Alex is 32!

Third Birthday

This highly anticipated party was a big success inspite of the RAIN. Tara had been practising "baking" cakes and blowing out candles for weeks. We started by ordering our cake from  cake-o-logy again. Here are some pictures:

This is the basement before the party ( we moved it from the backyard with the newly finished playstructure above, because of the weather)

Tara in her new tutu: she got some matching wings for a present from Cameron, her daycare buddy.

The Cake

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There were some crafts and games and rides (mum, tara, cameron, graham, tiernan...)

The kids wore dress up clothes: Tara was an alternative ballerina, Nate was "Super Why", Camaron was a princess, Kadence was Tinkerbell, Ellie was a butterfly, Dax was King and Mikellen, above, was a Garden tot. Graham and Tiernan, refused to give in to such childish silliness and hung out in regular civvies, (even though their parents tried otherwise :-).

then there was cake

and rip and tear of presents and some stories after.

Whew a very long two hours!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TARA!!!

Who's a Natural Teacher?

Alex.

I've been trying to convince him of it for close to 6 years now. Last fall he went back to school for an after degree Bachelor of Education. He's been teaching as a teacher candidate at our neighbourhood juniour high, Ecole River Heights, for the last year now. The kids love him, I gather. Some even want to adopt him for a parent. Much like Tara's class at daycare.Most parents come in to drop off their kids, and they're out the door in 2 minutes. they usually leave their car idling. Alex, as soon as he enters, is coralled and pinned down to the ground by preschoolers. All of them want to be on his knees, shoes, whatever peice of real estate they can find and he's not allowed to leave till he's read them several stories. Tara can sometimes score a place on daddy's lap, but not always. I went with Alex to drop off TSJ this thursday and witnessed it first hand. funny. Notice none of the kids on him are Tara.

Playing Dressup part 2

Lately in April tara has had alot of opprtunities for dressing up like a girl instead of the playclothes (topped with winter clothes) she wears most of the time.

This is what she usually wears. This was taken at the assiniboine zoo. Its not that great but there aren't any other choices. We did see a leopard and a couple of tigers and a bunch of wallabies, Tara was sad to leave at closing time but we told her that the animals needed to go to bed! at 4pm, she was shocked at the early bedtime.

She dressed like presentable kid for Tiernan's birthday. it was a really nice day, warm and dry. The kids played outside till cake time....

Then there was church, she always gravitates to the piano... and last weekend we went to the bengali community's new year clebration potluck with Tara wearing her new Indian clothes, they didn't hold her back from romping aroung. Everybody appreciated the cutie.

Daddy and tara run to mum

Playing Dress-up

Tara loves dress up and halloween and make beleive. She came home as spiderman one evening and it took us an eternity to get that paint off her face.

She was the paper bag princess, as mentioned before, for halloween and loved that costume... her daycare favorite is a beat-up princess costume with a tool belt... go figure, just like mom!! She however was not terribly keen on the lehengas dida got from India, the tops were too tight and they put her off and the skirts got in the way of wild rumpus.