We recently spent a week at Steve's family's cottage in Port Elgin, on the shores of Lake Huron. We had a wonderful time and the kids loved spending time at the beach.
Grammy Inez relaxing on the beach.
Ross insists on keeping his baby close to his side, and going shirtless makes for easier feeds when his baby needs to eat (from his bellybutton, of course).
Steve got an old model train of his dad's working again, and all the kids loved watching it go, and loading it up with cargo.
Grandpa Don doing a puzzle with the kids outside.
At the beach...
Ahhh, cottage life - reading while the cousins play happily in the sand.
Cottage transportation...
Ross found this little airplane at the local flea market and loved playing with it.
Everyone went for a ride on the little Port Elgin Steam Train.
The kids making tunnels for the model train in the kitchen one morning.
An early celebration of Caleb and Steve's birthdays!
After the week at the cottage, Steve flew back to California for work, and the kids and I spent another week in Ontario with my friend Henrietta and her three girls, and my sister. Ross became completely enamored with Emma, who is Henrietta's oldest. She was so fun, gentle, and attentive with Ross, and his face lit up when she walked in the room.
We met up with Helen and Liz in Toronto one morning. We tried to get all 9 kids in a picture together, but mine were especially uncooperative!
We got to see Aunty Kristin three weekends in a row, which was really fun! On our last weekend together, Madeleine asked to make a blueberry cake with Kristin.
Upon our return home, we got to celebrate Steve's actual birthday! The kids and I were so happy to be back, and Madeleine especially could not get enough of her Daddy all week. Tomorrow we are off again, this time to Abbotsford and Calgary to see my family, and some of my nursing classmates.
