Week Three - Settling in

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  Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Friday, November 2, 2007

Hi all

I am stealing an unsecured WiFi connection from one of the neighbours and the signal is very patchy!

All good here. Ben is away on site again today - only about an hour north of Vancouver, but right up in the mountains and he texted earlier to say it was cold and snowing up there. He went out last night and got some proper cold weather work clothes as he froze on Tuesday when he went out. Fleece lined wellies and the like! He looks like a right woodsman with it all on!! Needs to thicken up his blood a little! He should be back last afternoon, but he has to get the sea bus from North Vancouver to downtown and then the West Coast Espress train and then a bus so it will take him about an hour and a half to get home. He's not finding the commute tooooo bad

Anna in her new chair

. Although we are looking out for an old reliable banger so that he can drive to the station. He leaves here at 7am so Anna isn't awake by then so for me to take him will be a bit of a schlep. The bus goes from right outside the house so it isn't too much trouble but a car would be easier.

Having said that Anna isn't awake by 7am - she woke up at 5am this morning. Very loudly! And then refused to go back in her cot so she came into bed with me (Ben left at 5:30) and proceeded to kick me to death for an hour and finally we both went to sleep at about 6:15 and massively overslept till about 8:30! No shower for me therefore until about half an hour ago when she went down for a belated morning nap! Not a bad day to do it though cause we don't have much planned except a visit to the grocery store. Still exploring the shops to see which ones are good value.

I am going to join the library today too as it is still 10 days till our telly is delivered and I've run out of books. They do some good baby activity programs there so I'll check them out and do my "first day at school" thing! Hate joining new groups but I shall be brave! Midge and Bill next door (!) have taken us under their wing (a retirement project!?) and have given me the entire Port Coquitlam Leisure Centre brochure and they also have quite a few baby oriented programs that we will participate in. Especially swimming. Don't want Anna to get un-used to the water. She was loving it so much by the time we left Barry. You have to pay for all the activities here and although they're not expensive, they will be if we sign up for everything so I'm going to be a bit selective. I'm also a bit hampered by Anna's nap times. There's no point doing something "fun" if she's tired and cranky - spoils it for us both

Curly locks on Mummy and Daddy's chair!

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Our sofas and bed arrived - can't remembered if I said? Two chocolate brown sofas that look like leather but are actually microfibre and therefore a little more resilient and able to take Anna's love! They feel lovely too! Them and Anna's toys are the only furniture on the ground floor! Oh, and the outside table and 2 dining room chairs that next door lent us for the kitchen! Needless to say, Anna is loving having the house as one big playroom. The bed is an American King Size - ENORMOUS! Wider than it is long! And the top of the mattress comes above my hip so I have to do a little hop, skip and a jump to get into bed at night. Great.

We have friends coming for Sunday lunch. Warren and Wendy. Ben worked with Warren in Guinea and they only live 15 minutes from us in Maple Ridge. Their youngest son (they have 3) is a year older than Anna so while the older two are doing stuff on Sunday we thought we'd plop Malcolm and Anna in the 'playroom' and we'll have lunch and wine and get to know each other better. We also met a very nice couple at a restaurant we were at one evening. They also have three kids and their youngest daughter Lola is the same age as Anna. They sat next to each other and played and we got chatting. I'm hoping to set up a few play dates with her too and use them as a way to meet other people

Relaxing!

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We have had some nice weather the past few days - cold but clear and not raining, which I am rapidly beginning to realise in Vancouver, is something to be very grateful for! Sadly, the rain looks like descending tonight, just in time for the weekend. Ben's bought a jogging stroller out of the local classifieds and is going to fix the flat tyre tonight and get Anna out running with him. Hope she enjoys it as much as he will!! I've had to order her a cosy toes because it seems to have got really cold here all of a sudden and she gets a bit blue around the edges if she's out in the stroller for too long. Its like a stroller sleeping bag that she gets posted into. Hard to find though and I think they're pretty much essential?? Ah well. It'll be delivered next week I hope.

A little bit more walking from Anna this week. A few steps a day but she gets all coy about it with me and will only really do it for Ben!

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