Spring

Spring is finally here! The snow is slowly melting away from our deck and backyard which means we’ll soon be able to take Emma outside to play. I can’t wait to go play outside with her. Spring is my favourite season of the year. You can finally throw away your winter boots, open the window, go outside and smell the fresh air. For my husband it means that the bugs are about to return and the hockey playoffs are about to start, but for me it means warm weather and eating outside.

Since we haven’t been able to go outside much in the past few weeks, we have been staying inside and have been working on Emma’s new skills such as: spaghetti eating, pea picking, crawling and as of today ... refrigerator exploration!

Last Sunday Emma paid a visit to her grand-father.

And today was also his 71^st birthday so we went for cake and coffee. Emma’s grand-mother and aunt just came back from Europe where they spend time in Holland, where her grand-mother is from, so she received gift from her aunts and uncles over there and we got some yummy goodies (stroopwafel, speculaas and mergpijpjes)! I’m hoping to take Emma to Holland soon to visit and show her where her grand-mother grew up.  Spring is supposed to be gorgeous in Holland. Maybe next spring we’ll go visit and we’ll take some photos of the windmills, tulips and all the other things Holland is famous for. Uncle Frans here we come!