At work with Dad

So last night we went and met Adam at work. Every Friday they have beers and there's usually some kind of presentation. We got the full tour and Olan got to sit on his Dad's lap and help. It's the nicest office EVER. So fancy-shmancy... open and bight and pretty. What more could you want? Adam ended up giving the presentation and Olan and I went up to his loft office and watched from there, it was fun. Olan (of course) charmed all his Dad's co-workers and boss and didn't spit-up on anyone, what a kid!

This morning we got up waaay too early (thanks Olan) but ended up happily climbing back into bed in a big tangle to have a nice long nap before really waking up. Then we went to the market, got Io some cat grass so he'll stop eating all the houseplants. Then we slooooowly wandered back home with long breaks to pore over books and pretty paper and of course... more coffee, coffee, coffee. Can anyone get enough coffee on a Saturday? Adam's just finishing up Olan's bath and then he'll be off to bed so that the grownups can eat dinner.

In other news

We had a good visit with Aly and Isabelle. My lord that is one sweet little girl. She seemed so much older and it hadn't been that long since we'd seen her! I guess I'd better get used to that since it'll be the norm until she's about 20! She's as funny as ever and is going blond! In other ways she's looking more like her mom too, sometimes I would look over at her and she was just so "Alyson". It's neat to see how they change.

We took both of them to the beach for the first time and they went on the first of many frenchy's trips.

I killed mom's laptop. It will be the most expensive cup of coffee I ever drink in my life! The worst part is that I'm always telling Adam to be careful with beverages around our laptop and then there I go, spilling an entire cup onto mom's ibook. Oh if we had a rewind feature in life!

Other than that, it's freezing frickin cold here. It's made much worse by the fact that it was 10 degrees here on the weekend. Your body experiences that and then figures that it shouldn't ever have to go back. The good news is that it's supposed to warm up again by this weekend.

Dad and I went to see a talk by Alistair MacLeod last night. I guess that he still loves me enough to want to see me. If someone had ruined MY laptop I might never want to see them again. It must be the parent thing, because really, if Olan ruined my laptop, I would still love and adore him just as much.

Adam stayed home with Olan. It was a good talk, that man has such a nice way of writing and speaking. He read one of his short stories that neither I nor Dad had read. It was really good, but sad. We're pretty sure that all his stuff is sad though, and wonder why. It seems that so many writers from Cape Breton only write about sad things. He was actually quite a cheerful funny chap in real life.

Ummmm, what else? Olan is wonderful. All kinds of changes happening with that little boy on a daily basis. He's starting to play with you... anticipating Adam pretending to eat his neck and squealing like a crazy until he does it. It's hilarious. He's enraptured by people eating and tries his hardest to get a hold of my breakfast in the morning. I generally put him in the Jolly Jumper while I eat and he tries to walk across the floor as fast as he can to get to my food before being sprung back. He never loses his determination!

Here's a tubby-tub picture from Isabelle's visit. They might kill us for this one when they're older :)

Rest in peace Peekers

We lost our sweet cat last week. What a hard time it was for our little fam. It seemed as though he had improved for a bit but when we were away at my parents for the night he took a turn for the worse. They still have no idea what was wrong with him and we decided to skip the post mortem... does it really matter now? We buried him at mom and dad's, high up on the hill with a nice soft blanket. Dennis is buried close by. We imagine that Den will be there to show him the ropes up in kitty heaven. I'm sure that mice will be easier to catch in heaven but Pica might still have a hard time :)

We're trying to adjust to life without that cat, but it's early days still. Io is definitely missing him and will sometimes walk around the house calling for him. We're giving him extra cuddles and love and hope that the transition won't be too hard on him. I remember how awful it was for Dennis when Robert went missing.