RIBEIRO

It's been a while since we've written. In the last 3 weeks we've been to Kelowna for Thanksgiving ( thank you Kelowna family for a great time), Victoria to visit Cara, Nuno and the new baby OLIVIA!!! And this last week Andrea, Amanda's sister, had a conference in Vancouver and extended her stay to visit us til tomorrow! Jonas has now travelled by car, by ferry and by skytrain. By the end of his first year, he'll be sure to have flown by plane as well! We had a great Thanksgiving this year, which included 4 Turkey Dinners! We should be so thankful to even have one! Part of our visit included a large group of our family going to a Pumpkin Patch farm close to our Grandparents house! We were able to pick out a few pumpkins, do a haymaze, cornmaze and a hay ride around the farm. Hopefully we'll make this an annual event! We were also invited to a wonderful turkey dinner with our friends, the Mitchells, up at Christina's parents Chalet up on the hill overlook

The first part of October has been fairly routine. Jonas and I try to get out of the house at least once a day and we're part of two baby groups during the week. We had a great play date with the Pereira's this week. It's great having friends with kids similar ages! Keith is midway through another course at SFU and seems to be enjoying it. We've also become involved in the Roots of Empathy program. rootsofempathy.org It's such a great program for school age children. The program is meant to create empathy among young people and reduce bulllying, etc. There really is so much more to it. Check out the website. Jonas is starting to outgrow his baby bathtub....he loves his baths still but enjoys pushing himself off the sides of the tub to see how far he can go! He's wacked his head on the babytub too many times so I think it's time to upgrade to the big tub! He's also become very oral. EVERYTHING goes in his mouth including his thumb which he's fully f