February started with my birthday - and I don't think I need to tell you my age - hehehe! The kids made a cake for me while I was teaching and then the next day I had fondant waiting for them so that they could decorate the cake as they thought it should be - which ended up kinda like a Club Penguin theme :)
Emma's birthday party was the following weekend (we couldn't book it sooner as we had guests and we just a bit too busy, but she didn't mind). We went to Clip'n'Climb with Emma's friends and they had a blast. Definitely a place to take your kids!
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| Navia |
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| Kaleb |
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| Emma and Zichon |
The birthday girl was able to do the "Leap of Faith" - which took a little bit of encouraging to get her to jump from a little ledge to try and grab hold of the bag . . . so cool though!!!
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| Kate and Emma |
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| Kaleb |
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| Emma, her friends and her siblings |
Then it was the last birthday of us - Kaleb's 10th birthday! He loved his Pokemon cake! The only thing was that his birthday party ended up being just 1 boy coming over - who had a cold, which ended up us having to cancel his tubing party. Oh well - Kaleb understood and enjoyed a couple sleepovers with his friends to make it up.
Soon after Kaleb's birthday it was time for Daddy to do his first trip of the year - which was kinda nice for us to be able to have him all to ourselves until this first trip. He was gone for 1.5 weeks. He spent a week in London, England and had the weekend to himself so was able to do a bit of sight-seeing.
Then he took the Eurotunnel train from England to France and spend the last of his trip in Paris. Even did the Eiffel Tower on Valentine's Day - how romantic :)
While Daddy was in Paris the kids had a long weekend here in Ottawa, so instead of just hanging out at home, I found a dog sitter and took the kids to Montreal. We had a lot of fun going to the Biodome, water-sliding, eating pizza and watching movies!
We hadn't been to the Biodome before and Kaleb has just LOVED the penguins! The boy that I can't get to sit still quietly without electronics made all of us sit and watch the penguins for 45 minutes!!! He was loving every minute of it - making up story lines for various penguins with sound effects and everything!
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| Navia wanted to get in on the picture taking too. |
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| Watching the monkeys |
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| Navia has to read everything about every animal and plant there. |
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| The kids loved watching the otters getting fed. |
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| Porcupine |
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| Lynx |
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| Navia the Bat - scarrrrry! |
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| Waterfall and kids |
We were going to go the the Science Centre the next day, but the kids started swimming and well, that was it. We spent the entire morning and afternoon until 2pm at the pool!
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| Part of the hotel package was in-room pizzas, pop and a movie - which was the perfect ending to the day! |
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| Mommy and the kids - notice we're kinda missing someone :) |
The month ended with Daddy coming back home and then, unfortunately, got sick and spent the entire weekend in bed. Ug! But, on the good side, we had lots of relaxing time to hang out, just us!
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