Luke's E-mail

Beth is away this week and Luke e-mailed her:

i did not gat anething today i jast waht you to no theat i am being good how is grace doing good or not?
love luke

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Beth wrote:

Hi Luke,

How are you? Did you have swimming today?

How was school today?Any GREATS or WARNINGS?

Edmonton is good. It is only 2:24 here bu 4:24 there.

How are your Webkinz?

I hope you are being good for Dad.

Grace is good but very snotty.

Love Mom

Random photos

1. My brother is so funny...
2. Halloween mail!
3. More mail!
4. I love blueberries!
5. Sleeping on the kitchen floor. H1N1 or a tired Grade 1 boy? (Not H1N1...we got the vaccine...Luke was just worn out with a mild fever on a Friday night)

Luke loves singing!

Luke has really enjoyed his music classes at school this year. Every day he is singing a new song. Unfortunately, I found out that he didn't participate in these lessons until recently but I think he is over that now. He was happy to have me tape a couple of his songs last night.

Halloween

We spent Halloween in Beaconsfield, Quebec. The kids went trick-or-treating in Mema's neighbourhood and collected quite a bit of loot considering the houses are much farther apart than in Toronto!

It looks like all the kids followed the red, black and white dress code (Tom snuck in some yellow). Liam did a magic show at school and apparently it was a great success.

Remembering Mema 1926 - 2009

1. Mema's 80th Birthday, May 2006
2. When we visited this past August, just after 420 Bishop Street was sold
3. Tim and Anna's wedding (2003). I don't have any digital photos of our wedding!

I'm not going to write too much right now or I'll just start crying. Mema had a wonderful life and wonderful family. Ten great-grandchildren - that says it all! I am so happy Mema got to meet Grace and the boys.

Playing in the Garden

Grace's Baptism

Grace was baptized today in a lovely service by Uncle Dan at St. Basil's Church. Grace's proud godparents are Dan's cousin Patricia O'Callaghan and her son Dan. When I see these pictures of Grace and her Dad I have these flashes way into the future...white dress and all. Has anyone watched the new show FlashForward?

Outside pictures

We did manage to spend some time outside at the cottage. Here we have pictures of each of the kids with Buck Lake providing a scenic back drop. I've also included a picture of Liam from Thanksgiving 2002. My how he's changed in seven years.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So thankful for both our families, good health, delicious food, a cozy home, a wonderful husband and 3 beautiful children.

8 Months!

Grace is 8 months! (HELP! We need to stop the time...my little girl is growing too fast!) She's talking up a storm, enjoying lots of new foods, working on her top teeth and still trying to get her bum up to crawl. Grace is cuter than ever...even at 3 in the morning.

We were planning to go apple picking yesterday but it was too cold and rainy. I really wanted to take a photo of Grace in the pumpkin patch, but we'll have to settle for this photo on our porch with the pumpkin Luke brought home from his farm trip.

Aside from the weather yesterday, I really love this time of year - especially when the sun is out. There are so many little things to be thankful for: the cool morning walks, the leaves changing colour, hockey season and of course, pumpkin pie!