Happy Birthday Daddy! Gwen Crawls!

Daddy had a great birthday this year! Gwen and Cara helped him blow out the candles!

Cara was a big help decorating the cake. A cake isn't finished until there are sprinkles on it.

Gwen cheered on Cara's decorating from her highchair!

We went to a "beach" for a picnic birthday supper and Cara and Gwen loved the sand! Cara had sand head to toe and Gwen enjoyed trying to eat it. This is a man made lake at the provincial park in the city. We'll go back again. It made Mummy & Daddy miss real beaches and the ocean. It was Cara's and Gwen's first times playing in sand at a beach!

We've had so much rain the grass is still nice and green and soft - Gwen loves crawling in it! Cara loves pulling it out in clumps.

Gwen and the big blue sky!
Taken at the same lake/park as the sky picture of Cara on this post. (2nd pic down)
That was back when Cara was 30 weeks old. Gwen is now 36 weeks old!

Sunday Daddy got to choose his birthday supper - maybe because he was feeling Maritimey after the beach visit he chose fish & chips...so we went out and found some frozen haddock fillets & Cavendish fries and borrowed Papa's fish recipe - it turned out pretty good. Almost as good as home!

Now for the biggest news! Gwen started crawling this week! Really traveling and now she's all over the place getting into Cara's toys (mostly her puzzles) and coming out to the kitchen when Mummy's cooking supper. Fun times ahead!

She is also working on 2 or 3 teeth and is making a lot of babbling sounds - her favourite word is still Dada and she always has a big smile for Daddy! She is also starting to clap her hands!