I have no photos today!

Today was a little troubling. Ava didn’t want to go into the pool.

Maybe I broke her? Maybe she’s upset at yesterday’s excursion? Who knows, she can’t tell me!

The whole family is also suffering from a little bit of spending to much time with each other. So after breakfast (I made instant “Hot Cakes”, wow they were sweet) Ava and I walked down to the beach to see if she’d changed her mind about it.

She had not. But she was happy to play in the sand for a bit. Then she requested we go, and that we go in a very particular direction.

Sometimes we play this game in Vancouver, where I carry her and ask her “Where to?” and she points in a direction and I carry her over that way. I think it’s a fun game that has put us in some interesting places, and more often than not, in a place where you think to yourself “Did…she know we were going here?”, where if you answer “yes”, it’s disturbing because she doesn’t seem to remember a lot from day-to-day, and then…well…

In this case, after 4 blocks of choose-your-own-adventure “pointing style”, we ended up back at the water fountain from the previous two days. >.>

We played there for a bit until she asked for mom, and I took her home. For lunch we wandered right on 5th, further than before, and ended up at a lovely restaurant called “Bip Bip” at Av. Constituyents and 5th. I think we may eat here again, as we both enjoyed our food, Ava enjoyed their waterfall, and the food came with chips and salsa. (which is notable, as we haven’t seen as much as you would expected).

Post-nap, we tried the pool again and Ava was kind of almost ok with it, but not really. I worried that I broke her bad. In the hot tub she was her old self again.

Dinner was at a pizza place called “La Famiglia” which we’d eaten at a couple days ago as well. They have a very nice meaty pizza and serve a bottle of chili oil with your pizza that is just the right amount of spicy. Miranda and I were both sweating additionally from it.

Ava and I walked back up to Walmart for diapers and yogurt, because I bought the wrong yogurt the other day and she didn’t like it, and because we were dangerously close to running out of diapers.

Dance party at night, as has become our tradition! (Pharrell’s “Happy” is a favourite). Good night!