Playdate with Jack

Last July, when we put our house on the market, a couple of people turned up late to our first open house.  The real estate agent had already left when they knocked on the door.  Turns out they were a young couple from about 5 doors down with a little boy just a 3.5 months older than Augie.  Why we had not met them before we were considering moving, I do not know.  Oh yeah, I do know, that's because that street became so awful we didn't even want to go out in it near the end of our time there.

Anyway, we ended up having a great chat with them that day and have stayed in touch ever since.  Dan is a pilot and Erica is an Occupational Therapist.  Their son Jack is hands-down the smartest kid we know.   He's also a fun little guy who is the same size as Augie and just as energetic.  Jack is about the only one of Augie's friends that ticks both of these boxes so we try to have playdates with him regularly.  Dan and Erica came over for a while back in early August to discuss an upcoming trip they were planning to the US.  We tried to have these discussions indoors but then we had to relocate to the playground.

They had just been to the US and Canada Expo at the convention centre, where Jack got a spider painted on his face.

Augie found this really interesting.

We were trying to get a cute photo of them sitting on the playground steps together.  This is much like photographing dolphins in that, no matter what type of camera gear you have, the shutter speed is just never fast enough...

Jack tries to hold Augie's hand.

Augie leaves a brother hanging.

This is the closest thing I got to both of them looking at the camera and smiling.  Note neither one of them are sitting down.  The sitting part lasted for approximately 38 seconds.

And then we had some sliding.

Dan and Jack demonstrated how they look over their back fence to see the planes landing and taking off (they live not far from the airport since  Dan is a pilot). Quite a feat for someone not yet 2!

The day ended with a little bit of football.  Not sure why Augie is down in this photo!