I am an Auntie!

The above picture is of my sister in law Kayla, my brother Michael, and their newborn daughter, Haven.

It has been a while since I've had anything worthwile to post about, but I think my brother's new baby is quite deserving of her own feature on my blog.

Her name is Haven Gloria, and she was born early Saturday morning, July 25th, 2009. My goodsister has since announced that she is Done Having Babies and quite frankly I don't blame her.

It will likely be a while before this baby has any cousins on our side of the family, so she is getting terribly spoilt! Just today I saw some books that I couldn't resist getting her. One of those Spot the Dog books with the flaps that you lift up, and a dinosaur colouring book! Her dad always loved dinosaurs when he was little. I imagine that's a genetic trait.

I still like colouring books though, so by the time she's old enough to hold a crayon, I will maybe have coloured some of the dinos for her.

This next picture features myself (Caitlyn), and my wee niece, Haven!

Canada Day and Pantalaimon Steals a Sandal

I had today off thanks to the stat holiday, so took some pictures and videos and I decided that it would be a good idea to start up a YouTube account for all my videos. I put a few videos up already featuring the ferrets and the dogs. You can see my YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/user/feminabifrons In the meantime, check out this video of Pantalaimon stealing a sandal!

My little "helper"...

So this morning my parents left for Vancouver to visit my sister for a while, leaving me in charge of the 3 ferrets, 2 dogs, and 2 horses. My brother promptly arrived to drop off his dog, Guiness, so that I wouldn't get too lonely. Thankfully, because it's Canada Day, I have today off to spend with my furry family.

Now, because my parents were gone, I thought it would be a special treat for the ferrets to get to run around upstairs (which they normally aren't allowed to do). Things went smoothly at first, so I decided I would be safe to leave them unsupervised while I hopped in the shower.

WRONG. When I got out I found Jean Luc digging frantically in the Aloe Vera pot! He had uprooted about 6 Aloe babies, and dumped all the soil on the living room floor! I'm sure my mom is cringing if she is reading this.

In all fairness, I had been meaning on doing this myself, namely, removing the Aloe babies and transferring them into their own pots to be given away. So Jean Luc was really just helping me *g*.

Too bad I didn't take a picture of Jean Luc before throwing him in the shower, he looked like quite the little rascal, with his muddy paws and face. He had rings of dirt around both eyes from sticking his face right into the soil. Alas, at the time I didn't find him cute.