Adventures of a tiny Squirrel and her friends...

This is our life.

Sunday, 7 October 2012

Gobble Gobble

It's been nearly two months since my last blog post and exactly two months since we arrived in Ontario. Things have been going well but super busy. I guess I knew it would be sorta hectic going to school and working and being Autumn's mama but this is CRAZYYYYY! School is a ton of work...Weekly tests, loads of reading and upcoming assignments. I'm loving it though. Really, I'm not complaining. We are lucky that my course requires us to see several plays over the course of the semester so Teddy and I have taken advantage of a close-by Nana and turned a couple of those into date nights. It's been lovely.
Life is just very busy and it's hard to believe we've already been here for two months and the weather is turning cool, leaves are falling, etc. It's Thanksgiving weekend! Time is just flying!
Anyway, we've been up to lots...Where to start?!?! We are loving our little house in Toronto and very much enjoying our closeness to the lake and waterfront trails. Teddy, Autumn and Elliott have their own special little beach that they go to almost everyday while I'm at work--It's beautiful, quiet and the water is not stinky--which is HUGE for Lake Ontario. Ha! Autumn also has some really great parks close by so she's been busy exploring those and even climbs the steps and descends the slide all by herself!! MY BIG GIRL! She's growing up so quick. She's ever extending her vocabulary and just put her first two words together. "Hot tea." Yep, my little granny squish. She is also working on her potty training diligently and will tell us "PEEPS!" and we promptly rush her to the toilet and put her on the porceline throne. She applauds and cheers when she hears herself tinkling. She has even pooped on the potty a few times. We're getting there!!!
Teddy has been scouring the city for jobs and has been hired on by two events companies which should offer him a good number of hours combined and a pretty flexible schedule so we won't have to fuss too much with baby-sitters and whatnot, which is pretty ideal.
Overall, we are all happy and settling in well in our new home and looking forward to making some excellent memories here. Life is good.


























































































Sunday, 19 August 2012

I know it's been awhile...Our trip across America.

We are now in Ontario after six excellent days of traveling through the states. It was a long journey and at times, a tough one, but we have safely arrived in our new city and are hoping to find ourselves a sweet little place to call home over the course of the next week or so. Autumn did great on our roadtrip. Seriously, I thought it was an ambitious endeavour and I expected WAYYYY more tears and complaining about being confined to her car seat. She shocked Teddy and I by keeping herself entertained most of the time with her books, her little toy phone and snacking on dried fruit and goldfish crackers. She was thrilled at every opportunity to stretch her legs and often put up a stink about returning to the car after a break and was like a wild animal at the end of the day when we would stop for the night. Overall, she was a little trooper and we are so grateful for her patience with us through a few 14 hour driving days. I'm sorry this is a short little entry, but I have yet to set up my computer so I am squeezing in a few minutes on Teddy's while he has a swim. I promise there will be more updates and more photos very soon!

This car ride ain't so bad

First day of road trip in Washington.


Beautiful Idaho!



America the beautiful.

Our kind of town!



Bathing and cooling off in the rivers of Montana.

Who needs swim-trunks?


I love camping!!






How the hell do we get all this back in the car?!! WTF!

Huge fires in Montana. The whole sky was in smoke.






Custer's last stand.






Wyoming.


A lover's kiss in the hills of Wyoming.


'Donna's Diner' Moorcroft, Wyoming They still have a smoking section!

Deadwood, South Dakota





We arrived just in time for the Sturgess bike rally.



The first taste of freedom, Jessie James whiskey.



Mt. Rushmore





I killed this shirt good! God bless America!

Shooting my first shotgun!



Captain Autumn and her first mate Apple









Marge & Tina need to cool off! Let's get wet!


Toronto at last!