A future gardener?

So, I know I have not been very good at updating lately and I have quite a few things to post about and will do so later, but I have to show you this...

I was upstairs putting Shane down for a nap and this is what I came back to!

Biscuit

Shane's first attempt at feeding himself. He loves these!

Shane's first doctor's appointment here...almost

So we finally scheduled Shane's 6 month doctor's apt with our house doctor. Each neighborhood has a house doctor that we take the kids to or if you can't make it there the doctor will come to the house. Very nice. Well, we go to the doctor and get the kids registered and when we see the doctor he tells us that we only come to him if the kids are sick and go to a different place for their well child checks and shots. So, he has yet to have his 6 month check up...at least we tried right?! Just an example of a difference between here and the States. Also, all shots and well child checks are free for kids up to the age of 4. You would also go to the house doctor if you have an emergency that you would not call 911 (221 here) for, but would drive yourself there.

New Years

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you all had a fun and safe night. Ours was very low key and I barely made it to the New Year, but was re energized right at midnight when a crazy amount of fireworks were going off. I have never seen anything like it...4th of July times 2. They were going off in every direction for 2 hours, yes 2 hours. There were a few moments I was afraid the building would catch fire and the houses here don't have smoke detectors.

This picture is the next morning at the corner outside of our house. It was like this all over.

This video isn't the best to actually see the fire works and doens't really do it justice, but you can get an idea...

Christmas Eve, Day and Ajax Game

I just figured out how to post a slide show with in a post so some of these are duplicates of the previous Christmas posting. These pics are from Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the Ajax game we went to today. I will post more about that later.

We have a seat for Shane

Now both kids can go for a ride. He seemed to really like it...not a peep out of him the whole time.

video

Here is a video I forgot to add in the last post.