Aidan has his morning rituals.

After getting up, and going to the toilet (alleluia!) then washing his hands, he goes outside and nabs the newspaper for me. Then it’s upstairs to give me the cat dishes to clean, retrieve the cat food from the closet/pantry, and place the newly cleaned and filled cat dishes back on the cat mat.

This morning, after ascending the stairs and stealing a glance at the masthead of the newspaper, he spied a small 2″x2″ graphic with a purple “S” and a backward yellow “R”.

A: Look!  It’s a picture of Toys’R’Us on the newspaper!  It’s Toys’R’Us on Broadway!

And certainly it was.  Or, it’s a partial photo of its sign.  The sign is distinctive because it’s overlaid on top of the old (and historic) ‘Bowmac’ sign.

Aidan is *so* brainwashed with corporate imagery.

But ‘on Broadway’?!?  We were taking the bus downtown on Canada Day and he said something else (now forgotten) that made me turn to Gwen and remark that he’ll know all the street names and how to navigate around the city by the time he’s five.

Record breaking heat this weekend.  Cold and wet start to June (the local weather personalities were calling it “June-uary” — which got real old, real quick) and now blue sky and scorching heat.  Welcome to the dry season.

This weekend was busy doing an assortment of things.  Saturday was chores and errands in the morning, a quick trip (hah!) to Highview Lookout in Cypress Provincial Park for some photos and cache placement scouting, and then over to the COINANZA geocaching event in the Barnet Marine Park in north Burnaby.  Aidan had a good time playing in the sand and watching the trains whiz by as we socialized.  If you go through the photos at the event, you’ll see Aidan made it again. :) Grocery shopping after that, and then Aidan and I went by bike back to the grocery store because I forgot to get the one thing we were supposed to get — hamburger buns (for supper).  Doh!

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And, oh, we also picked up a travel bug at the event:

Today was a bit more of the same.  Back to Cypress to drop off a geocache that we’re placing (not published yet, link to come) and then to the Wal*mart in North Van to get The Boy some summer jammies.  Back home for a nap that didn’t come and then we beat it down to Spanish Banks for a picnic on the beach.  Whew.

What kind of bug is this?  Anyone?  It was on the beach where we were trying to picnic:

You know, the views in Vancouver never get old.

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How awesome will this be?

Teaser from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

I mean it’s Joss Whedon! You know: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Toy Story, and others.

Tune in on 15 July, 17 July, and 19 July for the three episodes. The episodes come down on the 20th so you need to be quick! http://www.drhorrible.com/. Also, follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/drhorrible

You may have heard of Gwen’s new writing gig:  http://vancouver.savvysource.com.  She’s going to have a post on LCM about it, soon.

Anyhow, that’s the reason for the headshot that I posted here.  The headshot that Gwen chose is below (the first picture is cropped to how Savvy Source has it, the second is the original shape).