Ballet

Another session is over.  We love Miss Andrea, and the girls love ballet.  I had fun taking some pictures.  I finally remembered to make a thank you card for her - which she very much apprecicated.  (Who doesn't love being appreciated?!)  I think in January I'm going to put Alice in the same class as Kate.  I hope it works out well for Alice, she has improved so much and I think she's ready to move up from the toddler class.  It will be fun for me because it will only be a half an hour that we go up to the community centre for!  But I'm getting ahead of myself.  Here are a few fun pics of ballet class tonight, complete with a few of Fiona, enjoying herself.
Alice's class

Kate's Class

 

Thank you Miss Andrea!

Happy Birthday Moustache Man!

It is Andrew's birthday on Friday, but tonight was the night we got together to celebrate.  Andrew participated in the movember campaign at work.  He came to Mom and Dad's with the stache so we could see it and enjoy it in person.  So, we did!  It was pretty awesome and awful all at once.  We took some fun pics and then he went to shave - thank goodness!

And then it was time to come clean!

Rayna had some training at work and showed up a little late.  Andrew had already shaved by the time Rayna got there.  It was really cute when an hour or so after she got there she noticed that Andrew had shaved! 

The girls love playing with Andrew and Rayna so much.  There are always lots of giggles when we get together.  Happy Birthday Andrew!  You're into your thirties and it's looking good on you!  Happy 33rd!

The ROM

Teacher day at the ROM, what could be better?  Sharing teacher day with the Lim-Andersons that's what!  (And getting to meet sweet Hazel!) When I checked in at the desk and I was asked about the last time I brought a class on a trip to the ROM, I must say, I felt a little guilty... I have gone on field trips to the ROM, but ten years ago?!  Heck, I'm still on leave, but I have the all important OCT card, so I'm in.  We only had to pay for Kate, and we had $4 off her admission, which meant we paid a total of $11 for all of us to go to the ROM - AWESOME!

Once we got our tickets and went in we had a fun surprise - Discovery Corners.  These are theme days geared at entertaining families.  There were costumes, art activities, live birds, snakes - it was great.  All of this was in the area on the main floor just beyond the entrance in Samuel Hall.

Then we were off to the bat cave - I think this is Holden's favourite.  It is not however Alice's favourite!  Poor thing ran screaming from the bat cave at least once, maybe twice.  The kids all had lots of fun playing, touching, exploring, reading... the kids area at the ROM is awesome.

Then it was dinosaur time.  Alice has been doing dinosaur themed stuff at pre-school, so she was pretty excited to see the dinosaurs today.  Fiona thought the rope barriers were a joke, and Kate loved talking to the museum staff.

Emily wanted to go to Egypt and see some Mummies.  So we did.  I must say, I've never been all that keen on ancient Egypt, but listening to Emily explain things to the kids, I was intrigued. 

By this point we were all done, so we made our ways to our cars and we drove to Emily and Jinx's place.  We had hot dogs and hamburgers and the kids played.  Emily took some pictures, we laughed and generally enjoyed ourselves.  Good friends are such a blessing in life.  Such a blessing.