I should just mention that we have a room that is over the atrium. It has a little balcony on it that overlooks the interior pool. Very cool! But of course, having boys, the first thing the little ones did while out there was to pull up the chairs and stool and stand on them and nearly give me a heart attack!!
So new rules - no one goes out the front door; no one goes out the back door (without permission) and noone goes wild in the room (ie: jumping on beds and bouncing off walls).
Night Time From Our Room
Dane ran down to the car once we realized we had forgotten the spoons. We bought chocolate milk yesterday, instead of regular milk, so the kids willingly had chocolate milk in their cereal. They also had their little yoghurts and nutrigrain bars. Breakfast in the room.
After breakfast, we headed to the mall to do some shopping. Here you see our helpful big brothers and sister holding the hands and carrying the little ones.
Well, we went shopping instead of the the Zoo or Heritage Park. It was chilly today, and the next few days are supposed to warm up. Corrie found a vendor that did t-shirt prints in 15 minutes! So I got two tshirts for the girls. One for each of them.
They say: Welcome to Canada, Gadisae (or Mesai) and then below that is our family picture holding their photos, and below that it says, Your Family Loves You.
We also got a tshirt made for the girls' mum. It has pictures of the girls, our house (their new home) and the family shot of our family.
Cooper Making Sure Tsega Doesn't Get Lost
Waiting, Waiting, Waiting for the T-Shirts to be Ready
We came home from the mall and fed the children, and then put the little five to bed (and they all fell asleep) and then the older four went down to the Big Gusher Waterslide on their own. They are having a ball.
It is so wonderful because we are now at our fifth family of visiting and in each situation the children just got along like wildfire, right from the get-go. It has been a blessed journey for sure.
8:00 pm
While the little ones were sleeping, the big ones came back because while Dane was going down the waterslide he cut his two middle fingers in a very nasty way. It wasn't deep; it was long (about 1 1/2 inches long) and shallow (about 1/2 cm wide and 1 mm deep). Nasty! Then he had more cuts on the other side and on another finger.
I had to not study the finger too much, while I was trying to decide how to handle it. I knew it didn't need stitches. There was no skin to stitch! It had taken a strip off about 1/2cm wide! While swallowing many times to keep my stomach settled *grin*, I wrapped him up in bandaging and then sent him on his way. We later bought him waterproof bandaging and he was good to go.
Later, we headed to Superstore to buy 'stuff' to make for dinner. We headed back to our rooms and had dinner in our room. Roast chickens ripped apart with sharp knife and plastic forks, caesar salad, and then a semi frozen Grand Marnier cake. Corrie and I had a laugh at that one. The kids picked the cake and we didn't know what they picked til we got home. It was good, but we had to microwave it slightly to remove the frozen middle.
After this Corrie put her little ones to bed, I put my little ones to tv, and the big ones all headed down to the waterslide for another couple hours of sliding. After the kids went to the pool I chatted with Ray on the phone. Briton wanted to talk, but by then Ray had hung up. So I handed him the phone and he commenced to talking to Ray for about 5 minutes - laughing and giggling the whole way through. Obviously, he has seen my handle my phone conversations in a similar manner! LOL!! He had no idea Ray was not at the other end. It was too cute.
Tomorrow we are heading to Calgary Zoo.
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