Spring Firsts

Many FIRSTS on this first day of SPRING!!!

• Ivo's first loose tooth FELL OUT - We're awaiting the Tooth Fairy tonight!!!


The first pic is Ivo with tooth this morning. The second is without tooth this afternoon!!!

• Burl had his first HAIRCUT - When he looked in the mirror, Burl said, "I look like someone else!!!"

The first three pics are Burl with all the hair he's ever grown - including dreds in the back. The last two are Burl with his new do!!!

We had a playdate with a classmate of Ivo's and Ryan's friend, wife and 8 year old came to visit. They confirmed that hottubs are AWESOME - which is what I've been saying for a couple weeks. And now we're going to get one!!!

YAY!!!

The weather is changing - it's feeling Springy. There's melt and dead grass and even some intrepid green things poking up through the muck. Exciting!!! This has been a very hard winter - mostly because of the incessant viral attacks on Ivo and Burl. Also, the obscene amount of snow. Ryan and Gail hiked into the camp yesterday - over a meter of snow... but looking good!!!

We skyped with Mike, Jenny, Maddie, precious little Nolan and Mom - how fun! We are planning to invade their space next winter - that'll ease the winter suicidal tendencies:) So exciting:)

Burl has invented a new super hero - Gliderboy!!!

I'm starting week 8 of a 9 week semester. So far I've written 3 papers - one more to go - the final. Then taxes. Then HOTTUB!!!

This week, I'm going to a conference in Fredericton - it was great last year - and I expect this year to be even better - especially cuz I'll get to hang out with Lindsay at least 2 nights:

It's so good to have good news in the midst of the horrors occurring on this crappy planet... Japan earthquake, tsunami and, yes, multiple nuclear meltdown which worries me that I'll soon be unwittingly feeding my kids radioactive food - maybe food-labeling will improve? Sure, why not... And the start of another unwinnable, never-ending war - this time in Lybia. What about Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and the rest of the Middle East kleptocratic dictators...

HOTTUB