Catching Up

Well there are really no excuses for the appalling lack of updates on the Green Family Blog. Timothy is quite cross with his mummy for not keeping everybody up-to-date, and rightly so. I'm sorry! So since the last entry lots and lots of things have happen to the Green Family.

1. Our family is growing.... doughnut #2, or tummy tinkler is expect to arrive sometime in early December.

2. We had a fantastic trip to the London England & Isle of Man in May. We spent time exploring London and catching up with Robert & Rhiannon. Timothy's passion for trains started on this trip - he learned the word and couldn't say it enough on the trip. He is now obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine. We headed over to the Isle of Man to visit Great Grandma Tinkler and celebrate her 90th Birthday with Grandad and Grandma Tinkler. Pretty amazing - three generations of Tinkers in one place! The highlight of this part of the trip for Timothy was riding on the Manx Steam Train. The Isle of Man has many many sheep, this was another new word that Timothy learned on this trip. It didn't quite stick in his vocabulary like trains did.

3. Grandma Green came to visit us late in May and for the month of June to help us out while Timothy's care giver was taking care of her own new baby Ida. Timothy and Grandma had a grand time together going to the park and endlessly walking up and down the driveway pushing his toy lawn mower and wagon. I'm not sure that was as much fun for Grandma as it was for Timothy.

4. At the end of June we had a Green family reunion at the Montreal Jazz Festival. We met up with David, Jennifer and Randy. We had some good times dancing to some great jazz music in the streets of Montreal.

5. In August we visited the Tinkler family clan in St. Catharines where we enjoyed Grandma and Grandad Tinkler's lovely backyard. Timothy overcame his fear of water by running through a sprinkler for the first time! He LOVED hanging out with his cousins Brennan and Benten, often forgetting that Mummy or Daddy were even around! We also enjoyed a very nice family picnic at Niagara-on-the-lake, where hanging out in the wading pool was the best part of the day for Timothy, Brennan and Benten.

6. Also in August we bought a new car! As number two is on the horizon and we are fortunate enough to have both Grandmas’ making frequent visits to the capital city we decided that a larger vehicle was in order. We weren't quite ready for the full-on mini van, but I suppose most people would say we did - we ended up getting a Mazda 5. To me it doesn't look like a big clunky mini van. Ye lot can decide for yourselves and check out the pictures on the Mazda Web site.

7. We were treated with another visit from Grandma Green in September. Being the world traveler that she is, she was stopping in Ottawa before taking off for a European tour with her sister. Timothy was ever so pleased to see his Grandma! Especially when she came back from Europe donning him with many delightful gifts like slippers in the shape of Dutch clogs, a Pinocchio marionette, a teeny tiny double decker bus and a few other fun items.

8. In October we enjoyed a glorious Thanksgiving weekend. The weather was perfect and Timothy was delighted to spend oodles of time with his Cousin Benten as well as Grandma and Grandad Tink. We visited to the Agriculture Museum Farm and much time was spent playing with the cardboard house in the basement or outside in the yard in piles of leaves raked by Grandma and Grandad. Timothy still points to the piles of leaves and says Benten.

9. Well I haven't said much about Tummy Tinkler - all is well with him or her. She/he kicks me on a regular basis. I admit that I am as big as house and look forward to regaining part of my body in 6 weeks time. I can't reach my toes! And yes folks it is only 6 weeks until the big day (December 3rd). I don't think Geoff and I have quite caught on that this is not many months away anymore.

10. Timothy is starting to speak in sentences and sings! His first official sentence was: "I like it in the new car" and his first recognizable tune with words was "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". His language skills are developing at an incredible rate and he is stringing more and more sentences and thoughts together. We'll try to capture some of this on digital video and post... it's pretty sweet stuff.

Well friends & family that it's for now... I will TRY to better about posting our news. We are looking at alternate methods of posting pics as it is painful exercise at the moment to add pics to the blog. So I promise new pictures of the Timbit and the rest of us will be up soon. Really we know you only come to see pictures of Timothy.

Bye for now