Annual Update

Ok, so it has been over a year since I posted!! Bad Nikki!! Where does the time go!!

We are well into the new school year. Cristian has entered Grade 3 and Mateo just started JK!!
Cristian is doing really well at school, rarely bringing home homework. He is on the cross-country team at school as well. Outside of school Cristian is playing hockey and taking swimming lessons. He recently tried out and made the Tier 1 baseball rep team so he is very excited about that. He will start training for that in January. Cristian will turn 8 next month and we are already busy discussing birthday party plans. He wants to see the new James Bond movie but I'm not so sure his friends would be allowed. I am leaning more towards a sleepover party!! We will see!!

As I mentioned before Mateo started JK this year and he loves it!! He calls it his "big" school. We have already had a couple of incidents. He came home his first day with no underwear on. Apparently he had an accident at school and hid his underwear behind the toilet at school and didn't tell his teacher!! It was a little embarrassing explaining that one!! Last week he was sent to the office for fighting so hopefully that is not going to be a regular occurence. Other than that he likes school!! Outside of school, Mateo is also taking swimming lessons. He also played soccer over the summer and he did really well. Going after the ball and scoring lots of goals. On his off days from school he goes to the home daycare with his younger brother.

Finally there is William. He is still attending the home daycare and I think he is a little put out on the days that Mateo doesn't go with him. He misses his big brother. He still likes to follow them around and copy what they do. He loves to play skateboards with his brother's Tech Dechs!! He is also taking swimming lessons with me. We had the first one last week, Victor took him as I had to work but I will doing from now on.

Things are really slow for Victor right now at work. He is on mandatory no overtime and occasionally they have only a 4 day week. It is making finances tough but we are trying to make do. He is taking a course right now to obtain his electrician's certification which will definitely be good to have for the future.

As for me things are pretty slow at work. We are waiting for the go ahead from a few sponsors so that we can proceed with the studies. I did a half hour lecture last week talking about GLP to some grad students in my boss' class. That was really nerve wracking and definitely out of my comfort zone but I did it!! I also started in a womens basketball league. We had our first game last night and we lost 43-30. I am a little sore today because of it!! If only my foul shots went in. I was 1 for 8 dismal!! Our team seems good though. We will see.