Ryan Age 4

Last birthday at Little Raven

It is finally time to celebrate Ryan’s birthday at Little Raven (birthday party #2 of 3).   Ryan is always so excited to celebrate his birthday with his friends at Little Raven.  We made him a special planet birthday cak…

Daddy’s Birthday

Daddy was very lucky to be able to spend his birthday with his kids.  Sometimes at this time of year he is off on concerts.  Actually, he had to move his adjudicating in Victoria around just to be home on his birthday.  …

Daddy’s student party

At the end of the year daddy invited all of his students over for a BBQ and party.  The kids loved it and were on their special behavior (crazy crazy).  As you can see in the second photo they never miss an opportunity t…

Tofino

Daddy had a concert in Tofino but only agreed to do it if they could put me up in a nice hotel and let me bring my family.  Granted, Grace hated the windy roads but we got there safe and sound.  It was during the big wav…

Ryan’s first time in hockey gear

Ryan was very excited to start playing hockey.  It took us a while but we finally got all of his gear.   Here are a few pictures of him in his hockey gear for the first time.  I’ve also included a short video sample of h…

Ryan’s Lego City

Daddy turned Ryan’s Thomas the Train table into a Lego table for his birthday last year.  Lately, Ryan has really been getting into Lego more and more.  For Christmas Ryan asked for a Lego City Garage from Grace’s Dad.  …

Christmas 2012

Christmas is always such a special time.  It was extra special for us because if was the first one for us in Vancouver.  Ryan was super excited for Santa Claus to come.  He had written a letter to Santa to ask for some L…

Ryan and Sohm go up Grouse Mountain

I’ve been wanting to take Ryan up to the top of Grouse Mountain during skiing season for quite some time.  Grouse mountain has some special Christmas activities with Santa, real reindeer, skating, sleigh rides, skiing, h…

Christmas time is party time

Ryan’s really good friend Ella’s dad owns a bar called ‘Displace’.  Peter (Ella’s dad) invited us to his staff party.  It was a great party with turkey and all of the side dishes.  Fantastic food!  The kids had a blast a…

Our pre-Christmas LA trip (on the way to Hawaii)

On our way to Hawaii we stopped over for 5 days to visit Grace’s family.  It had been a year since all of us had visited so it was quite a special occasion.  Part of the reason for the visit was to celebrate Harabogie an…

Monkey bars

Ryan has been practicing his monkey bars.  His friend Ella has been a strong influence on Ryan wanting to master the monkey bars.  Here we are at the playground in LA.  This is a short video of Ryan’s monkey bar attempt.

Ryan’s note to Santa

One day after picking Ryan up from daycare we went through his creation from clipboard time (the time when the kids rest or create things on their clipboards).  We didn’t catch the importance of what Ryan had written unt…

Movember!!

Sometimes daddy likes to change things up for Ryan and Madeline but in these photos what else needs to be said?

Ryan loves swimming

For a long time Ryan hated getting water on his face in the bath.  It came to the point that it seemed like he was scared of water or putting his face in the water.  We decided to sign him up for swimming lessons and eve…

Fall 2012 Photoshoot

As I’m sure everyone already knows we like to do a family shot for our Christmas card.  We really tried to be on top of it this year.  The leaves were so beautiful in front of our house we decided to do a little photosho…

Sohm and Ryan

Now that Sohm has graduated and moved to Burnaby it is a lot harder for the two kids to get together to play.  Although Ryan and Sohm don’t see each other that often they are still good friends and we try to arrange a pl…

Silly

Ryan is very excited to get his own booster seat (we told him he had to be 40 pounds first) so he is eating up a storm!  We bought a new car seat for Madeline a while back.  In the photo you see both kids look happy, wha…

Ryan and Ella

Ryan and Ella are great friends.  They played at the playground all of the time – almost every day.  They both like to hang from the monkeybars – this is a cute photo of the two of them having fun!

Bug Museum

On our way toHornby Islandwe stopped in Victoria so that daddy could rehearse with his pianist.  While daddy was busy rehearsing mommy took the kids to the bug museum.   We had heard great things about the bug museum in …

Starting to get serious with Lego

Ryan has had his new lego table for a few months now and is starting to get pretty serious about his building.  Lego’s have really helped change the way Ryan plays.  When he gets into his Lego zone we can get up to an ho…

Ryan picking blueberries

Last year we uploaded one of my favorite videos.  It was a video of Ryan stuffing his face with blueberries while we were blueberry picking (here’s a link) .  This year we told Ryan he couldn’t eat any of the blueberries…

Baba comes for a visit!

Baba flew out to Vancouver to spend some time with us.  It was great to have her here and the kids had a blast!  Ryan was very very excited to get some introductory lessons on the violin and listened to Baba very careful…

Mississippi Hot Dog

When Baba came up for a visit I asked her to bring Ryan my old violin (that I started on when I was 4).  Ryan was very excited to play it and to learn from Baba.  They had a really good time together and Ryan wanted me t…

Dentist

Who likes going to the dentist?  Certainly, not me!  But with that said, taking care of your teeth is very important.  Ryan has been an angel about going to the dentist and in some ways actually gets a kick out of it.

Pillow Fight

Ryan has a couple of friends/neighbors kids that are a year older that he likes to play with.  Our next door neighbor Felix and another neighbor just down the street Emily are two kids that Ryan has fun with.  In this vi…

Ryan chilling with his buddies

I thought this was a cool photo.  Ryan is hanging out with his Little Raven friends Julia and Sohm eating a popsicle at the beach.

Ryan shows off his mad biking skills

Ryan loves biking (no kidding!).  It is time we bought him a new bike but until we do Ryan has been trying to scare us with his daredevil abilities.  Here is a quick video of Ryan showing off his biking skills!

Ryan and Sohm

Ryan has quite a few friends from daycare.   One of his best friends is Sohm who is a year older, meaning he will be going to kindergarten this year.  Both Sohm’s dad and I are trying to establish Ryan and Sohm’s friends…

Ryan and Sohm

Ryan has lots of friends at Little Raven (his daycare).  One of his really good buddies Sohm is going to be graduating soon and starting kindergarten soon.  We are trying really hard to try and get them to have a few out…

Ryan is climbing the walls!!

On Ryan’s fourth birthday when I woke him up I wished him a happy birthday.  I followed that immediately by “now that you are a big boy it is time daddy taught you something only big boys can do – it is called climbing t…

Carnival

Last year Ryan and his good friend Ella had a blast at the carnival.  This year they insisted on going together.  I bought Ryan a bracelet so he could go on as many rides as possible.  Ella and Ryan met up with their fri…

Daddy’s Sunglasses look better on Ryan

A little game of hide and seek?

Madeline was playing with her new kitchen when she decided that it might be cute to see what it would be like to go in.

Circus Ryan

There is a posting on Madeline’s blog about Stella’s birthday party.  At this same birthday party Ryan decided he wanted to show off what it would be like to be in a circus.

Daycare buddies

Ryan loves going to Little Raven daycare.  He has made some great friends and the older boys (the one’s that are graduating this year) have become Ryan’s best friends.  It will be a little bit sad when the older boys lea…

Happy #4 Ryan!!

The first thing daddy did when Ryan woke up on his birthday was to give him a big hug and wish him happy birthday.  Following that daddy immediately said “you are a big boy now, you should know how to climb the walls”  a…

Ryan’s sense of humour

I sometimes get a real kick out of the way kids think.  Listen to Ryan’s thoughts on this swing.