Stuntwoman

So it is only fair if brother gets a post then sister needs one too! I love her serious concentration on the upside down book! Stuntwoman loves to read, loves furry red monsters (aka - Elmo and she learned his name all on her own!) and she also loves her teddy bear! I'll post more pictures of her favorite things in the near future. So why the nickname stuntwoman you ask, well let me tell you she runs and climbs everywhere! If she were a video game she would have used three of her nine lives by now and she is either going to be a contestant or the next hostess of fear factor! Hah!

The Master

We just finished dosing the Master with antibiotic ear drops for a suspected infection. I had to go with gut instinct and based on previous experience from his first tubes we did not want to take any chances. We are still waiting for our social insurance to start and still do not have a doctor, sigh. Anyhow we were sneaky and did the a.m. drops while he slept, super easy! Evening doses has not neen so easy as we all dread the experience. We found it best to not discuss the need for drops and fuel his anxiety, rather we just ambush him and then give him a couple jelly beans for good participation right after. This never really helps the medicine go down! Speaking of which he just saw Mary Poppins and loved it! Oh, but back to the drops. After one of our next to last evenings we had finished the dose and he was upset as usual. He took the eardrop bottle (the lid was back on) from Daddy and proceeded to give Daddy drops. I'll show you!

By the way the red circle with the line is a lollypop per the artists report!

Home sweet home

Here is our home for the next two years.

If you look to the right of the door you can see our red wagon tucked away under that window!

The doors are actually more a pine green park ranger color. It was nearing evening when I took this photo.

Park

This is the new park we visit quite often in our new hood. It's a short wagon ride just down the street. So far I think we have heard French, russian, italian, spanish, greek, various asian and indian dialects all being spoken there.

Addendum: We heard romanian being spoken as well!

Eh!

Hello there! Belated Happy 4th. Sorry for the delay in posts but little people with tummy bugs and computer snags have interupted previous attempts to do so sooner.

Canada celebrates Canada Day, it's Birthday and independence from England anually on July 1st. So in honor of this more discussion on Canada.

If you've been around a local kanuck long enough you'll hear them say, "eh". What is this figure of speech?

EH = pronounced AY (similar, but not the same as huh) Eh is a useful word that is very important and is the basis of all Canadian communications. It is used in conjunction with other words, or simply by itself. The tone or the slight differences in exclamation also changes the meaning:
Eh? = what did you say?
Eh? = what do you think?
EH? = something to say just to end a sentence.
Ehhhh!! = WOW!!
EH!? = what do you mean?
!!!??EH!! = your joking!!!

Other interesting Canadian terms:-hoser = a good friend..

take off! = you are kidding, no way, fly an airplane.

Toronto = pronounced Trawna.

Lake Ontario = where all sewers drain into.

So if you hear a Canadian talking like this:-Hey..eh..cmon eh hoser! y'know take off!! EH?? umm err well, hey, ok, eh!It's very friendly! ...... and they really DON'T talk like that!

Here we are!

Hello Family and Friends,
Here it is at last! We finally have a good phone and internet connection allowing us to keep you up to date on our happenings. It has been a little bumpy here in the beginning getting adjusted to a new place but overall we are enjoying our new surroundings.

FootballMan is surrounded by HOCKEY! His observation is that things are not so different other than regional as if we had moved to another part of the country and he doesn't feel like he is in a foreign country. As long as you can look past the English/French on road signs and food boxes. Kilometers for travel on signs and in car especially when you are used to miles. Celsius vs. farenheit (little lesson in conversion is take the celsius number and double it and add 30 for the temp. in farenheit. So for instance today was 22 celsius so that is roughly 74 farenheit.

Gallons are broken into Liters, oops that's actually Litres here and gas here is sold in litres at 1.33 currently so you do the math, but let me just say "OUCH" for the pocketbook. loonie: the Canadian one-dollar coin; derived from the use of the common loon on the reverse. The toonie (less commonly spelled tooney, twooney, twoonie) is the two-dollar coin. Loonie is also used to refer to the Canadian currency, particularly when discussing the exchange rate with the U.S. dollar; neither loonie nor toonie can describe amounts of money.

Napkins are called serviettes, is this british or french influence? A restroom is referred to as washroom and that is how signs are posted and people will ask to use your wash room. A garburator is a garbage disposal. Runners are tennis shoes. Warm up or track suit is in reference to jogging suit. A chocolate bar means candy bar. Color and honor are spelled colour and honour. A center is spelled centre. Pediatrician is sometimes spelled paediatrician. I must confess at this point there is a European influence I do notice!

Milk that comes in a bag and not a plastic container and is double the price! If you order lunchmeat at the deli counter be ready to ask in grams not pounds. Fabric is sold in meters not yards. There are so many different cultural backgrounds and it is reflected in the isles at the grocery store where an entire isle is dedicated to asian or indian food products, or kosher products. Did you know that if you order a pizza here you can request halal produts? Which means it's kosher! And if you order from a kids menu and want mac & cheese look for it under kraft dinner, that's how it's classified here! One last final difference is the canadian pronunciation of various words, like out, about, house have a long oh sound and appear to sound like oout, aboout or a boot or a boat, and hows. Canadians also like to say "Eh!" Well have a discussion about that next time as well as some interesting statistics about canadians.

Lots of Love from Way up North!