Month: March 2013

Elspeth on Safari

A local mall hosted Safari Jeff again this year.  My mother in law and I decided to take Elspeth.  Nothing like seeing real animals up close to encourage more language development (oh, it is cool to see them too).  Well, we had a lot of fun.  I will let the photos tell the tale of our mall safari.

Mom, are these the only animals?  Yah know, fake bugs are the best kind.

Okay.  Me and the sheep family are ready for the show.  Bring on some animals.

She got to see this guy stick out his long tongue and eat a bug. 

Then came the super fun part – Face Painting!

Everyone else was getting butterflies, tigers or spiders.  Elspeth?  She asked for a dinosaur.  The girl had to google some suggestions but it turned out AWESOME!

Did you notice that the dinosaur opens it’s mouth whenever Elspeth does?  It was actually fun watching her eat her lunch.

Home from North Bay

After a long drive we are finally home.  The most exciting part of the drive?  Why seeing the sign for Katrine, Ontario of course?  Katrine sees her name in very few places so it is always exciting.

Have you guessed why we were all the way up north?  For skating of course.  This weekend North Bay is hosting the Make it a Date to Skate competition.  It seemed like a good idea to shake things up and get away from it for a bit so we signed up.  It was fun!  Mostly because a group of Katrine’s coaches skaters went up and we stayed together.  So it was not just about the skating but about the girls having fun.  Katrine with her friends and Elspeth playing at being a big girl.

(One of Katrine’s fellow skaters took the photos with the words.  I don’t have that kinda technology.  Looks really nice doesn’t it.  The one of my two cuties is from the pizza party last night.)

I suppose I should fill you in on the skating itself.  Katrine placed 8th for her spins (she kinda mucked one up…in that she did the wrong thing which makes it near impossible to actually win anything).  Then 2nd for elements.  Then 5th for her solo.  She was pretty happy with that place given that there were “really big girls in my group” (aka a few were at least 16).  Most important though, she was proud of her overall effort as were we.  Now a full month without competitions.  Sigh.  Notice, not without skating only no competitions.  Hey, I’ll take what I can get.