Yippee! It's April!

Here are a few things to be happy about in my little world:

*Dan and I bought tickets for the September performance of Yo Yo Ma with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra! I'm so excited to actually sit in the presence of greatness and soak it all up like a greedy little sponge (a clean one though, as I tend to think of sponges as dirty little objects). Oh, sure, we're sitting behind the stage, because that the only section left with two seats together in it (in less than 2 hours of the tickets being on sale), but we'll still be right there! Close enough to spit on the orchestra! No worries. We'll behave.

*I attended my first-ever deep water aquasize class tonight with Angie and Crystal. Wowsa. Don't ever think those classes are for the "slightly inclined." Oh no. It's hard-core. Who knew? But it sure felt amazing... and equally awful. : ) My favourite was the buoyancy belt that you get to attach to your waist and float upright without the use of your arms or legs. Don't worry though: those legs and arms were busy doing their own things. Fast. And hard.

*Although our vacation south got nixed [budget cuts to Dan's agency], I'm SO excited to have bought our plane tickets for our summer vacation home to my parent's in Ontario! The boys and I fly out first and stay for two weeks at my parent's campground where Natty and Isaac will be treated to swimming, golf-cart rides, gator rides, back-hoe rides, wagon-rides, craft time, very careful motorcycle rides (not out on the road) from Papa, and general spoiling all around from the grandparents... and Auntie Paige and Uncle John! (They live 10 minutes away.) Then Dan will join us for week three and we'll stay at John and Paige's place. I'm so, so, so excited! All but the part where I fly out by myself with Natty in the seat beside me, and Isaac on my lap.... for four hours. Eye-yei-yei.

*We almost got rid of all our snow. It was gone for a few days. And I even saw tulips growing in my garden! I have faith that April will pull through for us all, and those tulips will continue to push up the black earth all over this wintry city!

*Natty has just started actually singing songs out loud with the words, and mostly in tune. Ah, it warms my very heart to hear him perform a solo concert for us of songs like "Hot Cross Buns" and "Swimming, Swimming, In the Swimming Pool..." My little boy is musical! Hurray! He belongs! : )