September

Hard to believe September has been and gone.

The leaves are starting to change colour and there was frost on the car the other morning. brrrr

September began with our WONDERFUL friends Jenny and Glen welcoming baby John William into the world...he is sooo cute! Holding him makes me even more excited about holding Blister (baby lLister) when he/she is born in March.

Jenna started Grade 1 in the 2nd week of September and she is loving it, she has a great teacher again this year - well this term anyway - we are leaving after term 1. She is doing really well with her reading and I love sitting with her listening to her read ME a story for a change!

1st day of school.

Jenna also started Ice skating again and is now in level 3 which is all about skating backwards, she is doing really well at that as well and can skate backwards and do a jump!

The girls officially became Canadian citizens this month - dont you just love their mug shots!

We had Fun getting lost with the Georges at the Lesters Farm Corn Maze. Abby was obsessed with the Corn and wanted to take it all home with us.

Abby is getting so big, I cant believe she will be 4 in a few months, and believe me she is getting an attitiude to match! We have fun just the 2 of us while Jenna is at school, I think her starting school in February will be harder than when Jenna started...might be a few tears I think - from me not her - she cant wait!

Jenna finally decided she wanted to get her ears peirced - because I told her she wasnt allowed to - gotta love reverse psychology.

September 21st bought with it Hurricane Igor. He did huge amounts of damage throughout the Province and isolated over 50 communities from the rest of the island. I must admit that when I first heard school was being cancelled because there was going to be strong winds - I was a little annoyed, I was quite vocal in saying "Come-on people toughen up it is just a bit of wind and rain" . Let me tell you that when Igor arrived I was bloody glad that I didn't have to go to school to pick up Jenna. We lost our power at 3pm on Tuesday and didnt get it back until about 9pm Wednesday - not fun. When you dont have power it makes you really aware of how reliant we are on it, we had no stove, no hot water, no lights (obviously), all the traffic lights were gone and became 4 way stop signs and of coure there are idiots out there who just dont get how 4 way stop signs work. It was really cold as well and we had no heat - by Wednesday afternoon it was actually warmer outside the house than it was inside the house so we went up SignalHill with coffees and hot chocolates and waited for the sun to go down, then went home to the dark house - I realised it would have been a good idea to get the kids pj's out before it was completely dark in the house...that would have just been too smart. The photos below are of our evening at Signal Hill adn some of the destruction around town. It was amazing to see these huge trees lying on their side...they have such shallow root systems because the ground here is always so wet they dont have to go deep like the trees at home to get to the water. A week and a half later there are still trees down allover the place and aparently it will take till Christmas to clear them all away. Alot of people around the bays lost so much, we were really lucky - all we lost was the power and the phone and the basement had about 2 inches of water in it (but that is nothing unusual)

So now October is here, the girls are super excited about Halloween and already have their costumes picked out! Jenna is going to be a withch and Abby is going to be a unicorn. I cant wait to go trick-or-treating - it will be my first time as well!

I cant believe I am actually going to say this, but I am actually looking forward to the cold weather and I hope we get heaps of SNOW (I am ducking now) because I want the girls to be able to play in it heaps before we go...so let it snow let it snow let it snow!!!