Happy 95th Birthday Lola!

The grandkids got together and planned a 95th birthday party for Lola

-and got their parents to pay for it!

We're wearing traditional Filipino garments:

Mommy is wearing a Kimona and Logan and Daddy are wearing Barongs.

Grandma and Grandpa even came down for the weekend!

Logan liked all the clapping and laughing at the video messages that were played.

He was very good for eating about an hour and a half later than usual.

After dinner all the great grandkids presented Lola with a bouquet of flowers.

Logan didn't understand that he was suppose to hold on to the ribbon and decided to just run ahead instead.

After presenting the flowers, Logan gave his Lola a hug...Logan and Daddy sharing a laugh -she is telling him to dance!
The happy family on the dance floor!

Since it was after 9pm, we put Logan in his PJs and put on his sandals that light-up every time he takes a step.

He really liked looking at the lights on the dance floor and getting his groove on.

When Logan got tired we just put him in his stroller and give him his bottle there. He was soon fast asleep even though there were lots of people around him chatting and the music was loud. This gave mommy and daddy a chance to salsa and merengue and pretend they were in Cuba.

The next morning when Logan woke up he saw the surprise that daddy brought home for him -lots of balloons! He was very excited and can say 'balloon' now.

We could tell Logan was a bit sleepy from the excitement the night before as in the morning he was a bit zoned out.

Here he is in slow motion while watching his favorite show, Yo Gabba Gabba. LOL

Happy Birthday to you!

A sleepy Logan at bath time singing...

Yurting at Mew Lake in Algonquin

Augh, one of the worst things about going anywhere with a small child is packing! We were very happy to pick up a used travel stroller the day before we left as it folded smaller than our usual one.

Logan handled the three hour drive to Algonquin Park really well.

Here he is with Tita Helen when we finally got to the Mew Lake campground.

Logan learnt two new words this long weekend: "tree" and "dirty". LOL

We decided we would just have to embrace dirt and accept that it's okay as long as it's not in his mouth. Here is Logan "drawing".

Who needs toys and tv when you have Blue Jays and Chipmunks to entertain you?!


Logan liked going down to the lake -we could get to it from a path at our campsite.
. There was tons of wild blue berries at the campground.



This was an assessable nature walk path through two bogs -one created by beavers and the other created through glacier movements.

Not so sure about this bridge! Yikes!

Sharing with Tita Helen

Enjoying snacks

Watching a hare at our campsite

"Helping" Tita Helen with the dishes ---involved trying to drink the water, stepping into the washing bucket and dropping the sponge into the dirt.

Group photo on the assessable Logging Museum hike.

"Choo=Choo", Logan said as soon as he saw the train.

At the Beaver Pond.

Ice Cream snack!

At the Algonquin art centre.

On the Lookout Point trail.

Our Yurt, #65 at Mew Lake!

It came with table and chairs, two bunk beds, a light, heater, dishes and BBQ.

Our amazing fire after Logan went to sleep

Wild Blueberry pancakes for breakfast -yum!

To end off the weekend we even saw two moose on the way home!

Our little garden gnome

Here is Logan running around with his friend, Sanjay. This was right after Loggie thought it would be a good idea to eat dirt. And here he is practicing to be a garden gnome...

Our Weekend

Logan is a very big boy now -he has mastered the use of a spoon and can now eat cereal by himself. Saturday morning we got Logan's haircut. I wish he would stay still for us at home!

Hannah's 2nd and Jacob'4th Birthday party was at a gymnasium.

Happy Birthday!

Hannah and Logan didn't want the party to end.

While people were leaving, these two were still getting down.

Saturday afternoon it poured. When it's raining hard, Logan likes to go to the front porch and feel the water on his hands.

And then on Sunday morning after waiting in line to get into Wonderland...it started to pour! It wasn't suppose to until after lunch! Since we have season tickets, we decided to leave rather than wait a few hours for it to pass. Thank goodness we can we can go into Toys R Us, play with the toys and then leave without a full tantrum....likely won't last much longer. Daddy taught Logan to push the trains and say 'choo-choo'. Very cute.

To celebrate the arrival of a new cousin in Vietnam in 216 days we went out for Pho's.

Logan loved it and was very well behaved.

Get me out of this!

My little boy has grown up --he will no longer allow me to dress him up. LOL

Oh well, at least I got these pictures and these while I could...

I love you!

Logan at 17 months and six days now says "I love you!".

He started saying it when Mommy said it at Dinner....and kept on saying it! We called both set of Grandparents to show off. Click here to see Logan trying to say it at four months old.

Logan and the beanstalk

At school Logan did a science project -they each grew their own bean in a clear cup so that they could see the roots and learn how to water plants to help them grew. After a few weeks Logan brought his bean plant home and Grandma planted it the backyard garden. Today we were able to eat the first bean!

Logan was very proud of his bean and didn't want to eat it. He just wanted to look at it and pass it to Mommy or Daddy to 'share'.