Mail Delivery

A bunch of little packages from China and Canada Post put them all into one big package.  So I got them all at once.  Fun.  Finn is all caught up to his sisters in supplies and finery ;)  We're all too busy right now to fuss a photo shoot.  His lime harness for daily use fits perfect!  He has a decent harness and leash for camping that matches the girls. 

And the tie!!!  Omgawd.  

Lili is serving at the Rock Cod this summer.  I believe it's going well so far.  Fei is head busier now.  

Fei got her courses selected for University.  Her grad is coming right up.  She got 100% on her capstone project.  Both Lili and Fei submitted their acceptance of their room offer.  They're sharing a suite in the same building Lili was in.  Across the street from the University. It's almost time to start some shopping to get Fei equipped to move out.  It will definitely be shocking to have them both move out!!  For 4 months we won't have built in sitters.  Jia will be 12 in December.  Not sure what's more shocking...girls moving out...or Jia turning 12?!

I got a ticket for next Saturday night at the Drive In!!  Fun!  

Company

Look what came in the mail.  Sooo cute.

Photo shoot plans ;)

I was trying to get a picture of Eric walking Finn on a leash but I didn't catch it.  The parking lot looks good though ;)

We made it to the farmers market.  Jade came with us.  It wasn't too crowded. I brought Finn.  No pictures though?  Weird.

A happy little Meili with her face in the wind on the way home.

A Bright Angel trip.

Such happy little faces. Finn was behind the girls.

They love the sun.

For the first time ever we managed getting the Bonnie Martin's Chinese food special.  It didn't disappoint.  We'll definitely make the effort to do this take out again.  Kin Beach always fun and we met Dawn-Marie, Al and Rosa there too.

Fun having the Finch family here. Three late nights on the patio ;)  Not a lot of picture taking ongoing on.

The gate is supposed to hold Chihuahuas up and allow cats through.  Not sure this was quite the goal.  Haha.

The slimey sand we got May for her Birthday was a big hit!

Not much actual napping happened but for a while it was definitely puppy heaven.  So fun to have Rosie around.

Twins. Rosie and Coco napping together.

Another twin moment.

Drawing contests.  

Big event...both boys in a matched pj set!!  I tease ALL the time about their combinations and they tell me all the time they don't care.  I was starting to think they weren't able they accepted the challenge tonight ;)

Kai's IEP

Some fun stuff from Kai's iep meeting the other day.  First, it sounds like we get to have Michelle with him again next year.  He's having such a great year.  We found out he has been working with the speech therapist learning to use augmented language with an iPad and doing great with it.  He is able to put full sentences together with it!  Then the iPad speaks for him.  Next steps are to try and teach Kai some skills with his cane so he can get more comfortable with the cane in general and ultimately feel more comfortable walking in new places.  This is the email message I just got from his teacher:

"You should have been flies on the wall today!!  Michelle, brilliant Michelle, had attached dinosaurs all over Kai's cane (see attached photo) so that he would feel more positive about learning to use his cane.  She had a song from Youtube about a Dinosaur Walk and it was so catchy and fun!  Kai would make the dinosaurs walk with his cane while we all danced and sang along.  It was a very dear moment!"

How fun is that?!

New Digs for Mom.

It's so pretty and new ;)

So much work to do this swap and move.  Easier than the big down size and move for sure though. 

Last night we took our moho to a friend in Lake Cowichan who was helping Eric figure out why the new generator would only run 10 minutes before shutting off.  Eric said they were the last attempt and if they couldn't figure it out he was going 100% solar.  We got a call this afternoon saying it was fixed and ready.  Yay!!  However...I'm still thinking the 100% solar sounds pretty good anyways.

Since we were in Lake Cowichan at dinner time we tried out a little place there that has this speeder trailer set up with tables. Kai was predictably super excited about dinner on a train :)  We tried their homemade cinnamon buns.  Yum.  Worth the drive.  Dinner was amazing for three(Kai, Luk & Jia), pretty good for one(Eric), close for one(Lili), blah for one(me), not great for one(Fei). Good enough overall we'll go back this summer when we camp there, some of us will order differently.  

