the latest tooth loss!

I just wrote about Aloka's tooth, and the cool thing she did with it on my other blog (the one i have for my toy store) called "The Meadow". You can pop over to take a look at it here.


Also, the other day, Richard was holding Junie in the kitchen while he was doing something. She started saying "hop, hop, hop!". She says this fairy often actually, so he didn't really pay any attention. She kept saying it though, and he looked up and sure enough, there was a bunny in our yard!

A Moose and a song

I've been wanting to post some videos for a while, and my connection is always so slow. But I managed to do it the other night, so ta da!
The first is a moose that we saw coming home last week (we were going home, not the moose). This moose was only a few km's from our house, and now there have been meese spottings, so it's probably the same one (or from the same herd?). It was very exciting for the girls!



Second video: Aloka has been watching me watch people performing on YouTube (like that Greyson Clark kid for instance) and she decided she wanted to perform on YouTube also. :) Here's her version of White Coral Bells for your listening enjoyment! Is she going to hate me when she's older or what?



And the last video is just a goofy Aloka and a skunky Junie playing. Again, saving this one for the "gonna show your boyfriend when you're 18" collection.

Skiing at home

First of all, I need to apologize for my lack of posting especially lately. I recentely got accepted into the Community Futures Start Smart program which is where they pay me to write my business plan. It's a 10 week program and my plan is due after 8 weeks.
It's incredibly intensive and time consuming. On top of all the research and writing I'm doing, I'm also required to take 10 workshops through the duration of the program, and many of these workshops are all day long.
So, I'm BUSY!! I'm required to work a minimum of 35 hours a week on my business plan, and I'm finding myself in the 40 and 50 hour range, all while taking care of two kids!

And while I'm talking about my business plan, I guess I should mention here that I need to collect at least 50 questionnaires by potential customers, and so far i've only collected 24. If you feel so inspired, it would help me out HUGELY. Click here to go to the survey.

So on with the ski videos! This is just across the street from our house!





This is a really fun ice slide they built at the intersection of Ward and Baker Street, during the Olympic festivities in Nelson: