Earth Hour 2009 – Anker House
Elina’s out at a sleep over and we are at home (DH and I) sitting in the dark watching Earth Hour 2009 coverage on CBC Newsworld. Here is a iPhoto snapshot of our evening. Herman added the 2 candles (from Ikea)
March Break
This week Elina had a special week of daycare. She came home completely tired each day after having a special outing each day. She’s excited to get back to her regular routine of school and daycare.
Herman’s working today
I’m relaxing and catching up on some laundry.
I bought myself a new camera and have actually even taken [...]
Spring Has Arrived
Spring has arrived and so has the spring cleaning, Im trying to streamling my organic file system on my anker.ca website as well as incorporate my Stampin’ Up blogging site into the anker.ca domain.
Tecky bla bla I know. What it means for you is really nothing. I’m going to give users the option to enter [...]
Lost Camera
Sad to say I’ve lost my camera and haven’t been able to take photos of anything these past 2 weeks. I’ve got a few projects for my craft site and just fun life stuff passing me by!
I’ll keep searching!
5 Year Old Travels
Elina and I were talking about our trip to Mexico yesterday. I asked her what her favorite vacation so far was and it was, hands-down, Panama. But we also started counting how many countries Elina has visited so here goes:
Canada (Montreal, southern Ontario, etc)
USA (NYC)
Mexico (twice)
Panama
Bermuda
St. Lucia
Cuba
Norway (twice)
Although she only landed in the [...]
Ultra 4
Elina has passed her Ultra 3 test and is moving onto Ultra 4 next session. Tonight Herman and her went for a swim and she passed the deep water test (30 m) of swimming so that she could go down the slide!
Ultra 4
Development of breathing control, entries, deep water techniques, survival skills and front crawl
Introduction [...]
First Sleep-Over
Elina has slept over at a few of her good friends place. Last night she had her first sleep over at our place.
We had a full night planned.
We did manicures
We did pedicures
We watched a movie
We baked cupcakes and they iced them with as much icing as they wanted (oddly, one teaspoon stretched 3 mini cupcakes [...]
Growing Elina
So we’ve started (finally) to measure Elina and mark it on a kitchen wall.
This past weekend she measured in at:
48.2 pounds
3′ 10″ tall
According to Pediatrics in About.com Elina is in the 78th percentile for weight and 82nd percentile for height.
(She’s 21.86 kilo’s and 117 cm tall).
On that same website, when she was 2 years [...]
Supper With Elina
Its a nice little treat for Elina and I to get out of the house when Daddy works. Elina has her swimming lessons on Thursday nights (7:15 to 7:45) so we decided on dinner at Licks. This was taken with my new iPHONE!!!