Allison & Pete's Wedding

Last Saturday, Collin and I attended the wedding of Collin's cousin, Allison, to her fiance, Pete. It was a beautiful day, and the venue was perfect.

The mother of the bride, Margaret (front), and the mother of the groom being escorted to their seats.

The bride and her father.

What a perfect spot to exchange vows!

The happy couple cutting the wedding cake.

The newlyweds!

Yesterday Ronan and I went for a picnic with our friends to Hovander Park in nearby Ferndale. It is an old farm, but it still has a number of animals for the kids to look at: geese, bunnies, roosters, pigs, horses, cows, sheep, etc.

Ronan loves the baby pigs; ask him what a pig says and he says, "ink".

It was feeding time when we arrived.

Ronan with the sheep. He liked the lambs, but he was afraid of the big momma sheep.

The big momma sheep.

Offering a truce to the momma sheep; she could play with his ball if she didn't make loud sounds at him anymore or charge the fence when he walked up to it.

Ronan and friend, Danielle.

A peacock displaying his feathers for a peahen nearby. He was doing a little dance for her as well, which was rather amusing.

Beautiful!

All comfy cozy!

What more could a little man want? - he's got his blanket, his pooh bear and his bottle!

All set to watch Curious George!

As you can tell from this picture, Curious George is very serious business.

Sorry...

...I've been slacking off on posting regularly (I promised once a week). My problem is not that we're not busy enough with fun activities to tell you all about, it's that I forget to take pictures much of the time, and blog entries are no fun without pictures.

I found Ronan in the office the other day. (This is his smile when I say "cheese" - so cute!)

He was hard at "work".

I wonder what this thing is for?

(Later he was holding it up to his ear and saying, "Hell0? OK, bye bye")

Painting

Since he has such fun painting at the one-year-old class that we go to, I decided to get him some paints for using at home. He loves it and gets so excited when I say, "let's paint!"

One of his many masterpieces.

Uh-oh! Ronan checking out the paint that he got on his elbow. Notice the blue paint that he got on his forehead when he was looking at his arm.

Not done yet, Mommy! It needs some more yellow.

Drawing on myself

I was on an important phone call one day, and since Ronan was playing nicely in the living room, I went into the office. After I hung up, I realized that it was quiet...too quiet...

Ronan had a pen and since he wasn't wearing pants, he was drawing all over his knees and legs. He had a wonderful time!

His masterpiece. Too bad it all washed off during his next bath!

The Vancouver Aquarium

One of Ronan's current favorite words is "fish". Since he points out fish whenever he sees them in books and on TV, we thought he'd get a kick out of going to visit the Vancouver Aquarium. He was enamored with all the fish, and spent the entire day pointing and excitingly exclaiming, "fish, fish, fish!"

There were so many fishtanks to see and a wide variety of species to look at.

The jellyfish were my personal favorite.

I don't think he even noticed the other things to look at in the tanks - starfish, living plants, snails, etc.

Meeting the mascot and being deathly afraid of him.

So many fish!

Although he enjoyed the dolphin show more than the beluga show, he loved the underwater viewing of the belugas.