Busy, Busy, Busy

A turning "Three Party" hosted by Max and Vanh

Followed by an impromptu trip to Montreal to visit Auntie Kristen...
Adventures everywhere we turn
Hotel time and The metro

The Biodome

Auntie Kristen's work building

Lunch out

A few moments of feeling lost...

Ben, what are you doing?
Sitting mama, thinking of where we are?
We're lost mama.

We weren't but it was cute.

Now tomorrow?
Montreal to home in 7 or so hours.
We may get lost...
or I may lose my ever loving mind.
Then a few days of packing and finding a mover.
House closes on the 12th
(and I want to be at the cottage for most of the days between now and then).

Wish me luck.

fun that goes on and on

New dinos

midnight dance parties

(you wear underwear on your head, right?)

cupcakes and 

climbing and

swimming and 

friends.

Lots and lots of friends

old and new.

And Joy.

Lots of Joy.

Waterlemon

Dude loves his waterlemon, alot...
so off we went during Max and Vanh's nap
to search out a grocery store
and a waterlemon for dinnertime sharing.

Here is how it goes chez max-vanh

eat

and dribble

have a shower

eat some more
in the shower

isn't that the way you do it?

Ottawa Fun! Part One...

Parties

and aqua-zookas

and water parks.

Oh My!

My camera is not out nearly enough as we are most often by the water.
The sun shines every single day,
the humidity doesn't bother us by the lake,
and dude has not worn a sweater for 17 days...

It rained for 12 minutes on Wednesday
while we were eating lunch inside.

Life is very very good!

The first words I heard this morning...

Wake up sweetheart,
the sun is shining and
we should go and sit down by the calm water.

As he repeatedly pinched my cheek.
Hard.
Apparently his sweetheart wasn't waking up fast enough.

My view from here...

Seriously thankful 

A job I love

Comes with wonderful holidays

And fabulous views.

A couple notes of interest...
mosquito bites are called poker-dots,
for obvious reasons
and on Ben they grow to the size of a two dollar coin
and require allergy meds...
allergy meds seem to cause night terrors
but solve the terrible itching

My townhouse sold, privately, yipee
Now, how to pack and get ready to move while sitting on a beach?
I'll get back to you on that.

Ottawa fun next week...
we can't wait!

summer is upon us..

Dude has slept past 8 every day since the last alarm rang on Thursday.  3 times past 9.  Now add to that the 9:30 start time for our very first un-parented swimming lessons in the coldish lake on overcast days and today in the rain and you have a problem.

Took dude to swimming today before I fed him breakfast.

Won't do that again.

May in fact set an alarm for tomorrow.

It was very very ugly from about the 30 second mark.  So 29.5 minutes of very very ugly.

 Yesterday, day one of lessons was lovely and looked like this...

Rounded out the morning with a trip to town
tim hortons for mama
kawartha dairy for the dude
a bit of shopping
and now the library
and internet access
next comes a nap
for both of us

I love me some lazy summer days...

Summer so far...so lovely