Ethan Turns 5 and Celebrates All Week Long!

Here we go with Ethan's birthday parties.
One party for friends (both big and small), and the second for family.
Todd and I went crazy with cakes. We made three! Todd also over did it with Chocolate Covered Espresso beans for the adults and Iced Capp's for the kids... not a good idea for any parent to condone.


Transformer cakes... thank you Todd! Ethan and his friends LOVED them... especially the Decepticon cake.



Ethan and his friends (and Maya too) waiting eagerly for cake.



Ethan and his friend having a Wii Boxing match. Funny.... they both have there little legs kicking.


Hello guys! Little Dharma is stunned... I think he just woke up.

Hey ya Mr. D. I love the independent play stage.

U. Peter and Ethan opening gifts.

U. Ben and Maya chillin'.


Maya loved her Tiger face that she had painted at the Circus. She STILL to this day pretends she's a Tiger.

Ethan brought back a cool(in relative terms) GLOWING Light saber from the Circus. He swung it around making light saber noises all day until it broke and the light stopped glowing. Now it is hidden somewhere in the back of his closet.

Ok, this photo of Maya is priceless! Todd caught her touching her tongue to her nose. ??? She says that she learned this behaviour from Daddy. I haven't made up my mind on this one yet.

July and August at Granny's Cottage

Wow, what a summer for cottage trips! We ventured up to Lake Tomiko twice this summer, and boy did we have great weather. Our first trip was just for an extended weekend, but the second trip was for twelve days.... and those twelve days were Phenomenal.

I'll provide some description to the photos... not that it's really needed. ; )

Here we have Todd and Maya in the heaviest Kayak known to man... Todd tried getting off the shore, but didn't really get too far out (I'll give him 3 feet tops).

Cutie pies... Daddy and Dharma chillin'.


Dharma loves hats... hold on to your hat Papa, he's going for it.

And, little D got it! Cute hat D.


Nana putting Scuba gear on Maya... but Maya can't swim. Hmm... that could be a problem.

Ethan ventured out on the paddle boat to chat with our cottage neighbour, Susan.

He was just making sure she was alright. You may notice (like I just did) that he is NOT wearing a life jacket here and he is all alone and can't swim.... I guess that wasn't really well thought out on our part. Oh Shit. To make me feel better though, the water is only 2 feet deep at the most.

Ethan and Maya found something in the sand on our beach. Can you guess what it could be?

Ethan checking things out.

Maya checking things out.

We've caught a frog! Ethan named him Mikey. Maya, stop poking at him already.

Dharma in his bath having some laughs and splashing a lot!

The gang dead a sleep on our way back home from the cottage.