Welcome to the Lemieux family August07 Fun page.  This month has been a great one with lots of fun, first and friends.

We have been enjoying the rest of our visit with Victoria.  As one of many first that Nyah experienced this month, was skating for the first time.  It was a great time and we had lots of fun.  It was so interesting how Nyah just wanted to skate or should I say run.  She wasn't interested in just walking slowly but instead she wanted to run and skate as fast as she could.  It was hilarious.  I watched her and wondered if little legs should bend like that....  ouch...

At the beginning of the month we camping for the long weekend.  We met up with Darlene, Scott and the girls.  We had a nice time.  It think Victoria also enjoyed herself except for the fact that she was not feeling really great...  Although she was not feeling well, she was able to enjoy a cup of wine cooler and a spider hotdog.  The girls had lots of fun playing with bubbles and the very messy grass pool along with a little play time at the playground.  The campground had a tie dye activity.  Nyah and Victoria each went with their shirt and made some one of a kind art.  It was really fun and cool.

 

After our nice long weekend of camping, Marc and I head off to the movies for a night out for the two of us...  We are headed to see The Bourne Ultimatum.  We were both very excited but when we got to the theater we were disappointment to find out that it was sold out...  So back we headed home..  Which was fine because we then decided to have a girls night...  Marc made the mistake of asking if he was invited, so Nyah gladly included him...  As a girl that is...  So she got him all done up with some make and rolls and a nice pink sweater.  It was so funny.  We did get to go see the movie a few nights later.  It was a great show.  I think one of the best of all three... 

With Victoria still visiting, I took a day off work and we headed off for some shopping.  We both had a wonderful time, looking at clothes, trying on some fun items and being just silly girls.

Before Victoria's visit comes to an end, we pack her and the camper up for a trip to Wiarton, Ontario.  We headed on this trip to enjoy a visit with David and Kathy Graham.  They are a couple that we met while we adopted Nyah.  They were in our group on the trip to China.  They were going to get Georgia.  We also got to visit with Gary and Bihn who also adopted Vanessa.   This was a much awaited visit.  I was so excited to get to spend this extra time with Kathy.  One of the first times I met Kathy, I felt that we had a great connection and as the years have passed it seemed like that connection has grown stronger.  While all the adults were having fun catching up on memories for our trip, we were also getting to know each other more and more.  With all this happening, the girls were having an amazing time playing together.  This was also the first time that they got to hang out without any time constraints.  We enjoyed an afternoon at a local park and a trip to Sauble Beach, which was beautiful.  Oddly, this was our first visit to the widely popular beach.

 

 

As the summer has been passing along, we haven't had much chance to visit with Harm, Parmi and the boys...  So we decided to all head to the beach for lunch and some fun in the sand and surf.  We went to Port Burwell Provincial Park.  Harm and Parmi also had some family visiting from England that joined us.  As you can see it was bit chilly but Marc and the guys had lots of fun in the water and the kids had a wonderful time playing in the sand.  I was a little cold, so my plan was to bury myself, unfortunately I only got my legs done...  It was a lot of fun.

Also I hope you enjoy some extra pictures that were missed in July.  They are pictures of Nyah's first pedicure and some of my birthday cake...

Nyah and I had a nice sweet day.  I took a nice Friday off for the two of us to hang out and have some fun and the first thing on the agenda (pretty much the only thing) was to get some yummy cookies baked, or as Nyah put it - some white cookies.  Our favourite shortbread cookies.  As you can also see Nyah loves to dig right in there and have some fun.  She loves doing this.  We made like 6 or so dozen.  They are one of Nyah favourite and she was sure to make some that were for Daddy, some without Chocolate.  It was a sweet time.

Then that night Nyah excitedly experience another first (and most definitely not the last) her first sleepover.  She had her friends Meagan and Samantha over.  They are children of my great friend, Stephanie.  They always have a great fun playing together.  And as you can see the sleepover was no different.  It was just hilarious watching them dress-up, laugh and play...  They then settled down for some popcorn and a movie (or two).  It was a pretty late night for Nyah, something like 11:00 or so before we headed to bed.  Nyah crashed really fast in bed with Marc.  Meagan and Samantha on the other hand, were up a bit later.  I think they were a little anxious about sleeping in a different house.  So I ended up in the spare room sleeping with them and I think it was like 3:00 AM and Nyah wondered into the room too.  So can you picture all 4 of us sleeping in a queen size bed.  It was pretty funny.

The next morning, the girls were all very surprised by the frozen surprise.  Frozen panties....  It was a riot. 

 

On Saturday, we had a nice visit with Marc's former coworker from Gennum, Mike and Stacy and their little one, Eliana.  Eliana is a few months older than Nyah, so I think they had a pretty fun time playing together.  After our nice dinner, we all bundled up and headed to the Nick's Dragonfly Park.  We all head a great deal of fun and as you can see the Guys also had a fun time. 

And a a change, Marc got to take some really pretty pictures of Nyah...  Like we don't take enough.  ENJOY!

 

As we are ending August, we are also preparing for Nyah's first year at JK.  She will be attending John McCrae Public School.  It is a French emersion school.  As part of prepare for the school year, Nyah and I attended a bus ride program.  It was an opportunity to view a bus safety video featuring Pooh and the gang along with an actual ride on a school bus...  A yellow school bus...  It went fairly well.  Nyah was pretty nervous.  We drove down the road as she held on to my arm seating quietly in the seat.  She was so brave and she made me very proud.

A couple of days later, we attended a lemonade picnic hosted at her new school.  Nyah again was very brave as she headed over to the play area.  I actually told her I couldn't go on the play area too, but I would be right here (I thought the other kids would be uncomfortable with the parents on the play area,  which was not the case), so as were headed closer and I just told her this, she stopped and put her hand on my leg and told me to wait here, that she would go by herself.  That just broke my heart, because she was being really brave (almost like she didn't need me, which we all know is not the case we all need our mommy's not matter what).

Well that is all for our pictures and stories for August07.  Please come back to see the new school pictures and all the other fun times in September07...