Mummy's Little Pumpkin

The two top pictures are from last week, but I have just got them from Alex. The first is Roy and me at the Brickworks, potographed from a distance, while the second one is a gorgeous colour orgy in the Niagara Gorge.

The last few days were just as lovely as the beginning of our stay with Alex, Meaghan and Callum. We had a yummy Japanese meal and a Greek one. We had a Fish and Chips takeaway supper one night and Alex cooked big prawns in coconut milk on another night. Gail and Sarah visited one evening when we all had a takeaway curry. You may have noticed the culinary theme here. Alex has put on a few pounds, he admitted, but we enjoyed the food, whether out, bought in or cooked on the premises.

We went to the babies' library session again on Tuesday, when Callum decided to be antisocial and slept through it. Shame, as that was the last session and the lady there was ever so nice.

The new stroller arrived on Wednesday, we assembled it and took it for a test drive. It is a great improvement on the previous one with spring loaded wheels and easy steering. Mind you, Callum still has the miseries as he is put into it. He is a real "perpetuum mobile" so it restricts his kicking and wriggling. Still, once out he loves it, lookes around, gurgles to the trees and then usually drops off.

He is now very talkative, gurgles, smiles, laughs and follows you with his eyes. The cute factor is getting multiplied as the weeks go along and thankfully he is also beginning to grasp that night is for sleeping.

The last big event of the week just before our departure was Halloween, which he celebrated with wearing a cute suit and making a visit into the pumpkin. Sorry about the shaky T-shirt picture, but I do not like to use flash if it is possible to avoid it. His sentiments about his dad are reciprocated!

We left Toronto last night and arrived into a downpour, strong winds and yuk weather in Brighton. Still, what would one expect in November? Home on Thursday if all is well.