First day of hockey

After 2 years of skating lessons, we signed Keyra up for the Initiation Program for hockey.  We really weren't sure what to expect from her as there were plenty of times last year where we had to fight with her to get her on the ice.  I got her all suited up in her gear and away she went.  She skated right out and grabbed a puck and fired it.  She was motoring around really well and taking some really nice slap shots.  She even put a few in the net.  After a short pee break, she went back out and started some more drills and shooting the puck.  I gotta say, that was the most fun I have ever had watching hockey.  It was an absolute blast.

Trinity had her big demo on the weekend, which I missed...again.  It falls every year on the weekend of our year end men's baseball tournament.  Ange video taped it, so I at least got to see it second hand.  After, hockey, ball, and gymnastics demos, we went to a buddy's house for a BBQ and camp fire.  The kids ran around and played some more until they were totally exhausted.

Back to School

As I was leaving this morning, Trin was putting in her new earrings that she got for her birthday.  They are danglers, so I was telling her that she needs to be careful when she is running around and playing at recess.  Her response was, "We don't run around and play on anything anymore, daddy.  We are on the big yard now.".  Man, that was a hard dose of reality.  At least she still gave me a hug and kiss before I left for work.

Keyra seems excited to go back to school as well.  She is still in SK at this point so not much of a change for her.

On a side note, I had the girls out playing hockey on the driveway on Sunday.  Trin thought she would play goalie, and learned the hard way that it was a bad decision.  Keyra has all of a sudden developed a shot.  I know it was just with hockey balls, but she was going top cheese on a few, which zinged right past Trinity's head.  She also hit her in the knee with a clapper.  

Monopoly

Keyra is gone to grandma's for the week, so we decided to have a game of Monopoly last night between, Trin, Ange and myself.  Trinity was getting bored near the end as the game was taking a long time, so we ended up calling it.  Although Ange had by far, the most money, Trinity and I had some pretty nice monopolies and I am sure we would have taken her down eventually.

Last week of summer

My mom has Keyra for the week, so we have some time with just Trinity.  Baseball playoffs are here, so I am not sure how much time I will have, or what we will do with it yet.  We are going to head to Ottawa for the weekend to get Keyra and do a few things fun up there before coming back home and getting ready for school to start.

Birthday Party

Trinity had her birthday party on Saturday.  It was at Putt and Blast.  They got mini golf and laser tag plus pizza and cake.  The kids all had fun.  For her birthday this year, she decided that she would take donations for the Animal Shelter.  So, she got lots of dog food, toys and treats.  We will take her to drop the stuff off this week.  I am sure she will be happy to donate much needed supplies, however, I am sure she will be sad for the animals that are there.  I know I would be too.  I am sure that if I went in there, I would not be able to come out of there without at least 2 dogs.  Anyway, it is a great cause, and she has far too many toys and stuff anyway.  We did buy her 2 DVDs though.  Disney Earth and Disney Oceans.  She has been really into watching BBC Life, Planet Earth and Blue Planet lately, so we thought this would be a nice small reward for her.  Trinity and Keyra are both retaining so much of the information that they learn from those documentaries.  I am so glad that they are both nerds like their mom and I.

Upper Canada Village

We took the kids to Upper Canada Village on Saturday.  We met Stacey and Graham there.  Trinity had done a big project this year in school on the Loyalists Settlers, so we thought this might be a neat thing for her to see.  It really is like stepping back in time to the 1860s.  I know this is much after the Loyalists first landed, but it still shows their way of life not long after coming here.  The girls really enjoyed taking everything in and seeing how they made simple things in the old days.  Their minds are little sponges for sure.  They did get to milk a cow and have a horse drawn wagon ride during the day as well as play some old time games like ball in a cup.  Trinity was especially interested in the school house as that was exactly what her project entailed.  She had to recreate a school house from that period of time, and the one at Upper Canada Village was a near replica.  At the end of the day we had dinner at Kelsey's in Brockville with Stacey and Graham and then made a quick stop in at a friend's BBQ in Camden East before the sky let loose and chased us home. 

Happy 9th Birthday Trinity

Today is Trinity's 9th birthday.  We are keeping it low key today as we are actually having the birthday party next Saturday.  Gramma and Chuck are coming down today for dinner and cake.  Tomorrow we are meeting Stacey and Graham at Upper Canada Village.  I am sure it will be a lot of fun.