Happy Canada Day!

For Canada Day, we went to Bath to check out their Canada Day festivities!  Scott, Gemma, and Milo came as well, so we were able to have a nice picnic lunch and enjoy the surprisingly cool weather!  Here are some photos with random narration.

Does Parker look excited for the parade or what?

The weather was perfect!  Not too hot, not too cool, with a bit of breeze.  Last year it was about 10 million degrees.

Gemma and Milo enjoying some lunch and some laughs.

Interrupting Parker's peanut butter and jam sandwich for a photo.  I didn't even think about wearing red even though Gemma mentioned it on the phone before we left!  Woops.

Milo being cute.

Parker and Mommy being cute together.

Family photo!  Apparently the Elliotts celebrate blue Canada day.

Milo laughing at Scott.

Family photo!

Parker giving Milo a little kiss.

And a hug.

And chasing him like a zombie to eat his brains.

Hey Milo, isn't this normally your nap time?

Scott showed Parker how he can magically pull things out from behind his ear (vegetables, hats, you name it) and now Parker likes to pretend he's doing it too.  "There's something behind your ear!"

"What's that behind your ear?"

"Ohhh!"

Parker was very concerned that Milo was tired and wanted to make sure he was comfy and able to nap.

Flag boy.

Unfortunately the loud horns on the fire trucks scared Parker!  He thought they were too loud and had to go further away to enjoy the parade, so he went with Mommy to have some hugs.  Here's a loud firetruck, though.

Milo was a trooper!  I think the gigantic trucks kept him awake.

Soldier guys who fired guns every now and then.

Bagpipes and drums!

You can never have enough bagpipes and drums.

Gemma's friend Tori on the float.

No parade is complete without a creepy clown.

Parker and Gemma!

Happy Canada Day!

Door Guardian

Parker figured out how to open our front door by himself maybe a month or so ago, but luckily he's pretty good and doesn't really run outside without us knowing.  But that's not to say he won't.  So we went looking for some new locks to put on the front door.  I picked up one of these at Home Depot:

And I also picked up one of these, because I didn't know which would work better:

But I ended up being too paranoid to install it.  You have to drill the bolt part into your door, and I didn't really want to drill into our steel door.  I'm not the most handy person in the world.....  Luckily, while I was at a playdate the other day, they had this crazy locking mechanism on their door called the Door Guardian.

  Apparently they had them at Home Depot and I didn't even notice.  So I went back today and picked one up, and I have to say it might be the greatest invention ever (behind the GPS).  It's so simple, but so effective. And the best part is that it just screws into the wooden door frame and you don't have to damage your actual door!  If you're worried about your kids escaping, pick up a Door Guardian.  They're about $28 and even a moron like me can install them!  Here's a video of the Door Guardian in action:

Baby On Board

Good Times At Rotary Park

We stopped in at Rotary Park the other morning after our unsuccessful attempt to fly our Brobee Kite at Lemoine Point.  I think we needed more wind, so we'll give it another go next week hopefully.  I wanted to take some cool kite-flying photos and videos, so hopefully we can do it!  Luckily the park doesn't require wind to play.

He enjoyed sitting at this little table set....

And pretending to eat cookies.....

Scooping some up......

Stuffing his mouth full!  Om nom nom nom....

Here he is doing that weird thing where he doesn't actually look where he's walking, but instead stares off to the side.  This is exceptionally dangerous on a play structure because there are openings for fire poles and climbing bars and slides that he could just tumble down without noticing.

Clapping for himself after he sat down on the little stool.

Staring at the lady and kid swinging next to us.

Doing that walking/staring thing again.  A common thing heard from me is, "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE WALKING PLEASE!!!!!"

On our way to the car, Parker saw a gigantic puddle and wanted to walk through it.  It just so happened that I wanted to take photos of mud splashing everywhere, so we were a good combination.

There was a family having a picnic nearby and they stared at us the entire time, probably thinking we were crazy.

But the mud explosions were pretty awesome.

He was pretending to be a blender, mixing up ingredients to make juice.  April makes him juice that he calls "New Juice" which is usually made up of frozen strawberries, a banana, and some orange juice or apple juice (there might be one or two other ingredients in there that I'm forgetting because I never actually make it).

When we got home we had a nice lunch of peanut butter sandwiches, raspberries, and Goldfish crackers.

Ready for an Ozzy concert.

Baby On Board

Lil' Drummer Boy

Here's what's going through Parker's head:

"Thanks for the cool shirt Uncle Devon, Aunt Tracy, Connor, and Mason!  Now watch as I examine this cake thing......and smell it.....and laugh a little bit........and eat it.  Om nom nom nom...."

Elmo And Jason Mraz Want You To Stop Reading This....

And go outside.  Parker does a funny impression of Elmo singing and dancing during this song.

First Photo!

Here's our one and only ultrasound of baby Lauren!  When we went to get Parker's ultrasound the technician was really excited for us and helpful and gave us like 8 or 9 different scans (including a few 3D ones)!  The lady who was working when we went this time?  Not so much.  She was pretty dry, and only gave us one scan.  Ah well.  She still looks pretty cute.

Yo Gabba Gabba Babies

Parker recommends this catchy tune about being a cute baby.

Also, I'm not sure if I mentioned this previously or not, but I picked up tickets for Yo Gabba Gabba live in Ottawa!  It's not until September but I'm pretty psyched.  

Behold........

The tricycle!  While we were visiting Nana and Papa, they picked up a cool tricycle for him!  We went shopping and found a nice helmet and then tried to teach him how to ride it!  Here we are back at home trying to learn in the busy streets of Amherstview.  He's really good at keeping his feet on the pedals but still doesn't quite get the whole pedaling motion.  We made a trip to the mailboxes and back and he thought that was pretty cool.