Claire The Doctor

Here is Claire fixing Ryan and his "broken leg". The other two sit there patiently and watch. Sometimes, Charlotte and Ryan are sent to fetch things like stuffed animals to be babies, scissors, markers, glue, tape (loads of tape - I can't find a roll of scotch tape to save my life), kleenex, etc. They play together quite well with a few blow ups and the occasional tears.



Does this look official? Claire is always devising ways to take charge of the play. Sometimes she is a teacher and tries to teach kids their letters, sometimes she is a gymnastics instructor. It's rather cute because the other kids fall into it but she consumes a great deal of printing paper and other materials.

After great delay, here are some pictures of our children. At least the ones who are still wanting their pictures taken. These were taken at a park in Napanee, the day after some heavy rain. A little messy but the kids still had fun.



The three of them often do a slide train. It generally works out - you get the odd injury and Ryan does get upset because he likes to monopolize the front.


This is Claire swimming in my parents' pool. Claire took two sessions of swim lessons this summer - the first session she was a little scared of the deep end but by the end of the second session she was doing really well. The weekend this picture was taken, she was able to jump off from the diving board and swim to the shallow end. You could tell she was nervous at first, but she was really pleased with her accomplishment.