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The last week or so saw many firsts:

October 21^st

Lily’s first playdate, with her school friend Isabel. I accompanied her, and Harry accompanied me.

October 22^nd

Harry’s first visitor, his old nursery friend James was in town with his mum Sarah. Sarah is originally from Toronto and her parents still live here. James & Harry had lunch together, reminisced^* about their nursery days, and collected pine cones in Queen’s park.
^* ok perhaps I’m slightly embellishing, but they certainly had fun!

October 23^rd

Lily’s first school fair was today, and we were eager to help raise money by eating cake. But, just as we were getting ready to leave, Harry rolled down the stairs and bashed his head on the newel post.

After a couple of minutes crying he recovered and didn’t seem bothered at all, but then I noticed a 3cm gash on the side of his head. Caroline was away so I called Gordon, our landlord, and he kindly gave us a lift to the children’s hospital “Sick Kids” for our first hospital visit.

After triage Harry looked like Jack with a broken crown. We waited 3 hours (not bad for Sick Kids apparently), bought some mini Winnies (see photo), then they put three staples in his head and we went home on the tram, via our favourite pizza shop.

October 24^th

Lily’s first Canadian birthday party, for her school friend Crystal. I accompanied her, and Harry accompanied me. It was fun though. I managed to slip away from Lily for long enough to drink a beer, and the musical duo were very entertaining.

October 26^th

Our first house guest arrived, Caroline’s mum. The kids went wild and stayed up far too late.

October 27^th

First stomach bug shortly followed by first sick day off school! Poor Lily was the unlucky victim.