April Fools

So the last week or so has been SUNNY!! wahoo! the snow in our front yard is down to about just below my knees and we have been wearing puddle boots and jumping in massive puddles.

But alas ... it appears I am the April Fool as I really believed winter was over. Not so, my friends, it started snowing yesterday and has yet to stop. We have snow in the forecast for the next 3 days. Did I mention that we will not spend the rest of our lives here in the great white north? :) We will survive and as my mom and nana always say "This too shall pass!"

On a brighter note - we are renovating the kitchen starting this Friday. We are staying at some friends while Mike works non-stop :) I will put pics up of it in the next few days and then you can see that ANYTHING we do will be a vast improvement! I am really looking forward to it - well, to it being completed, that is :)

Kaya has been taking swimming lessons again. She loves it and her favourite part is the waterslide at the end of the lesson. Last week, when it was time to go down, she raced to the top before her teacher had even got out of the pool. This is fine, except that the teacher had yet to turn the water on. So it was just a big, dry slide. I am sitting with all the other moms on the bleachers just watching to see how whe is going towork this one out! We hear her sit and then hear this squeaking, you know the wet suit and legs sticking to the dry slide - lovely! Then we hear footprints and realize that she is now walking down the slide. I did become a little concerned at this point because the teacher was still battling with the other kids and hadn't gotten out of the pool yet. Finally Kaya rounded a curve and all of us on the bleachers could just see her head bouncing along as she was walking down the water slide. This is the point when the teacher (who had NO idea where Kaya was) turned on the water. We hear it and watch as Kaya hears it, turns to look at it, makes a face of terror as it approaches and then suddenly her head disappears. Her little feet were swept out from under her. She got to the bottom yelling "I did it! I did it!" It was at this point that the teacher realized what had happened. Hilarious!! I haven't taken a picture of her yet in her swim suit but it will come shortly.

Here is a picture of Keidis on his car. Notice the cat sticking out the side. He loves that thing. He takes it everywhere. And he wakes up meowing and the last thing he says at night before bedtime is "Meow". Lots of fun!!