Winter started more than six weeks ago and finally there is enough snow to take out the sanki (sled) and give James his first ever sanki rides! They weren’t without incident though, as you can imagine.
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Instruction: How to use James.
Long lost in a pile of junk paper of bank statements, 4th grade homework, unpaid bills, etc. I just found this classic hand written note.
When J wakes up
- Change diaper
- feed the boy: 4 spoons (spoon is inside the tin) of “Kasha” and add milk (2%, warm).
- can give him some banana (if still hungry)
- Play time
- then around 2h later can give a litte snack (cheese or bread) a little drink (juice is on the tbl) * mix water 3 * 3oz.
- should sleep now.
I’ll be on the phone or online
Kiss
Hope be back for lunch.
So after the shock of waking up in the deep end of the pool I got to, following the list to the letter. Things were going well for the first few points and I was thinking that I’m a super dad until the food wasn’t enough and the begging started. So i simply repeated the steps so far that had worked well pouring more food, juice, food and milk into the kid. Problem solved for another 30mins or so until it was poo time. Hey, that wasn’t even on the list! Negotiated the situation well enough though and with just one more oz of milk he was back to sleep.
Dream kid so far!
Debating at 16months old!
During an enjoyable evening meal at the Barcelo River Maya Resort just south of Cancun James started a debate with Richard. At first it seemed like a general conversation but actually (after checking Wikipedia) it seems that they actually followed general debating rules pretty well. OK so James did all the talking and acting and Richard just sat there but all the motions were correct and fully in character.
The first affirmative constructive…
The first negative constructive…
Expecting some fun! :)
It’s been a while since I posted but nothing really jumped out until now. Elena’s mum finally got her US visa last week so we went for a drive up to Texas for some shopping. On the way we stopped for a few photos with one of the daily stunning texas sunsets.
Of course I couldn’t resist putting the first one up on facebook and it got some classic comments. . .
Jose Angel Cantu Guzman baby on the road
Peter Speight Place of birth, I-35 South Texas
Jose Angel Cantu Guzman At least it’s the road and not on a mc donalds
Rod Saclier Are you serious? I seem to remember you tempting the gullible but really???
Gene Hewitt she did not…..nooooo!??!
Tim Benson You’ve put on a bit of weight since I saw you last Peter …
Alice Duijnhouwer Ouch that looks awfull
Peter Speight The Parkes and Garden guy (complete with gun, hand cuffs, lights on his truck) stopped to assist which was great. Elena’s Mum was trying to speak English to him and he was trying to speak Spanish to her while I was busy with Elena.
Juan Pablo Leal G nice picture
Alpaslan Bazlamatçi Elena is having pain and you take your time to take picture of her while you should hold her hand !!! çok ayıp
Alison Speight So, a Mexican child at last 
But what you had to go through to get one…hai raab!
Helene Uys Are you serious? Did she actually have the baby on the I35?
Bryce Bishop That’s an excellent pic…
Dylan Speight REALLY!?!
Sabrina Bazlamatci you guys are funny yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Dmitry Garin You are a man, Peter! Congratulations!
Natalya Maximova Oh my God!!! Peter, tell to us truth. Are you serious?
Alice Duijnhouwer Where are the pics of the little one? is it a girl or a boy?
Anyway congrats all of you and Richard and James!!
Here is the actual photo that we stopped to take. . .
And a couple more . . .
Wii Fit Fun
We had a great laugh the other day setting up our profiles in the Wii Fit. I was as to be expected “a little over weight” but Elena’s was funny after the balance section. It asked. . . “Do you find yourself tripping over while you walk?” Must be true because she was shocked and said with eyes like dinner plates, “that’s BS!”.
James starting to get up to mischief. . .
Just put him up on the table for a minute for a photo op and strait away found something interesting.
Here are some more photos from the day around the house.
Cruisin’ Cancun on a 45′ Sea Ray
So we had a week to kill after finishing a difficult 7 month project and ended up in Cancun. Being low season there were great deals on boats to hire and hotels were as I like them, comphy and cheap! We couldn’t get the Cat that we wanted which would have let us sail up and down the coast as we pleased but Allen Mason from Cancun Catamarans was good enough to scout us out another great deal with Luxury Motor Yachts Cancun who put us on a 45′ Sea Ray motor yacht with two crew and all you can eat and drink for three days and three nights.
Being a motor yacht and our super deal we couldn’t ask them to sail too far away from the lagoon. As it happens the weather was against us for most of the time with storms and or rain every afternoon into the evening. As you can see from the photos it was still a very cool time which I recommend to anyone. We also made it out to Isla Mujeres where Dylan had a quick dip in the ocean with a shark.
Of course what first trip to Cancun doesn’t have the obligitory day trip to Chichen Itza. Allen also set this one up for us a little cheaper than the fast talking Mexican guy with a heavy American accent in the lobby of our hotel. Unfortunately our hotel was last on the pick up list so I was squashed in the back seat of the otherwise comphy bus between two huge guys for the full 2.5 hour journey. The way back wasn’t much better! 
All in all a great week without busin’ the budget. Well ok, we did go a bit over the original plan but a good time was had by all.
As usual, more photos here.
Passport Photo Attempts
Ok, so it sounds pretty easy. Just go to your nearest pharmacy, take a face front and eyes open picture against a white background and resize them for the passport. I think we went wrong with timing the photo shoot during is morning nap time!
Here are a few photos taken from my camera after the girl couldn’t take enough photos fast enough on the pharmacy’s point and shoot. I put the camera on sports and took around 70 photos to get this selection.
