The last month

I know that 0 degrees Celsius will bring snow, slush and dirty vehicles and that it won’t stay, but we are enjoying the warm weather today. I took L to the community centre before lunch and he had another chance to practice skating. There was a light layer of snow on parts of the ice surface and K had a blast just running. This worked well for L’s learning because when he forgot himself in chasing K he did pretty well.

So other than this warm day my kids are adapting fairly well to being Manitobans. Daddy and L went for a walk the other night to burn off some of that cabin fever, K had to stay home with me. She spent the entire half hour getting dressed to go outside. At various points she had mittens and L’s rubber boots on as well.

L was not wanting to wear his long johns the other day, I told him he needed to because it was minus 30 outside. He replied “Yours is 30 mine is (minus) 1”.

Our basement has been usable for a few weeks now. There are still bits and pieces that gradually find a home, but for the most part it is a great improvement. The kids enjoy playing downstairs; K likes to just run around (although the slope in the floor is a challenge) and L likes the fact that he can drive his remote control truck around or set things up and play with them for a few days before he has to clean them up.

K is taking to colouring or playing with her brother’s playdough. For a kid who doesn’t sit still for a story it amazes me how long she can sit at the table and play. I guess it doesn’t seem long when you are busy talking on the phone.

I enrolled L into Kindergarten yesterday. It doesn’t feel real just yet, but I don’t really look forward to it. Yes it will be exciting, but it is nice having him around too. We chose a French Immersion school for him. L already knows the Kindergarten curriculum: the alphabet letters and phonetically, he has started printing and he has some basic concepts of addition and subtraction. As Lowell said French Immersion might not help him, but it won’t hurt him.