I Had a Clever Title but...

Just a little bit of dissipation over here... Tired. But things are very good. I got my permanent residence visa last Monday and on Friday, I went to Maine to come back into Canada, thereby activating my new visa status.

As is the way in Autumn, at the ME/NB border, there were 7 obese US hunters in line ahead of me. They were registering their weapons. And then, the guy right in front of me was a US citizen who'd "gotten in trouble up in Centreville for buying liquor for minors." Guy was at least 40 - minors here, would have to be... 18 or younger. What a cool guy!

Burl is mimicking almost everything Ivo does - good and bad, safe and trecherous. Very cute. He understands everything said around him and if something has snything to do with him or holds any interest for him, he raises his hand or points at his chest! So we're thinking Burl may not ever need to use words cuz his self-developed sign language is awesome. When he wants to go somewhere he points out the window at the car "DE!" and then turns an imaginary steering wheel!!!

Ivo told Burl tonight, "Burly, I gotta tell you something" -at this point, Ivo held Burl's head in both his hands and turned it so they were eye-to-eye - "...you can't watch Tubbies tonight but you can watch it tomorrow morning." Ivo's new favorite song is "Head, shoulders, knees and toes." He's heard it before but only really learned it this week at school.

Ryan is starting to get some grades back - and it's all A's, baby! Comments like "Classroom ready!" appear on the curriculum he wrote, to name just one of his triumphs:) Yay Ryan!

These are pics from last Wed, 24 Sep on the old RxR bridge where the Meduxnekeag meets the St John. It was such a beautiful day - lots of spider webs on the bridge with spiders to investigate.

Oh yea, can anyone tell me/us how the abc song is sung in Canada? Specifically this part, "...w, x, y and zed. Now I know my abc's, next time won't you sing with ____?" Who -Ted? Fred?