Earthquake

Dear Avril,

Yesterday you experienced your first earthquake! You were sitting in the crook of my knee (you like to call it "the nest") on the couch in the living room and I had just closed my eyes for a few minutes when the couch started shaking around. I opened my eyes and asked you to stop moving around so much and you looked at me like I was crazy :) There had in fact been a 5.5 earthquake that had hit. You didn't really realize what was happening and neither did I until your dad told us about it.

Swimmin'

Dear Avril,

keeping up to you is getting very difficult! you have so much energy you almost shine.

You are getting quite good at swimming, this week you wanted to try swimming with a board like the big kids and didn't want my help. i was a little nervous to let you go, but you swam like a pro! so fast i almost couldn't keep up!

"Daddy, perhaps this afternoon we could go to Pearson Park"

We went to the Splash Pad and you had a blast running around in the sprinklers. I was just in the process of buying a popsicle when i heard you crying and saw you come running - you had fallen and hurt your hands. the tears quickly evaporated when you saw the giant popsicle! after you finished you got so cold that you couldn't even talk, just shiver and shake your head that you didn't want to go back into the water!