The ice man cometh...to Kentucky

I may not have been born in Canada, but I am a Canadian so as you can imagine ice and snow don't scare me. That said, the ice storm that recently blew through Kentucky was a real humdinger. Mom and Dad and I spent almost five days without power! After asking dad to turn on Thomas the Tank Engine 50 or 60 times I finally learned a new word - "broke", as in "the TV is broken." No phone, no lights, no television, not a single luxury. That was us from Tuesday evening until Friday afternoon when Dad packed up the truck and drove us to Canada to escape the harsh ravages of winter in Kentucky. Anyway, we did have fun camping out in one bed listening to trees crashing all around us during the night. I kind of enjoyed not having a bath for 4 days (although Mom and Dad claim this was not one of their highlights of the week). Here are some photos to show our non-Kentucky friends (and especially the doubting Canadians!) just how bad it got.



















This is a picture of Mom and I living like pioneers under 4 or 5 blankets. I wore that fleece jacket for 5 days straight.

Great Nanas and Great Grandmas

Hi gorgers,

Sorry about the long gaps between posts. The older I get the busier I get. The busier I get the messier i get. The messier I get the more cleaning Mom and Dad have to do so they have less time to transcribe my musings

These are some photos from Christmas time that I have been meaning to post for a while now. As you know I have two Nanas, but I what you may not know is that I have also have a Great Nana and a Great Grandma and a Great Nanny Mini.

Here I am with my Great Nana in Strathroy. She was lots of fun and had lots of stories about what it was like before the invention of sliced bread.





I spent a lot of time at Great Nana's just goofing around with Grampy Pete and hiding out in my special corner.







Here I am with Great Grandma at my Great Aunt Cathy's house in London. I believe that in these pictures Great Grandma, Mom and I are admiring one of my cousin Patrick's model VW's.





I also got to spend some time with my cousins, Patrick and Heather. When I saw them last month during the ice storm they took me to a really cool toy store. Patrick let me play with his cars!

A night at the museum

Hello gorgers,

Over the Christmas break we visited my Grandpa and Nana (and "more"...that's what I call Aunt Karen and Aunt Meredith) in Ottawa. Ottawa is pretty cool because there are a lot of museums. I was lucky enough to visit two of them - The Museum of Science and Technology and the Museum of Natural History.

The coolest part of the Museum of Science and Technology was the huge Canadian National Railway train exhibit. They were big and cool, but they didn't have faces and cool British accents and none of them knew about the Island of Sodor.





Dad and I went for a joyride



There was a cool slanted kitchen which gave me some trouble at first so Mom had to step in an help me out a bit





Dad found a cool bike



Mom and I went into space



This is Major George to ground control, I'm stepping through the door and I'm floating in a most peculiar way



After the Museum of Science and Technology we went to the Museum of Natural History. Dad and I had a good time looking at all the dinosaurs. We're into that kind of stuff.





I especially liked being fed to this T-Rex



Here I am pretending to be a seal about to be eaten by a polar bear





Science is fun. So long gorgers.

All my little friends

Hello Gorgers!

Sorry for being out of touch for so long. Here are some pics from the Christmas vault.

One of my favourite things about visiting Canada is that I get to see all my little Canadian friends

Here I am with my pal Stephen. He just turned one but he can pet a cat like it's nobody's business. He also has a pretty cool train that he let me play with.





After playing with Stephen in the morning we went to visit my buddies Max and Sofie. Max is a bit older than I am, but we both like Thomas so we get along really well. His dad and my dad do science together.





Last, but certainly not least, we visited my newest friend, Catherine. She's only a few months old, but already I can tell we're going to be buddies. The only thing is that I get kinda upset when my mom holds her. She has her own mom so I don't see why she needs to monopolize mine. What if I need a hug?




See you this summer guys!

Christmas in January - Part deux

After visiting Nana and Grampy Pete, we moved on to Ottawa to visit Nana, Grampa and my aunts for another Christmas extravaganza.



Trying out some new toys in the tub.


Just me... lookin' handsome.


Nana made sure I had berries whenever I wanted them and she let me try a new food called profiteroles, which is a cream-filled pastry covered in hot chocolate sauce.


The chocolate sauce was my favourite part.


I also took the opportunity to practice tinkling the ivories.


Stay tuned for even more adventures from my Christmas trip coming soon.

Christmas in January - Part one

Hello gorgers, here are some pictures from Christmas in the land of snow and ice, Canada!

Walking in snow boots was not my favourite thing but I did manage to do some time on my own two feet. It's hard to walk all bundled up, though.



Here I am hanging out with cousin Mackenzie.


Baby in a box on Christmas morning.


With Grampy Pete.


I slept in a big boy bed for the first time and did very well, thank you very much.


Dinner with Uncle Garrett. We switched after I decided I wanted his instead of mine.


Out with Mom and Dad.


Then I got tired of walking and Dad carried me.


Playing with my new train set from Santa on Christmas morning with Uncle Braden.


More to follow gorgers. I had lots more Christmas adventures so stay tuned.