Hello friends!
Hope your weekend was warm and sunny and lovely wherever you are--that the snow has or is melting, that the sunshine came out to brighten your weekend. After days of cold weather this week which made us dig out our hats and mittens and winter coats all over again, it warmed up a bit this weekend and made us wonderfully happy!
We spent a morning in beautiful downtown Oakville close to the lake with it's lovely little shops, bakeries, bistros and down square. We admired the flowers which Gabriel said were "so bew-eee-ful!" turning his palms upward and outward from his body, a soft look on his face. We threw rocks into the lake and played at the park taking in all the sunshine.
And this is life with our "three-nager" who insists he NEEDS to do everything. "I NEED to DO IT." Right... sometimes we indulge him.
We were additionally blessed this weekend with six other bodies in our house! Our friends from the East Coast--a personal childhood friend of mine--and her family of six came to stay with us on while visiting Ontario and they were the highlight of the month! Gabriel and Magdalene were delighted to have little friends around the house to play with. They all got on famously, so much so that we agreed that it would be splendid if they lived around the corner. Gabriel woke up each morning asking "Where'd the kids go?" And anxiously waited until they woke up so he could play with them. The kids really were amazing! So sweet and played nicely. It was a real absolute joy to have so many children around. Meals were fun times of laughter and chaos with pancakes flipping, pizza nibbling, burger cutting, ketchup squirting, food flying, juice spills, gentle reprimands and coaxing to eat. It was sometimes chatter and giggles and outright laughter. But hardly ever quiet.
Sweet Hannah, who is AMAZING with the kids and our dog Abe. She was sort of our resident babysitter/dog whisperer! Thanks Hannah!
And we got to meet the latest addition, Ollie who had his eyes open for all of 10 minutes all weekend! What a sleeper. We all adored him.
We had to take our friends to the huge park play structure at High Park their last day so the kids could run around before they would have to take their long drive back to the East Coast. I don't think there was any doubt they would be tired. (Here is Maggie, asleep in the swing).
After such a great time together, we were sad to see them go! It may not be in the cards for them to be our neighbors anytime soon, but I think we may have locked their next summer down for another visit to Toronto! Thanks for visiting us and really making our weekend! Gabriel has already been asking (at least 10 times), "Where'd Wesley go?"
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