Summer Time!

Yippee! School is out and summer can really begin. The girls began their day with a bit of television, a bismarck for breakfast, and a long walk in the dog park that exhausted Rustle. Then it was play, play, play!

Hooray for summer!

Last Day of Kindergarten

Alison reached a milestone today - her very last day of kindergarten. From now on the whole day will be taken up by school. Exciting, but a little sad, too.

Especially for Rustle. He likes the kindergarten bus.

Dress Up Time

For a puppy living with two little girls, Rustle has been quite fortunate to have escaped frilly dresses and other such aspects of playing dress up.

Until now.

Alison insisted Rustle try on her hat.

Rustle's reluctance and general uncooperativeness throughout the exercise just may spare him from ever enduring this again.

Rustle's Mom takes a trip

The blogger herself took a childless, puppyless trip to Toronto, Niagara, and Barrie for Nana's surprise 60th birthday party. It was very fun being a surprise!
Plus, I got to meet up with baby Emma,

baby Benjamin,

and the fabulous nephews, Lucas, Jack, and Sam.

It was a great trip!

Tunnel Vision

Third trip from the tooth fairy

Sarah Skating

Sarah's skating lessons ended last month, so this is a bit old, but here is a video of her doing a neat little trick. Enjoy.

Talent Show

Sarah's classroom talent show this afternoon included a tap dancer, a juggler, and a comedian. There were also a few singing performances, including one by our girl, Sarah.

If you've got a couple of minutes you can download a short video of her singing here. Megaupload is a free, no registration required service, but you have some waiting to do and they put a pop-up ad over the button for downloading. Click it off and enjoy!

Farm Girl

Ah, the sights, sounds and smells of a kindergarten farm trip. Alison's class got to pet lambs, piglets, and kids! Her favourite part was the bunnies. Either that or the playground.


Alison pet a little lamb,







Alison and the kids.

Did we mention the smells?

Happy Mother's Day

We had a lovely mom's day today, from teaching the girls to make breakfast, taking the dog to the park, and roller skating along the river. It was sunny and warm and we had Indian food on the deck. What a great day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the other moms out there. Here is our annual Mother's Day shot - I think I may be showing my age, or my inability to apply sunscreen.