Watch us grow!
It’s Auntie Eleen’s birthday so we offered to take Zoe and Maya for the afternoon. It later turned out to be a big kid party at Uncle Ian’s house with Dada and Uncle Ian doing all the cooking.
The big girls did some origami and the littles played Street Fighter.
After dinner, all the kids joined in to play Just Dance on the Nintendo Switch.
At school, Peanut helped make smoothies with his classmates.
After Friday evening swim lessons, the kids chose pho for dinner.
We’re in the middle of “make-up weekend” and the kids need some motivation to keep up. We had regular swim lessons last night, kung fu this morning, and one swim make-up right after.
Tomorrow is another morning of kung fu and then another swim make-up. This is what we have to do when we go out of town and miss lessons!!
It’s Friday night, so we are at Aquatech for lessons and then Spin for pizza afterward.
The kids got haircuts today!
The best part is getting the lollipop at the end!
In the afternoon, we met up with Auntie Amy, Uncle Jay, Auntie Elaine, Uncle Mitchell, and Auntie Laurie for some raw oysters, crab, clams, and a bunch of other seafood goodies.
Janie ate at least a dozen oysters on her own and loved it.
Peanut slept through most of our meal, woke up to eat some crab, and then watched some Paw Patrol.
We found another place that serves waffles for breakfast! Yum!!
This morning, the kids were so happy to see all the snow in front of Amelia and Ellie’s house. They had a little bit of time to play before we piled into the minivan for a ride up to Squamish to ride the Seat to Sky Gondola.
The gondola took us up the mountain and Peanut was so excited.
At the top, there was a suspension bridge and other places to explore.
Janie drew initials in the snow and asked Mama to take a picture.
They also went down the tubing hill together and Janie kept her eyes closed the whole time.
Peanut was not tall enough to ride so he went to the store for a Canadian maple syrup treat.
He also finished off the timbits before the kids came back. He’s become a BIG FAN of timbits on this trip.
On the drive back down the mountain, the girls fell asleep in the back. Poor Janie became a pillow for Ellie and Amelia.
Janie has the next week off for “Ski Week” so we decided to book a trip up to Vancouver to do some snowboarding and to hang out with family. We all got up early and caught a bus to the airport for our flight to Seattle. The kids were good sports and we had enough time to eat breakfast at the airport before boarding.
The kids enjoyed time of their iPads and we had a smooth flight.
The next leg of the trip was to pick up our rental car in Seattle and drive 2.5 hours to Surrey, which is only 15 minutes from the USA/Canada border.
When we arrived, Auntie Amy had a spread of food prepared for us, including fresh oysters and uni!
Once Amelia and Ellie came home from school, the fun really started!
Auntie Stephanie traveled back to California with her family this weekend! The kids got to hang out with Sophie, Avia, Vivian, Henry, and Hudson just like old times! We also met Vivian’s little brother Ethan for the first time.
They played “Just Dance” on our Nintendo Switch with the dads while Mommy got caught up with her old friends from Children’s Hospital.
