Miz V and Grandma L

This is just a very nice picture of Miz V with Grandma L. We've been out to visit Fergus a lot this month what with the municipal strike, and Miz V has been really loving the extra grandparent time.

Pocky and Paddling

This weekend we took the canoe out for V's first big ride. We went across the channel to Toronto Island and brought some sushi picnic. The island is usually swamped with visitors and tourists, but the municipal strike has frozen the ferries, so it was eerily deserted, and beautiful.
Miz V had a nap on the way over, at my feet in the bow, and snoozed nicely until we hit some waves and the water broke right over her head! Soaked and mad as a wet cat, she let me know in no uncertain terms that this was not a welcome wake-up call. Once she awoke, she enjoyed the ride, but it will take awhile to teach her to sit down in the boat, as she really wants to stand up to see better. We realized that we had not brought her a change of clothes, and so I put her in M's socks and spare t-shirt, which lacked in fit and style, but had the principal advantage of being dry. Anyway, the great outdoor adventures continue!

V organizes her books

Miz V decided to take all her books out of her book basket and arrange them on the table for deeper consideration. There have been a few reading leaps lately - she's started to bring books as requests, and to demand the same book be read three or four times consecutively.

Lazy Bones

Sleeping beauties, huh? Note the time. We are lazy, lazy ladies.