Friday, June 17, 2005
Oliver is Here!
In all the excitement of our trip, I forgot to mention that Oliver has arrived. He was here last week on an exchange program from Kelowna, BC. We had to arrange for a friend to pick him up from the airport on Saturday, as we were still out west. He will stay with us until at least August 7th. Maybe even longer.
That boy is growing up, slowly but surely. He will be 14 in August and is still very small for his age... ie. he is about the height of a 10 year old. (We are sure that Owen will be taller than him pretty soon). He has really long hair now, and it was smelly and ratty, but Amelia soon took care of that. She is determined to groom him into a boy that girls will like, aka "cool" and "hot". He is starting high school in the fall so we sent him yesterday to the Glebe with Zoe and Amelia to spend the day at their high school. Zoe has just finished grade 9 and Amelia is finishing (we hope) grade 11. We are hoping that Oliver will stay here with us for the next year. (He lived with us until two years ago when his mom moved to BC)
So we are working on reminding him how great Ottawa is so he will want to be here! It is his choice in the end... I actually suggested that he start a list... of all the things that Kelowna has that Ottawa doesn't have, and all the things that Ottawa has that Kelowna doesn't have. So he can be objective... sort of.
That boy is growing up, slowly but surely. He will be 14 in August and is still very small for his age... ie. he is about the height of a 10 year old. (We are sure that Owen will be taller than him pretty soon). He has really long hair now, and it was smelly and ratty, but Amelia soon took care of that. She is determined to groom him into a boy that girls will like, aka "cool" and "hot". He is starting high school in the fall so we sent him yesterday to the Glebe with Zoe and Amelia to spend the day at their high school. Zoe has just finished grade 9 and Amelia is finishing (we hope) grade 11. We are hoping that Oliver will stay here with us for the next year. (He lived with us until two years ago when his mom moved to BC)
So we are working on reminding him how great Ottawa is so he will want to be here! It is his choice in the end... I actually suggested that he start a list... of all the things that Kelowna has that Ottawa doesn't have, and all the things that Ottawa has that Kelowna doesn't have. So he can be objective... sort of.
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Lisa,
Sounds like you had a nice vacation and enjoyed some wildlife too. We just got back from our trip (posts to come) and I am catching up on your blog. Wow, so you will have an extra kid this summer! You are a cool mom!
Kim from Relaxed Homeskool
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Sounds like you had a nice vacation and enjoyed some wildlife too. We just got back from our trip (posts to come) and I am catching up on your blog. Wow, so you will have an extra kid this summer! You are a cool mom!
Kim from Relaxed Homeskool
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