R wasn’t so thrilled at her last skating lesson.  Another mom gave me some advice, that R should practice wearing her skates at home.  And sure enough, she practiced getting up by herself, and walking slowly.  By the end she was dancing around on the skates.  I think it really boosted her confidence.  Here’s hoping the practice pays off on Sunday.

Yup, that’s my daughter.  There is a “Beauty Salon” set up at school.   R absolutely loves playing there.   There are lots of clips, combs, brushes, hairsprau, lotions, curlers, hairdryers, curling irons, you name it, oh and of course lots of wigs.   This was definately the funniest on her.

R had her first skating lesson today.  She was excited to be going.   The instructor came over to the boards, and we sent R out.  The assistant skated with her between her legs over a little ways in.  She worked with R for the first while showing her how to get up from the ice.   R was somewhat sucessful at this, especially when the assistant held her first skate still.   The whole class was pretty funny looking, these 10 kids wriggling like little worms on the ice.   They were pretty good about wriggling around, scooching on their butts, and crawling on their knees.   The instructor brought out toys which seemed to really motivate R to move around.   The last few minutes she worked again with the head instructor and got to standing by herself, un-assisted.   For some reason this threw her, and she started crying.   After the lesson we told her how proud we were of her, and how great she did standing on her own.  She is now looking forward to next week.  We should really all go together to a family skate, but that means that both daddy and I need to get skates.

Well R decided not to nap today…She and I were having a rough go.   What do you do?? Call a friend!  Neighbour boy B came over.   R and he played for quite a while, and I decided to bake a cake.  I very quickly acquired 2 little helpers.   The kids had a great time, and truth be told the kitchen only got a bit of flour all over it.  I added some orange coloured frosting at the end, and threw some candy decorations on and presto, we had a pumpkin cake.   R really liked the process, not so much the cake.  Oh well.

We had a lovely thanksgiving weekend.  One night we had our delightful neighbours over for a cheese fondue.  We adults had a nice time, and R was just beside herself with happiness that her dear friend B was over. 

The next night we had a yummy dinner of Vereniki (Perogies) that Oma made.  My parents were over too.  It was great to see them all at once.

I finally got some time to poke around the garden with my macro lens.  These are some of the pictures I got.  It just reminded me how much I’ve neglected my garden this year.  It seems however that the garden doesn’t really need my interfearance, as there only a few weeds.  Of course as I look at it I’d like to move a bunch of things around, but hey that might just not happen until next year.

What a memorable day!! When I picked R up from ECEC, she brought home a coloured picture of a jack-in-the-box.  That wasn’t so memorable, but the top part of the page was, she had written the first 4 letters of her name!!  Wow.  I was so impressed, and she kept insisting she had help, meaning the techer’s aid had written in the last 3 letters.  

So this afternoon as we were playing in the front yard, I encouraged her to spell her whole name, and the result is in the picture.  Not bad!  Ok, well she ran out of interest with the last 2 letters, but man 7 letters is a long name for this age!   We are so proud!

We had a great time at the Medieval faire.   It’s held once a year at Waterloo park.   It was a chilly day.  We walked around for a while, and comtemplated the purchase of a ‘pickle on a stick’.   We decided that we really didn’t want to comitt to a pickle of that size unless we knew it was a tasty garlic one.   We played some games, wandered through the maze and watched the tournament.   Afterwards we met up with the Queen of Hearts, who held R for a picture.   Check out more pictures here.