wrote notes of encouragement to our student: 
Then we out the backpack, our notes, and a few other supplies into big plastic bags and dropped them in the bins.  

There was popcorn and ice cream, and a chance to see lots of activities that would be found in a typical United Way “Bright Beginnings” classroom.  Laura had fun checking out all the stations.