Jonas and the piano

As I mentioned in the last post, Jonas loves playing hockey, but he also loves to play piano...so well-rounded and only 13 months old! ;P   The thing is, he is no Mozart and so while he enjoys playing, the rest of us struggle as we are forces to listen to his out-of-tune melodies.  Piano lessons ... you can wait!

Our little hockey star

Jonas loves playing hockey.  He is so funny to watch because even though he hasn't mastered the skill of walking, he still wants to shoot the puck and carry drag around a stick, so he does it from his knees.  He's even got the celebratory, "GOAL!" cheer down ... he just wants to be one of the boys! 

   

 

Snowshoeing

A year ago, Colleen, Courtney and I entered an adventure race.  We had to swim, canoe, snowshoe, bike, orienteer, push a firetruck, slip n' slide and army crawl our way through the race and to the finish line.  While we didn't come in first, far from it actually, we managed to place first in our division (all women's team).  We may have been the only team in our division, but we still won the prize, which was a snowshoe adventure at Hemlock.  It took us awhile to coordinate our schedules, but finally, days before the season ended, we made it up the mountain for our adventure.  We had a great time getting lost, falling and enjoying spending time together.  Thanks Karla, Mike, Colleen, Neal, Courtney and Reuben for making it memorable!

Flying a kite

A day at the park.

 

Swimming

Ethan has become a fish!  After successfully completing Sea Turtle (the first level of swimming) last summer after his 5th attempt, he has sailed through the rest of the levels.  During spring break, he passed both Crocodile and Whale (Level 4 and 5) and conquered both the slide and the diving board!  Way to go, Ethan!

 

The Zoo

 We spent another fun day at the zoo with the Kask's.  James and Ethan have so much fun playing together and being silly and we saw a few more animals up close too!

Kelowna

During spring break, we headed up to Kelowna, for a weekend, to visit Reuben's mom and help her do some work on her home.  We enjoyed our hotel that looked onto the lake and had fun at the Kelowna Art Gallery creating self-portraits.  

Jonas

Jonas has become quite a clown.  He likes to make people laugh and tries hard to do things that he thinks are silly.  The best part, and the part that actually makes us laugh, is how hard he laughs at his own attempts.  Pictures, of course, don't capture the moment (note to self: take a video), but they do remind us of them.