It's All a Long Weekend

It's Tuesday morning. We've just finished banana pancakes at the lake. Yum!

The boys LOVE being at the lake. BIG thunder storm last night - electricity went out for a couple hours.

Ivo and I walked up to the community grange/lodge/center the other day to play at the playground. It probably takes 25 minutes - when a 3 year old is walking it - all gravel roads, evergreen canopy, wild daisies, wild carrots, bees and butterflies. Ivo said, "You SURE dis is da right way?"

Ivo and Burl made a fire and roasted hotdogs with Grammie Gail and Ryan. Ivo wants to know, "What smoke made of?" He was very interested in the whole procedure. He'd never seen a match before - not in real life, anyway - he has a book that compares the size of the smallest mammal in the world to that of a matchstick. Later he told Gail, "I a dragon. I shoot fire outta my mouth. Next time you don't have fire - you ask me."

A little more Ivo Overheard:

• "I don't like towels on chairs." He has said this several times, different days - it's getting funny. This house is 2 meters from the lake. There will be towels on chairs...


• "We all a flamily in da rocks."


• (To Burl) "Show me your funny face." - everyone laughs - (To everyone else) "Check my funny face - better dan Burly's"


• (While sitting on the toilet) "Papa, can you read me a story 'bout a boy walking in da forest?" While yr pooping? "Yea." No! "But... Grammie Gail did it." Well, grammies are very special people.

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Yesterday, Little Burly turned 17 months old!!!

Burl is a very happy boy. He loves his family and when one person is missing, he stretches his arms out and asks "deeeh?" in a very hi-pitched, rising tone, with a concerned look on his brow. Burl is sooo close to talking, his babbling has the inflection of real conversation, tho, so far, he only says, "uh oh," "no, no, no," "bao-bao," "up," "ba-ba," "mama" and a bunch of de's, duh's, da's. Amazingly, though, he makes himself understood. For example, when he wants milk in his cereal, he points at his bowl and says, "duh!" (rising pitch - command mode). Burl also can kiss:)

Click here for video of Ivo the Green Dragon and Burly the "10-year-old Dragon."