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Gotta Dance

By Granny,on December 21st,2012%

Matty loves to dance.

Warning:High pitched shrieks.

By Granny,on June 1st,2012%

Recently my daughter did a video of her children as they watched it. I still think they are both adorable even with the squealing.

Squeals of Delight

Mathias –Hockey Boy and Timelapse

By Granny,on January 12th,2012%

Two new videos of our Matty. The first shows what a huge Vancouver Canuck fan he is and the second is a timelapse from birth to now.

Hockey Boy

Mathias’Time Lapse

Visiting Santa

By Granny,on December 7th,2011%

Matty loved meeting Santa while Jedda was a bit unsure of the whole thing.

Post Halloween

By Granny,on November 4th,2011%

Once again it was a quiet Halloween at my house. Not a child in sight.

My sister and her husband make up for it. They love to decorate for Halloween. Here’s a link to a little tour of Castle Hope.

This year was the first year that Matty went trick or treating. Since he loved last year’s Dragon costume so much,he got to wear it again though he refused to wear the head. And our precious little girl became a Halloween Teddy Bear.

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Halloween is close approaching

By Granny,on October 21st,2011%

Looking back to my own childhood, I remember going off to trick or treat. When I was about 6, I went as Zorro but I insisted that I needed to wear earrings. Later when I was between 8 and 10,we lived in a community in North Vancouver called Norgate park. My favourite stop was at the house at the end of the block where the woman made candy apples and she would invite us in and we would see her making them and then she would let us choose which one we wanted. Yum. So good. Not sure that people can do that anymore. Still remember wondering if she would notice if I knocked on her door twice. Then when I turned 10,we moved to a new neighbourhood in Upper Lonsdale,where we were told not to knock on the door of the house kiddy corner to us. The people were mean and a ghost lived there. Or so the story went.

Then I was a mother and we moved to a small island. In the 23 years here, I have only had kids knock on my door maybe twice. The tradition here is to go to the Halloween party put on by the Firemen. They have hot dogs,hot chocolate and a huge roaring bonfire. There are games and contests for the kids and believe or not,the first year we went, I won the prize for best costume. I did make a very good witch. <grin>

The photo next to this,is my daughter,the Halloween Leopard,which I think was 1988. Most years,we would celebrate the day at the Firehall but on occasions,we would find our way off island and she would be able to experience trick or treating.

Matty was a dinosaur last year.

I am really looking forward to this year. I have already tried to convince them that Halloween on Mayne Island is the place to be but unfortunately this year it’s on Monday and messes with work schedules etc. And I forgot to mention that Halloween party always ends with fireworks which are organized and set off my my son in law’s brother,Per. Click here to watch it.

My Genius Grandson

By Granny,on October 20th,2011%

My daughter has been telling me lately that Matty has been obsessive with letters lately. Her friend had bought him a game with all the letters of the alphabet where you can take the letter out of the game and then put another one in and a voice says the letter over and over again. I’m told that suddenly Matty twigged to the fact that there are letters everywhere and he has been saying the letters that he remembers when he sees them.

So today,she posted a video that shows our clever little boy saying most of the alphabet. CLick the link below to check it out.

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