This week I met lots of aunties, uncles, and cousins.

On Saturday night we went to a pig roast at uncle Devin’s and auntie Wendy’s house.  It was an actual PIG on a spit, with ears and feet!! Too bad I’m not on solids yet 😉 

Their yard is so fabulous… It’s lit up like a magical kingdom and I made friends with the dog and the bats. I wish mommy and daddy had a super garden oasis like theirs.

You can see that all my aunties took good care of me and protected me from the crazy lightning storms that night.

Aunties Darcy, Rebecca, and Kara

I was so comfy on Auntie Rebecca’s lap that I went limp like mommy’s hair.

This weekend was Auntie Kara’s birthday party, and I met uncle Rob and auntie Darcy. We went boating from North Vancouver to Stanley Park and Coal Harbor…  what a view of the city! Now I understand why mommy and daddy miss it so much. It was fun meeting my new friend Liam, my intellectual equal (adults are so silly!).

I also met daddy’s auntie Irene and uncle Larry, who somehow knew exactly what I wanted: a bouncer! I’ve been in it ever since, because why would you leave a vibrating seat!? The only time I leave my bouncer is to have my diaper changed because it shakes the poo right out of me.

 Cousin Courtney is so beautiful… I wish I had a nice picture of the two of us together! Here’s uncle Brad and cousin Cam, on daddy’s side.

 Cam is super cool… he’s so athletic on a snowboard or a bike. If only we lived closer to my cousins…

We took Grandma to our property at campers’ paradise and had a bonfire. I wore my furry coat with ears that auntie Lisa bought me. I lounged in our hammock in the woods, looking like a baby bear cub.

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve made a post. We’ve been so busy this past week! Daddy and uncle Bob hauled out the boat to repair the damage from the Tsunami. They worked on it for 4  days in Moss Landing, which was a bit of a holiday for mommy and me. It was fun living in the boatyard… I liked taking walks to the Haute Enchilada and the farmer’s market, and listening to the sounds of the fishing boats and fog horns. Look at the fine paint job they did:

The return trip to Santa Cruz was not much fun…  it was so rough that we had to power instead of sail, and it was too dangerous for me to be up on deck, so mommy and I stayed in the aft cabin on top of pillows to take the impact of the waves.  I didn’t get sea sick, but mommy did.

The sailing trip to Capitola with auntie Kara and uncle Ryan was a blast! All the fishermen at the wharf were so happy to finally meet me, having shuttled mommy and me from the boat to land many times when we were pregnant. Look at the pretty pictures of the Capitola wharf that uncle took with his fancy new camera:

Capitola Wharf

Uncle Bob sailed his boat single-handedly! Isn’t it a classic?!

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The weather and wind was perfect. Daddy and uncle Ryan got badly sunburned, but I got just the right amount of sun. It feels so good to tan nude (to get some air “down there,” if you know what I mean). 

We had gallons of mimosas for breakfast, and then it really started to feel like a holiday! I’m going to miss auntie Kara… she is obviously more skilled at motherhood 😉

Auntie Kara and mommy

The sailing trip back was great fun! Thankfully, daddy put the peanut butter cookies away and focused on teaching auntie and uncle to sail 🙂 I loved the sea lions at the 1-mile marker, but was a bit scared of the fog ninjas.

Daddy and auntie Kara

Air drying