To Canada and Beyond!

I'm always late with this stuff... lazy, busy, and unable get much done while Bunky is awake, so time is limited.

For Mark's birthday we flew to Canada - we visited with his dad (Grandpa!) and saw some nice stuff. The funny thing is that I did not get any good photos of Fin in Canada, only things like him being silly in the hotel room. That's okay. That's what you really want to see anyway.

Also have some photos of us at the petting zoo, which has become a Sunday regular treat. Fin likes chicks and bunnies, and even rescued a bunny that had escaped from the big bunny bin. Otherwise, he's more interested in the goats' food and how the gate works... though he did chase the chickens for quite some time.

Coming soon... DISNEYLAND!!!

Fintan the Junior Executive

Fintan gets ready for Disneyland

Fintan tries some Thai peanut sauce

Fintan holds the bunny on his lap

Fintan goes for another bunny

Fintan makes sure the animals have water

Fintan pets some goat butt
(note the facial expression)

Fintan practices using the Force to stack cans
(a very new discovery! can-stacking!)

Just for fun

Just some semi-recent photos for your viewing pleasure...

Bunky gets very excited when he sees hockey. (Except when Mommy is playing, then it's the most traumatic thing imaginable. Even seeing daddy in his helmet in the locker room brings about the blood curdling cries.) We got home from dinner and turned on Game 3, and you'd have thought he was completely aware of the fact that this is the Stanley Cup Finals and this game means everything to Ottawa! He was so cute, I tried to get video but (a) it distracted him, so it's not as cute, and (b) I can't edit it on this computer.

Ottawa who? I bleed blue!

Okay this isn't very recent, it's just before the last haircut, but he's so cute eating his bread at the restaurant... AAAAAHHHH!!!! He's so independent.

And here's Bunky getting ready to travel in time in his Dr. Who inspired phone booth box thingy. It's one of his favorite toys, of course. Here he's taking a temporally displaced lion into the future to assist with respeciation after global warming fries most of Africa. Okay I made that up.

The vocabulary has begun to explode. It's really amazing to behold. Omi taught him "one more" and he actually uses it in context. Today he asked for "one more cherry" which just about floored me. Of course, when he says "one more" it sounds like "man moh" and his ability to say "cherry" is, well, let's just say I can tell he was trying to say "cherry" and leave it at that.

Words he's big on lately, whether or not anyone other than me recognizes what he means: one more, all gone, airplane, helicopter, ding (dong), gato, agua, cheese, cookie (haha sounds like "dackie" but at least he's consistent), doggy, bow-wow, meow, cherry, strawberry, banana (nanana), and I swear he tried to say "hockey" today but I don't count it until he says it in context and deliberately... There are other words, too, but I can't think of them all at the moment.