Here’s a look into the past few days here in London…

We had some reeeally hot days this week.  It was above 30 a couple of days in a row.  The kids enjoyed some time in the paddling pool and managed not to get too much of a sunburn.  Kieran thought it was the greatest thing. 

And here is Avery in “Diva” mode.  I’ve posted pictures of her wearing the sunglasses before but I thought this picture was too cute not to post.  And below we have the kids’ first ride on a “motorcycle” at the park.  Avery went a little nuts with the whole thing, as you can see.  This is at the park that I had mentioned before where there are Canada geese everywhere and beautiful walking trails. It is a lovely park and we went there for a picnic supper last night.  We fed the geese bread and Kieran wanted to get as close to them as possible because what is more exciting than a big furry animal that is close enough to touch?  We were literally being swarmed.  We had to start pushing them away because the adult geese were getting a wee bit aggressive.  But I totally loved it.  I find that kind of thing so much fun.  It’s cool to be able to get so close to these animals.  They are really pretty and the babies are so cute.

As you can see here there were big families of geese everywhere. If I had turned 180 degrees and taken another picture there would have been at least as many geese.  It was really amazing.

When we sat down to eat our picnic (a safe distance from our feathered friends) this little squirrel watched us, trying to get as close as he dared.  If Kieran could just figure out this walking thing he would have been all over that squirrel like white on rice.  He points his fat little finger at anything that excites him these days and shouts out funny little exclamations of gibberish.  It is quite funny.  This kid has got to learn to walk and talk.  On the other hand then I am in for some real trouble!

Here we can observe Avery getting a nature lesson from her bonafide Chief Scout father who knows a lot about these things. 

And maybe this is kind of geeky? But I am so pumped to see real maple leaves.  I absolutely can’t wait until the fall when they turn red. I think that will be so neat. They are everywhere in London and I think fall will be absolutely beautiful.  You can expect lots of posts with maple leaves/trees in the fall.
 
   

I get made fun of because I take about a hundred pictures that to most people would seem like almost the same pose and I really try to trim the fat and delete bad pictures but I often keep a lot that have only minor differences.  Because this one shows off his chubby little cheeks so well and this one captures his expression just right and look at the way his hands are in this picture!  I know they look the same to you. But look closer!  Anyway, this picture of Kieran is one of those.  And the other picture is the kids at the playground at Gibbons Park here.  Immediately afterwards we were pecked to death by geese and then the goslings pecked the flesh from our bones.