Getting out of the heat, and into the COLD!

Taby has been earning good behavior "smilies" at school. She earns and uses them for random prizes, and this last batch was used to take the family ice skating. I was looking forward to skating, but realized that Lillian is attached at the hip to me... (Those who know me know she's attached about a foot HIGHER!) So, next time we'll bring a warmed bottle so Daddy can be photographer and Mummy can humiliate her children by falling down every step she takes! (Yah, yah. Canadian blood doesn't ensure we CAN skate, just that we LIKE to skate!!!)

Here we are! Ready to skate at Chilled Ponds! (Mummy is photographer/baby watcher/bench warmer today.) 

I am SOO ready to skate, Mummy! 

Would you hurry up already!?!? 

Let's GO! I've been waiting for this all day, Daddy! 

This is the ONLY picture I got of Beana before she decided that ice skating was NOT for her... So much for having Canadian blood!!! YA BLOODY AMERICAN!!! 

Awe, poor Taby, has to pull her Dad around the rink.... 

Is this seat taken?! 

Keep knees loose... Keep knees loose... 

Look! Greg's evil doppleganger is out to get them!!! 

Hello, little girl... That's a mighty nice looking chair you've got there... 

Greg: C'mon Tab... Let your old dad have a seat..... Please???? Taby: No way, ya old fart!!! Get your own chair!!! 

Taby and Daddy skating together! Ready for the Olympics, guys!? 

The Pool is OPEN!

Well, the girls finally talked us into pumping up the pool and letting them swim. After two 80+ degree days in a row, we had to agree! (If only so *WE* can dip our feet in to cool off, too!) Beana had fun splashing Taby... Until I gave Taby permission to splash back! Hey, kids! What goes around, comes around!!! HAPPY SUMMER-IS-ALMOST-HERE!!!!

Oooooo! Brrrr.... But, it's a pool! We are GOING to swim!!!! 

The water is COOOLLLLLLLLD!!!! 

I love the pool! 

EVERYBODY OUT!! SHAAARRRRKKK!!! 

If the water was THIS high, I wouldn't have to share the pool with you Beana! 

Kick Kick Kick! C'mon Taby, if we BOTH start kicking, maybe we can move the pool into the lake!!! 

Hmmm. Why are my shorts all wet??? 

Lifeguard Beana is too busy sunning herself to save the drowning victim... "She'll be ok in a minute...." 

Ahhh, how refreshing! 

Ha HA!!! Take THAT Taby!!! 

Mummy: "Go ahead, Taby. She asked for it!" 

*sigh* She WAS warned... What goes around, comes around... 

Easter Afternoon

The girls and our friend, Elena, helped to find all the dyed eggs outside. Greg hid them around the tufts of grass and in the bushes! They found them ALL! Good lookers!

Look Taby! I found another one!