Long time no blog!

Sorry for the blog hiatus.

Steph was away/working last week.

Unfortunately, my Gido passed away as well.

So Charlie and I got to take our first boy's trip.

It's sad to know my Gido is gone, but he lived quite a life, and it made a great reason to see lots of relatives I haven't got to see and introduce Charlie to.  Charlie got to eat cake.  So he enjoyed meeting the people too.

Here is Charlie and Yianni sharing a toy.

Charlie is the big headed one in the front hogging most the seat.

Charlie in the tub...fresh from one hour ago!



We made it to Andrew Alberta in plenty of time for the prayer service.

Charlie got to try out the Andrew play park.



And promptly faceplanted into the tires.

This park was more than Charlie was used to!



Behold!

The mighty Mallard of Andrew!

the biggest in the world according to the sign.

Charlie trying to show the park who is boss.



Charlie with his big cousin Levi.

Levi was an allstar.  I was a pallbearer, so he took most of the Charlie bullets.

Including a few bouts of explosive diarhea.

Thanks for all the help Levi!
I respect you hid from all the poo Niks!
We can't wait for you guys to move to Calgary this summer.

Charlie dissappointed on the cleanliness of his Gido's new fancy deck.

For Shame Gido.

For Shame.



To kill a few hours in the car, we did the ABCs, counted to 10 and learned to wink.

It's more of a scrunch, but he gets the point.



Hey Gido!

Your wood pile is getting low!

There is a separate shed for the wood.  What you see in the background is 10% of the pile.

What are big cousins for?

physical labor.

YEAH MULES! YEAH!



And for showing which bugs are safe to eat.

Here are all my parent's grandpuppies.

Some are bigger than others.

Levi and Niks are the big ones.

Charlie and Ellee are the little ones.



Trying to get everyone to look one way was like hearding cats.

"Now everyone look this way....this way....CHARLIE....ELLEE...THIS WAY...THIS WAY..."



I don't know which one to feed first.