We went to Sudbury in November for a visit, and Grampa & Gammie took Cadence to Science North. I went shopping. They had a blast, and Cadence is VERY MUCH looking forward to his next chance to check it all out. They even went to the butterfly room, which I don't think I could handle (although I appreciate them, they give me the heebie-jeebies).
Drew took a pic of Cadence's pic on the wall at his school when we were there for the Christmas concert (stay tuned..Drew will share the video of it). This is from September's assembly where C. won "student of the month" in his class.
Cadence's school had a superhero day about a month ago. We had of course forgotten until the morning of, so spontaneously encouraged him to be "Towel Man." It was awesome. It ended up being a snow day, though, so the superhero day was then rescheduled for two weeks later...but he was so excited about the idea, he still went as Towel Man. Here he is, the night before, modelling the costume. I was very impressed by Drew & Cadence's story about how Towel Man comes to make bad guys laugh, which is what makes them turn into nice guys.
Every year since we've been up here, we've joined a bunch of families at a friend's farm for the Christmas Tree Party. The trees acidify the soil of their farm, which I guess is a problem for their cattle, so rather than clearing it all themselves, they open their whole lot up every year to folks to cut down trees. They hook up trailers to tractors & tote us around, then host a huge farm-style potluck in the house. Farm families have THE BEST potlucks ever.
After the cut. Cadence faithfully yelled "timber" to warn others.
Asleep on the way home from the tree party. Notice the farm toy in hand. The last time we had visited with Clayton some months ago, he and Cadence traded one toy. They traded back at the tree party :)
After the big snowfall a few weeks ago, Cadence helped Drew shovel the deck. This is all for a special purpose--they push the snow off the end of the deck for their luge track. After yesterday's thaw, the track's out of service...but I'll try to take some pictures once it's back in use.
We managed not to get any pictures of Christmas itself...so skip to Boxing Day:
Santa left Cadence a note suggesting that he had run out of room in his sleigh & had to make another trip...when we got back home, there was a little drum kit under the tree! Cadence has been playing A LOT since getting it, and loves to jam.
Yesterday was very strange--warm out. We played outside in the rain, and built a great snowman with the kit Auntie Mere gave Cadence for Christmas. The warm weather was perfect for building a snowman! :)
Snowman today, after yesterday afternoon's warm weather :(
Today everything froze again, and the sun even came out...the first time in ages. The snow was like a March snow, with a nice crust on it...so we had lots of fun playing outside. Including starting to build a fort (typically something that we can't do til Feb or March). Drew and Cadence even had saws to cut perfect bricks. I just used my hands, so our fort's got a bit of a dual personality. Anyways, we celebrated with hot chocolate and treats that the neighbours brought by.
1 comment:
Hey, great pictures! It's a bird, it's a plane...... NO, it's TOWEL MAN!!!!
Love Tracey
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