"I've been workin on the railroad - all the live-long day..."

Buck with his tool belt and drill. He has become quite the construction worker these days. He's especially fond of Grandpa Duke's hammering toy. This picture just makes me laugh.
SDJ got her hair cut while she's been here. It looks similar to her old haircut, but (in her words) 'not as bushy.' She really enjoyed hanging out with my hair dresser, who gave SDJ a coffee mug with the salon name on it - ca va bien.
Buck in the perinniel "yogurt on mouth in high chair" shot. I figure we're good for one a month.
SDJ posing for me. Either that or she's very excited about the butter and sippy cup.
Friday morning (pre-camping), we went to the zoo. There are a lot of photos of both camping and the zoo - so I thought that I'd use them up as the week goes on. SDJ returns home on Wednesday (we're all a little sad about that) and then almost the entire family is off to Hawaii on Saturday!! (we're all VERY excited about that).

We had a great weekend. We were camping up in Banff - it's about 1 1/2 hour drive from here in Calgary. I'll be sure to give more detail as I put up the pics - it was couple of very full days for us. The only drawbacks being that our spot didn't have too much shade (we showed up late) and Buck is still learning how to fall asleep in a tent (we had to use the car trick one night). The mosquitoes were also a pain. I promised Superman M that I would explain that SDJ has gotten about 20 mos. bites since she arrived & that this has made the trip much less tolerable for her :) They do sell these neat "bite pads" here that can be pressed onto the bites to take away the itch. They work alright in my experience - but it's still made the trip harder for SD...

This morning, SDJ is sleeping in and then headig to the local amusement park (Calaway Park) with a crowd of 12 & 13 year old girls who I know from my volunteer work with a teen group. It should be really fun as I'm sure she'll appreciate being with some girls her own age for a change. (I mean, I know it's so fun to hang out with a 2 year old all the time, but it can't last forever, right? ha. ha.)

Buck and I plan to continue my never ending quest for even more groceries and we'll probably get to a mall to see if they have any nice "vacation clothes" on sale for us - yeah!