Yea! No H1N1 this year. We're going out for Halloween!
There's a reason why you carve out your pumpkins closer to halloween. We carved our pumpkins on Monday after skating. It's now 6 days later. And our pumpkins are looking like they're going to need dentures.
It was also our next door neighbour Yahvi's birthday 2 weeks ago. And all the kids that came over were dressed up for the occasion. She was excited and happy and really into the festivities. Laughing, dancing and...you get the drift. She's dressed up as the angry kid.
Later on the neighbours came over for some games, prizes and food. They even broke out some of their ancestral headgear. I think some of them founded Greenland and Iceland.
I thought I saw an axe and shield, and a book on "How to cook Dragon meat" in one of their garages.
And Samat got into it by pretending to put on his Angry Face.
We signed up Kieran to a Learn to Hockey. And lucky for him, because he's never really been interested in hockey until very recently, there were 4 spots or so available remaining. The sessions don't start til Nov 20 (weather permitting). But now I needed to get him equipment. Must have been because he's seeing the little kids practicing hockey at his weekly skating lessons. And not knowing how to size a kid for hockey equipment, I checked out Craigslist and couldn't find all the required equipment for his age and size. So I took Kieran to Canadian Tire. It took us well over an hour of figuring out what size hockey equipment fits for a pre-schooler who wants to play hockey. And this kid was getting frustrated, hungry and thirsty.
After trying on 10 or more different pieces of equipment from shoulder pads to pants to gloves to this 1 piece suit that had everything attached to it.
The problem with all the other equipment that we tried on was that Kieran would be a Small in the pants and gloves, but be a Med in the shoulder pads. Putting on the Small/Med shoulder pads from CCM, Winnwell, Easton was easy. It went on but taking it off would rip Kieran's ears off. And he would say they were ALL too small. It was hard to find the right combination.
Then I found in the next isle the boxes have sizes on it. Kieran is 110 cm (43 inch) tall. Which puts him right at the low end of the Med sizing. But the problem is the shoulder pads. And if the pads hurt his ears, it'll deter him from wanting to play. So this set comes from Torspo. It comes with everything, including pee-pee protector. It's got a suit that all the pads attach too. It was quite unique. And the shoulder pads have a velcro right down the middle of the chest that allows him to get in/out without shredding the ears.
And he found it comfy, although he was wearing his sweatpants underneath. So he made his choice. After I got the pants on it was like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And he was running around and had a difficult time getting up on the bench he was climbing up and down. It was funny. Then he got warm.
The only problem with this set is that it doesn't come with gloves. The other sets all come with gloves and a hockey bag. So it's comes with a jock, but no gloves. Gloves aren't cheap. But the Med gloves were all too large for Kieran's hands and he couldn't close his hands anyways.
The one nice thing about this suit that I read on reviews, is that you can't lose any of the pads. It's attached to the suit!
But we had to get gloves separately. Which was fine. Since the other box with everything from the other mfg weren't fitting that great. And reviews were saying the same thing. That the sizing was all wrong. Good thing I looked into this now. I know this stuff is out of stock, the shelves are empty at least for the sizes you need. And all the XXL and XS are left. Which are MED and 6 month enfant sizes in the US.
Looking forward to skating with my little turtle. He'll enjoy falling now, since he's all padded.
Not against these kids anyways. It was little Will.I.Am's 3rd birthday. And Spiderman's last day as a Latino Pinata. Luckily only Spiderman was struck. There were a couple of close calls, but no one went to the E.R. It was only Latino Pinata Spiderman that spilled his guts of sugary sweets. I wanted to keep the head, but the kids pulverized it to bits, using up their recent spike in sugar supply.
My battery ran out shortly after I took the video. I only have a few pics. Click me for more photos
At McDonald's, but not from this kid. It was close. But not quite there. Maybe next year. Give him a Thomas train and he's a happy camper.
It's Kieran's 3rd and last year in Casa. We're having a tough time deciding when he should transition to the regular school system. One factor is that the catholic school we want him to go to is capping it's enrollment. And we are just out of the boundaries of the school. If we want to move him, he'll have to move before the end of this calendar year otherwise we will have to go on a waiting list. Which may not be so bad. Who knows? It's just not according to Tresa's master plan.
But we already know the regular school system is not at the same level as this Montessori school. I'm amazed at the difference. SK is half day. And the goal is to count to 10, maybe in French. In 3rd year Casa, Kieran is already writing cursive words and adding and subtracting with 4 digit numbers.
What to do...except smile for the camera and roll with the punches life hands you.
And a brown guy scored the goal. Singh #58, scores the winning goal, the crowd goes curry wild! Well not exactly. It was a dream sequence of a movie that Russell Peters was filming at the ACC.
I'm not exactly sure what the name of the movie is. But Russell's in it. That's what his brother told me.
This is the film's director. Here's some trivia, he did another hockey movie way back, called the Mighty Ducks. I think he also directed some episodes of Dexter. And Alice? I dunno if that's true, but Russell was saying all this stuff so who knows if it's all true. But that's him with the darker cap on the left. Rob Lieberman. Google him.
This is us. My brother has some contacts! I haven't seen Clayton in years. Last time I saw him was at his old place. He scored us some tickets to the Leafs vs. Red Wings pre-season game on Saturday night. And lucky for Tresa, Andrew was a no show! Too bad dude. So she got see a Leafs game and maybe be in the movie back drop too. Depends how wide of an angle the lens is on that camera. We were the fillers on the far right. We didn't bother moving seats. We 9 rows back from the glass. And the restroom was calling back all the beer I'd gulped down.
Glad I was allowed to go out of the arena to meet Tresa at Union Stn. I didn't miss the puck drop and the National anthems being sung. I did however miss two Leaf goals which put them up 2 - 1. Yep...I didn't miss the Detroit goals. Tresa was asking me if these guys were from the minors. We didn't recognize half the names on the jerseys. I said...these are the guys that are going to the playoffs. Some day?
I think everyone in my family has a picture with Russell except me? Even my brother in the Philippines has a photo backstage when Russell did a show in Manila.
I still remember when he first did Open Mike. We were down at rink level waiting for the filming to finish. The crowd was getting tired and leaving bit by bit, they gave away 2 biz class tickets anywhere Air Canada flies (or 4 economy) and they went through must have been at least 10+ numbers before someone won. Too funny.
You know, by the time the Leafs finally win the cup again, a brown guy will likely be on the team.
Later on the neighbours came over for some games, prizes and food.
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