This is what I wrote on our 12 day trip to Tumbler Ridge. It's actually only one post so tomorrow after work or on my swing day, I'll type up a bit more of our holiday ... but for now... This is what I wrote up while I was in TR.
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Today we drove to Nanny and Grandpa's -- or as Lincoln calls him Grandfathers. On the way, I stopped to buy a box of timbits. I just bought an assorted box, except, I specified not the kind with raisins. I hate those kind. Lincoln really only likes the chocolate ones. So anyway, he asked if he could have some so I handed him back the box. The first one he took was a chocolate one. For some reason, Tim Hortons has a new chocolate tim-bit and in the middle of the chocolate one was some kind of strawberry cake mix. Lincoln was not impressed. He quickly told me how unpleased he was by this discovery and passed the half bitten tim bit up to me to try. It wasn't that bad. Lincoln then says, "Hey, Mommy! I got a great idea."
"Oh, do you? What's your great idea?"
"Well, I could take a bite of all the donuts and if I don't like them, then I could put it back in the box and then you can have it later. Isn't that a good idea?"
Well, I explained to Lincoln that no, in fact it was not a good idea. I don't mind sharing with him but if you put half eaten donuts back, the middles dry up and they are no good. He thought it was brilliant and I felt a little bad having to ruin his great idea.
Lincoln fell asleep soon after that. Then a few hours later when he woke up, he asked me if I saw any animals while he was sleeping. I had not and I told him that.
His response was one of disbelieve. He looked at me and said, "Really Mommy, not even one little old deer."
We got to Tumbler and went to see Lincoln's new baby cousin. He was pretty darn cute and sooooo tiny. Lincoln asked if we could take him home. He was a bit disappointed when he was told no.
We also went for a drive around town. Mom and Dad were pretty excited to show Lincoln a few things. There are these wooden little people that are bent over so all you see are their legs and bums. Lincoln calls them 'the bodies.' They are taken in during the winter and put them out in the summer, so it's been a while since he's seen them and he was pretty excited about it.
There is also new little thing that thrilled Lincoln. Over in the trailer park there is another wooden outline in the garden. This one is of a little boy with his back to us, he's propped against a tree and he's going pee so his pants are around his ankles and his little naked bum is out there for everyone to see. Lincoln thought this was amazing. He laughed and laughed quite a bit.
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Day Two.
Today we went swimming. I had called to see if Lincoln's cousins wanted to come, but they were going to their mothers so we went alone. Lincoln had a very good time. He went down the big green slide by himself, which was a bit of a big deal. The last time he went down it, he bonked his head on the bottom and he's been a bit scared of it since. So, today, I told him that he was bigger and if he went down it, he wouldn't bonk his head and we'd go to the trailer court after the pool so he could look at the little boy peeing.
He went down the slide. Then he went down the slide again. And again. And again. And again. He had a great time. He must have gone down that slide about 50 times. Then we went outside and he climbed on this big netting thing. He had a a lot of fun on that as well. I should have brought my camera, but I wasn't expecting to go on it. So, after the pool and the climbing we made a loop past the peeing little boy. Lincoln laughed again. He thought it was hillarious and then he said, "Mommy, if that boy was turned around to the road, it would be rude, right? Cause people don't want to see people's pee."
That wasn't what I though he was going to say, but it worked. That reminds me of another time, I don't think I've written about this before, but it was pretty darn funny. It was a few years ago, I think Lincoln was just over 2, maybe 2 and a half or so. We were having a bath and I had just wet my hair and pushed it all back from my face. Lincoln was sitting at the other end of the tub. He looked at me and, as though he'd only just noticed, he said, "Mommy, you have ________ " Now before I tell you what he actually said, I feel that I should say this. We were in the bathtub. We were naked. There were no bubbles. You can imagine what I expected was going to come out of his little lips.
He said, "Mommy! You have ears!" I was fully expecting him to say another part of my anatomy, that's for sure. Ears would not have been on that list. I don't know why he suddenly realized that I had ears on that day. I would have to say that I have my hair pulled back and in a pony tail at least 75% of the time. Probably more, because I very rarely leave it down. I'm sure he'd seen my ears before so I have no idea why suddenly one day while we're having a bath he realizes that I have ears. It was pretty funny.
So, back to today. We went to the pool and had a good day all in all. Lincoln was a little fussy near the end of the day, but otherwise, all in all, it was a good day. He spent a fair about of time outside in the afternoon 'helping' Nanny. He had the hose and he washed the headlights on her van. Washed the swingset. Washed the house. And his favorite part, was the big puddle he ended up making from all his 'washing'. I took his pants off of him and let him play in his undies and-tshirt. He thought that was pretty good fun. Once he was done, I brough him in and he went straight into the tub. After supper, he went over to his uncle's house and picked raspberries with his Nanny. He was quite proud of his berries too. Although, he did come running back home part way through and ask me to go fill up his raspberry bucket, because he was too tired. He went to bed just after that and pretty much just crashed.
Tomorrow, we're going to head off to Grande Prairie for the night. It should be pretty fun. They have a fantastic pool there and the last time we went, Lincoln had a great time. He's pretty excited to be going back there again.
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