First Public Swim
I took Evelyn swimming for the first time at a public pool last week. She went in our pool twice last summer but very briefly as it isn't heated and she was still so little. We went to the Splash Wave Pool (non wave hours) with Roya and her little guy Ronin who's now four months. The babies loved the water and to our surprise happily played for an hour and a half. And entry fee is only $1.90 - win!
Cameras aren't allowed in the pool area but they are in the changing rooms? Snapped a few pre-swim photos.
Date with Caleb
I spent Sunday afternoon shopping with my boy. We were also supposed to go skating together but time flew by and that never happened. So Caleb's in this weird in between size for pants. I've bought him a few recently but they're too long for him, and his other pairs that are of proper length are getting too tight at the waist. His tops are also used and abused, several of them with holes. All to say, his wardrobe was getting quite ghetto and we decided to revamp it.
We also got both of our skates sharpened at the mall since Caleb will be going skating with his class this Tuesday.
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| Having a phone camera means so many more Caleb pictures because he has no idea I'm taking them! Mwuahaha |
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| This is about halfway through trying on a dozen pairs of pants - he decided to make yes/no/maybe piles |
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| I still had brown pennies in my wallet - what else are they good for now? |
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| We took the bus so Darcy could have the car for errands |
Capital Geek Girls Official Launch Party
CGG is a local fan club for geeky girls that's been hosting neat events and publishing interesting articles for about a year now. Yesterday they hosted an official launch for their blogazine. It took place at the Future Shop on Merivale, had roughly 80 people in attendance and featured videogames, boardgames, snacks, Comic Book Shoppe products, and good ol' fashioned mingling.
Somehow I missed the call for writers for the blog which kinda saddens me. They do accept one-offs so I submitted something for consideration over the weekend. I have many other ideas for articles so I'll see if there's interest. I did meet a handful of the writers at the launch and it was neat that a lot of them are 30-something year olds with families and similar interests.
The success of this group brought home to me how much the
Ottawa Geek Social Club, which I run with a few people, is in need of revamping. Going to work on some ideas in the near future.
Oh, a very neat thing: Chrissy, an old mommy group friend of mine and also my former Usbourne Books boss, recently started a bakery catered to all things geeky called
Cici & co - a bakery. Very neat endeavor and I look forward to supporting it!
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| I like their branding |
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| A reason to wear my Knights of Good t-shirt and d20 necklace I got for Christmas (not that I needed a reason!) |
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| My date! |
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| Chrissy's cuppycakes - yes, the tops were edible |
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| Nomnomnom |
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| Super Mario Brawl |
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| I remembered the pain of the Nintendo 64 analog stick |
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| Explaining how to play King of Tokyo |
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| Hashtagged for the first time in hopes of winning tickets to Comic Con (I didn't win but didn't mind promoting CGG anyway) |
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Evelyn Takes a Stand
Look what Evelyn started to do just this morning!
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| Most of the pictures were blurry because I didn't want to go to leave arms reach for long! |
Miscellaneous
Liana has a math tutor from
Tutorat-Est. She meets with her at the local library on Mondays and so far it's going well. Liana's also had a group of friends over a few times to work on an movie project for English class - hoping she lets me share the final products when it's completed.
We're trying a new no bark product for Dexter. It's the
Dog Silencer Pro. It emits sonic and ultrasonic waves when barking occurs. It's supposed to take 2-3 weeks to work so we'll see how it goes. There's a 45 day money back guarantee so we figure we have nothing to lose.