Happy Birthday Oliver.

He's 3.  He's also pretty sure his life sucks.  We won't let him out and his paw hurts. It is looking better this morning.  On a careful watch because if it doesn't heal we're looking at a toe amputation.  

He holds it up off the floor and he let's me very gently hold his paw and have a look.  

Eric sent me this.  Phew.  Oliver has settled down for a minute and taken a break from pacing at the doors. I'm also pleased his draining foot is on the washable dog blankies.  Again...we're just sooo glamorous.  

Jabbed!

Jabbed!  He didn't appear as excited as I was.  He didn't even ask for a cake. We want life back without masks.  We want gatherings.  Lots and lots of gatherings.  We want our cruise in January.  Doing what it takes.

In other news.  I'm home alone(well Fei is here sleeping) and I cleaned the kitchen to get ready for zoom iep meetings and it's been clean for a whole 1/2 hour!  Such a rare thing.

Oliver has an owie.

The girls sent a picture of Oliver to us while we were camping.  His foot looked a bit swollen.  I assured them he wouldn't die.  Eric checked last night and it was worse but he was putting weight on it and he was eating and drinking.  This morning Lili woke me up to say it was worse again. Eric trapped him in the cage. So he was off to the vet this morning.  He's been bit by something.  It's infected.  He's being sedated today to clean out the puss.  Injected antibiotics and a day of observation.  Poor wee fellow.  

At the back of the vet parking is a donation drop off center for a thrift store.  Some of the local unhoused were shopping in the boxes and making a heck of a mess.  I'm acutely aware this morning of how privileged we are that we can just just take the critters in when they need help.

Update: Oliver's surgery went well.  He's home.  On house arrest and stuck with a litter box.  He isn't thrilled.  His poor foot looks way worse now.  It's Lewis's Birthday and he's locked out.  Uh oh.  We don't love putting food outside it brings in raccoons.  Walter and Jenny know to hang around the front door to get in.  This isn't the fun part.

Eric took a selfie.  I think his 2nd ever.  He sent this one to me at midnight.  Haha. He loves his puppy. 

Eric gets his jab this morning.  I'm home waiting for him.  He's run into Canadian Tire to talk Gelato truck issues with his mechanic friend.  

Lili and made their appointments for the vaccine May 31. 

Fei did the whole traditional kidnap your grad partner thing last night.  I slept through her leaving at like 3am and I have no clue when she came home.  She was in bed when I got up so that was a huge relief.  I encourage them to be adults and make their own choices and then worry like a crazy.  Now we anticipate the night she gets kidnapped.  Such a weird tradition.  Wasn't a thing for us.  Lili didn't participate.  We're all thinking there is ZERO chance her date is getting in this house past the Chihuahuas.  Haha.

Goldstream

Double cuteness 😍

So funny.  

The best part.

We hiked to the falls.  We were told 139 stairs and 170 stairs.  No clue how many but a lot.

Too many people there to get any closer.

Just caught this moment last second through the trees!

Lots of interest from other kids on this cool thing.

Jia was loving her new skateboard.

The crazy lady walking her dogs in a stroller all over the campsite.

Red letter moment.  Coco snuggled up to Finn on my lap at the fire!  

So, booking sites is a nightmare these days.  We take pretty much any site we can.  This time we were across from the sani dump.  I was massively concerned.  Occasional smells were pretty unpleasant.  In the end though, this kept Eric hugely amused.  In order to get a better view today during breakfast he slid the screen back.  Haha.  I had no idea we could do that.  Total gong show but he had fun.

We found Albi stranded on the Highway on our way home today.  He and Eric were able to trickle charge the battery enough to jump it.  Limped it home with another stop.  They've been playing with it all afternoon.

We're on a cookie smore kick this year.  Oreo's were good last weekend.  This weekend we brought maple cookies. Also good.  Shannon brought lemon cookies for the 2nd night.  Amazing.  Next trip repeating lemon because they were that good but going to try fudgios too.