Well we had a great Canada Day again this year. It started out with a twist…Edzea didn’t like the shirt I had gotten her. It was too big so we went searching for last year’s shirt. It was too small. So I had a sleeveless white tank for her that she thought we could design a maple leaf on. I said, no problem, after breakfast we will work on it. She took the shirt and ran out of the spare room where I had all of her old clothes stored. I was just putting away some of the clothes when I proceeded to her room where she was at her desk drawing a RED maple leaf on her shirt in red marker…needless to say…she was in trouble! for not listening BUT I was impressed with her confidence and ability to try and do a maple leaf. The issue was that I told her she was NOT to do it until after breakfast with ME. So we had some drama, some time out, some BIG tears until we later painted over her design with fabric paint and she was happy as a clam with her homemade t-shirt.

We stayed at home for the morning as the festivities in Stittsville don’t begin until 3pm. We let the kids have later, longer naps so that we could attempt to keep them up for the fireworks this year (Neve dependent). Anyways, we headed out at 5pm with our picnic dinner, our lawn chairs and Canada Day outfits. We found a great place in the shade in front of the stage and were met by Allan & Katherine who had already been at the big festivities downtown on Parliament Hill.

Later on, Amanda, Paul & kids joined us. It was almost like being in Yellowknife except that we all agreed…the BUGS were WAY better here!

The kids had a great time and Neve fell asleep at about 7pm and was passed around from person to person throughout the evening. She woke up when the fireworks began!

An Asian lady was fascinated with Neve. She couldn’t really speak english and we could tell she was itching to take photos of the Canada Day baby…who was in a red/white striped onesie. She finally just started snapping away (without asking…cultural difference!! ha ha). Of course, we had no problem with it but it was so funny that she had NO idea that you don’t do that here.

Kids had lots of fun and so did we.

Will write more about the rest of our weekend when I’m not so pooped.