On Saturday Summer's friend Abby celebrated her 4th birthday. Summer and Abby have been friends since they were 1 and in daycare together. In fact, for about a year, if you asked Summer what her name was, the response was "Abby". Abby's skating party was cancelled due to a -25 windchill, so the kids had a great time at Abby's house for a Birthday party play date.
Queen Abby & Princess Summer
On Sunday, we (our neighbourhood)had a little surprise 75th birthday party for Diane. She was very surprised, and was wondering why there were so many cars in her driveway when she and Pete arrived home after church. Summer and I stayed at the party for an hour and then headed for Toronto. Sunday turned out to be the best weather day to travel, so we really lucked out.
Barb and Laurie hosted us for Sunday and Monday - we had a great turkey dinner with Barb, Laurie, Graeme & Sara, and Don made it to Toronto in the nick of time for supper. Barb and Summer and I shovelled the very large driveway on Monday morning and we also did a little sliding down the back hill. Summer was fearless as usual.
Summer and Barb making salad
Laurie telling Summer that 'Summer Wings' are on the menu
Monday morning we headed into the fray of Toronto Rush Hour traffic to go to Sick Kids for Sum's eye appt. The usual 50-60 min. drive turned out to be 90+min. We got to eye clinic with 1min. to spare.
Summer's right eye did not perform well and a prescription adjustment is required. So, we're back in May/June to see if it has worked. Otherwise, we may be looking at some patching. Her two part appointment includes an eye test with an Orthopist, then an eye exam with the Ophthalmologist. The Orthoptist had the pleasure of putting in the eye drops for dilation - which turned out to be me and her holding down a Screaming Summer. When Summer would not stop crying while we waited in the waiting room, she received a bit of a stern word from the orthoptist - that seemed to do the trick.
Between appointments we had coffee with my friend Marjorie who was accompanying her friend while her friends son was undergoing surgery. We had a good little catch up.
After the second appointment we had lunch with my friend Heather,who works at Sick Kids,at our favourite Indian Buffet. We had a great visit and I am sure I ate my body weight in curry and samosa.
Heather & Summer
Don departed from Sick Kids for Cornwall for his annual conference, and Summer and I headed home. We had sunny skies all the way north. Summer finally fell asleep at Sundridge - 30 min from home.
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