I’ve been M.I.A for a while now, rest assured we returned home safely from our trip away… just   Neither of us really wanted to leave Canada, it makes a big difference to be somewhere you love, where your own family is treated equally and where there are some of your favourite people.  Oh, and there is a Fluevog store close by

I guess I can sum up the trip in a few points:

• Highlight: Ziplining down Grouse Mountain
• Lowlight: Is that a real term?
• Something interesting: Um… when you herd ducks in to a backyard.. you have to remember they need to leave somehow.

I only needed to get terse with someone one time; we had had a very long wait at Athens airport and we got on the plane to Frankfurt to find we weren’t all seated together.  The stewardess watched as I struggled to strap the car seat in to Grunge’s seat and poor Grunge was screaming from a sore mouth.  When the seat was in the stewardess walked over and asked if the seat had been approved for airline use to which I said it had and then she said I would need to install the car seat in the other seat we were given.  It took all my strength not to vault the seat and start papercutting her with my boarding pass.  I calmly proclaimed, “That would have been nice to know BEFORE I installed it.”  and didn’t really mind when Grunge screamed for the duration of the flight.

Anyway, enough about the trip, one thing, if you want to take a toddler around the world, do it, it’s awesome fun   Oh, and spending 6 weeks straight with your partner rocks too

It was two years ago that we found out we were expecting Grunge, pretty cool if you ask me   She’s an awesome little kid.  This week she’s finally become brave enough to walk on her own and as my brother said she’s very “stable table”.  She loves dolls and to mimic whatever we do.  Grunge loves our animals and likes to stand at the back door and “bark” at the dogs and pat the cats, even offering them her cereal.

Since getting back, Em and I have been really busy, her with her new job and me with my “stuff” (that’ll all make sense in about 7 months). We’re also thinking about upgrading one of our cars.  The red car has been stalling at idle the last few months and the service centre hasn’t been able to find any issues and the car computer isn’t returning an error either.  Today they found a “known issue” with the ignition coils which are currently being replaced.  If the car still stalls we’re selling her as neither of us want to put Grunge in a car that has problems.

Oh, very exciting news, we were totally over the moon (moo) when Sar and Sparky welcomed Baby Elvis to the world on the 27th of September.  He’s a gorgeous little guy with two awesome parents.   Hooray for babies

Posted by by Batty on October 29th, 2008