Dear Diego

Dear Diego - you are sixteen months old. You are such a wonderful little boy, when did that happen? Everyday, it seems like every moment you learn something new. This week you have learned to stack blocks one on top of each other. You are using your words and your hands and your face to tell us what you want and what you think. You have discovered the splash park and show amazing courage as you rush through the freezing water, laughing and screaming. You are a very smart and amazing kid and way better than TV.
We love you, Mom

Projects

Over Victoria day weekend we completed two very big, and important kinds of projects that have been hanging over me for quite some time now. The first was a project that is about 2 years out of date. After reading this post from Kendra I decided it was time to wash my windows. I don't know if you noticed that this post was written one year ago. I started, once again unsuccessfully, to get to clean windows over the weekend. Then I realized - what this project needs is a trip to Canadian Tire. $12.00 later, with chamise and squeegie in hand here is what they look like. It's glorious.

I also got to work with the skill saw that I borrowed 2 months ago and used up some of the left over lumber from the deck. Here is what appeared.

We are having so much fun with Diego lately, his developmental jumps are daily and impressive. Here is a favorite new 'post'.

Visits

We've been blessed with some wonderful visits lately, of which I have very few pictures. .. bad blogger.

First - with Aunt Sue, Bill, Jenny, Caroline, Joe and family. Having missed the birthday party we took a road trip up to visit on our own and the whole family went out of their way to be there again. Hooray! We had a great time hanging out, eating lots of wonderful food and generally spending time together with very little pressures to 'catch up' or do much of anything. The perfect kind of family visit really.

Then it was off to Jenn J's house where we were pleasantly surprised to find Kendra and Adara. More hanging out without much pressure to do much of anything. I do have pictures of this visit - thanks to Kendra's shiny new blackberry.

Then, just last weekend, Isaac and Sue came up to visit us, spent the night and do some errands. More hanging out, we ate one of our beautiful organic chickens from Wiseacres, and watched Diego run around. Quite literally, he ran around the house, from living room to dining room and back about 30 times in a row before crashing. Very entertaining for all.

Generally I have to say I have pretty spectacular family and friends. Very laid back and good conversationalists the lot, I like you guys. Just so you know.