A Trip to the Civilization Museum

Mama and BigE hit the Civilization Museum this week with some of Mama's co-workers.









Light on the text? Well bug Mama to fill more in!

First Day back at the Big Daycare

Today BigE made the move back across the street to the big, old, daycare building. It's been a bit of a tough move for BigE. His 'visits' across the street have been rough. There were two friend who've already made the jump across the street.

After some whining and crying we parked on the big daycare side of the street. BigE was walking in an angle towards the old, smaller daycare. There was definitely disappointment when I broke the news we wouldn't be crossing the street. Once we got inside things got a little better.

We got a little lucky today. Little Ray's Reptiles was coming in a hour. BigE's friends from the small daycare came across to see the reptiles.

There was little snakes, big snakes, and a alligator. The alligator had it's mouth taped because "he could bite the little kids fingers". He apparently had lost a toe to another alligator. Jeeze, and you think you job is bad! BigE didn't want to touch any of the animals. So he learned the hand signal for that very quickly. It was making an X with your arms.

His favorite animal was the little snakes. But we don't know what they eat. Which was our discussion on the way home. Guess we'll have to look that one up.

Canada Day Party

This year's Canada Day party was a success. We had a turn out of about twenty. And we didn't even advertise free booze. Maybe the trick to parties is to stop inviting people who don't show. Might be something to that.

We got to meet baby Claire. Mama had to be tranquilized to get her to release the baby.

BigE had most of his buddies over: N from daycare, Monkey from the neighborhood, and Neighbour G. The day was finished with races from the tent to the fence gate. About 70'. After a dozen of those the kids were pretty red in the face. Fortunately they were able to down a bunch of juice boxes to cool off.

After all that the only picture that got taken was the tBF.ca Family Shot




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The New Bike

Well after much thought BigE picked up a new bike today. He had a 10" from Auntie Karen. While that bike had served him well since Christmas he was getting a little big. So it was off to a 12" or 14". I must admit I had hoped to get to a 14" but BigE wanted something he was comfortable with. So here is the blue and yellow bike!



I had him on a 14" at Canadian Tire a couple weeks ago but he really didn't like the ride. He wasn't used to the higher seat and bar so getting off and on was more difficult.

So, today with Mama it was a 12" bike. It rained most of the afternoon and evening so it wasn't till late we got to have a ride. We did three

BigE: Let's ride the block around

My little french canadian boy.

Strawberry Jam

Well after our adventure picking strawberries we're trying to make strawberry jam. Here's a strawberry jam recipe.

We ended up following the directions on the pectin box we picked up at the grocery store. Which was fairly similar except there was no boiling of the jar after filling it.

However things got interesting as we got near bottling. Those lids we picked up? Yeah too big. It's 9:50 and the grocery store closes in 10 minutes. Zip off we go to try and get smaller ones. I'm looking at the selection and realize that the big lids we bought are the only size they carry. Oh well it looks like I can buy some jars to fit those lids. They're 1 litre but what the heck. The alternatives are 1.5 litre jars, that's a lot of jam, and some tiny tubby jars, maybe 200ml that are pricey.

I don't want to throw away all of those strawberries. Or eat them tonight. So for $7.50 I'll pickup a dozen 1 litre jars. We can start bottling everything under the sun I figure. After waiting for a round man to empty his cart at the grocery store I discover my jars are actually $12. After all that time. Screw it I get them anyway.

I get home to see that the Jam has been put in our small lidless containers. And has now set. I was just about ready to drop kick the dam box of bottles out the door. Then Mama reminds me that we'll just have to do the cold method. That means the jars have to stay in the freezer. We'll still have the 6 months to use them. It'll just be freezer life instead of shelf life.

Current status: I hate bottling jam! I love Jam! The dichotomy pains me.

Picking Strawberries

Well in keeping with recent fashion, tBF.ca has managed to go on another outing and take no pictures. There's a lot of I behind the WE of tBF.ca.

Anyways we headed out on the holiday Monday to pick some strawberries. The location was picked by the WB family. They managed to take a few photos of their adventure. Head on over to Berry Pickin if you want a picture of some other kid running around the berry patch. If I had photoshop maybe I could doctor that one up. Hmmm...

However the Bussey Family excelled at picking strawberries. We were aided by the fact that our kids weren't gorging on the strawberries. Then again BigE wasn't picking or eating many.

After filling up three gallons we were stucking waiting for the WB's to fill two gallons. So while we waited for the WB gang to finish we sat down and started snacking. This is when BigE finally took to the strawberries. As long as they looked good. Anything without a top or mushie ... No Way! Textures are important to BigE.

All in all a nice morning out in the sun. Not too hot and just windy enough to keep the flies at bay.

Happy Canada Day!

tBF.ca wishes you all a happy 140th Canada Day!

The Magic Slushie

We have a new strip mall around the corner from our place. It's been under development for over a year. Low and behold we now have a medial plaza, coffee shop, vet and Mac's.

What's a Mac's? Well imagine a real world Kwik-E-Mart. Wall to Wall Junk food. There is one tiny shelf that contains a couple bottle of tylenol, buns, and not completely sugar based cookies. Everything else ... well sugar, fructose, sucrose, sugarose and so on.

There's even a wall of slushie choices. Of the top of my head: Coke, Minute Maid orange, Mango WTF, Orange WTF, Barq's cream soda, Blue raspberry, and grape. And I know I have forgotten a couple too.

After dinner last night we headed over. Along the way BigE wasn't really even paying attention to where we were going. He even walked by the door completely. I don't think that will happen ever again.

After a small orange slushie (read still big) somebody had a new favorite treat. BigE still didn't rush it down. He worked on it for over an hour. But it was all gone after the hour.

As we were heading to bed somebody wanted to know if after his nappy could we go back to the store to get another treat.

Why I wake up we will go to the store and get a special treat okay?

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