We went on our annual family vacation to British Columbia this year. My parents have a cabin at the Shuswap Lake, and are very generous in sharing it with all us kids! Arvid's parents live in the Fraser Valley, and we try to visit them there each summer, too. This year, we combined the two trips, spending 4 days at the cabin, then driving on for 4 days with Arvid's family.
I had every intention of doing several vacation posts, or at least writing down a few things each day to share, but it was a really low-key vacation, so I didn't make many notes. The most eventful day was the first day. The kids were great for the 8 or so hours in the car, with only a few fights. Henrik growls. Bryn doesn't like Henrik to growl. So she screams at him to stop, then continues to cry and scream when he doesn't stop. It was a lovely half hour, but in all the trip was surprisingly calm.
Then we arrived at the cabin. The first thing Henrik did was fall halfway down the main stairs. They're carpeted, with good padding underneath, so he wasn't really harmed. A few minutes after he calmed down from that fright, he ran head-long into the edge of a door. A very solid door. This is the result. The good thing is that he got most of his injuries out of the way on that first day, and did pretty well until the last full day there, when he managed to topple the high-chair over backwards! What am I going to do when this boy starts really climbing on things!
Bryn loved the lake. Well, not the lake so much. The weather wasn't super hot, so we didn't spend much time in the water. But she loved the toys and playing outside on the deckm especially with Grandpops. On that first day, Grandpops found a tiny frog outside and asked Bryn if she wanted to see it. Bryn's response: "Yeah! The frog won't lick me because I am not a fly!" Yeah, she has some pretty serious critter phobias, but at least she looked at the frog with Grandpops!
I had every intention of doing several vacation posts, or at least writing down a few things each day to share, but it was a really low-key vacation, so I didn't make many notes. The most eventful day was the first day. The kids were great for the 8 or so hours in the car, with only a few fights. Henrik growls. Bryn doesn't like Henrik to growl. So she screams at him to stop, then continues to cry and scream when he doesn't stop. It was a lovely half hour, but in all the trip was surprisingly calm.
Then we arrived at the cabin. The first thing Henrik did was fall halfway down the main stairs. They're carpeted, with good padding underneath, so he wasn't really harmed. A few minutes after he calmed down from that fright, he ran head-long into the edge of a door. A very solid door. This is the result. The good thing is that he got most of his injuries out of the way on that first day, and did pretty well until the last full day there, when he managed to topple the high-chair over backwards! What am I going to do when this boy starts really climbing on things!
Bryn loved the lake. Well, not the lake so much. The weather wasn't super hot, so we didn't spend much time in the water. But she loved the toys and playing outside on the deckm especially with Grandpops. On that first day, Grandpops found a tiny frog outside and asked Bryn if she wanted to see it. Bryn's response: "Yeah! The frog won't lick me because I am not a fly!" Yeah, she has some pretty serious critter phobias, but at least she looked at the frog with Grandpops!
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