In typical awesome grandparent fashion, the brought back gifts including this tye-dye onesie from a place called Salt Spring Island and these coasters made out of trees (which were actually favours from a wedding). I hope you all know how much I love coasters, so I was overjoyed about this. I will happily add them to the collection.
The in-laws went on several domestic trips this summer, including a 10 day excursion to British Columbia to visit with the Walsh side of the family.
In typical awesome grandparent fashion, the brought back gifts including this tye-dye onesie from a place called Salt Spring Island and these coasters made out of trees (which were actually favours from a wedding). I hope you all know how much I love coasters, so I was overjoyed about this. I will happily add them to the collection.
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One of the sketchiest areas of Barrie is known as Letitia Heights. It's where a woman got shot on her friend's front porch several years ago and the murder is still unsolved. It's where supply teachers refuse to return, even if they don't have jobs in any other schools in the county. It's where dreams go to die.
So when Barrie decided to re-vamp Lampman Lane park in Letitia Heights I figured they were either crazy or not paying attention to the neighbourhood. I was wrong though. The park they built is well designed, beautiful, functional, and unique to the city. It fits in (right near the small community centre and the school) and it makes the whole area seem inviting instead of scary, which I'm sure all the residents appreciate. Also, it's far away from the dreaded south end of town and really easy to get to for the Bradfords and us. We met up there the other day and Emmett and Xander totally had a blast in the new park and at the swanky splash pad. I certainly hope that as they begin construction on a new play structure in Sunnidale Park and a total reconstruction of the Lakeshore that they keep this project in mind. It seems to be a great success so far and Barrie doesn't often have that happen. I was searching up some material on Youtube for a colleague and I came across this video by accident. All I can really say is so. flipping. awesome. Being a parent is a truly weird experience. Sometimes kids are so great and adorable it makes your brain melt, like yesterday when Emmett said: "Mommy, I want to hold my Isaac". Say it with me, awwwwww. Yep. They are that cute. Then there are days like today when your child poops on the front walkway while you have company over and then spends the rest of the day having a 7-alarm tantrum about nothing, which, if you've never seen it amounts to your child morphing into this person: So what I'm saying is... goodtimes.
This movie is apparently really, really entertaining and is killing it at the box office. Anyone I know who has seen it says it's well worth watching and it's getting great reviews. I don't know if people with a toddler and a newborn are allowed out of the house to see a movie, but if we can somehow swing it I'd love to check it out in the theatres. I feel like this is probably the closest thing to a summer blockbuster that society's going to get this year so we'd better enjoy it while we can. Also, the last movie we saw in theatres was How to Train your Dragon 2, which was also really good, actually. My son really loves his Duplo. He made this amazing animal car tower for me the other day. I think he's a visionary. One day we will all be driving animal car towers.
This is the life of a stay at home mom. I legit thought it was Wednesday and it was actually Thursday. I lost a day somewhere. I don't know how but it just disappeared. Oh well. They're all the same anyway. Also lately it seems like the seasons just fly by. I suppose that's what happens when you get older; time seems to speed up. I remember thinking at the start of the summer that in a very short time it would feel like it was over and here we are. It doesn't help that "back to school" shopping started in July and I'm sure Halloween costumes will be out in stores next week. My friend Averil who I used to teach with got Isaac and Emmett the cutest presents down at Kempenfest this year.
My pictures here aren't great, but you get the idea. These are the cutest bears and I just about died when I saw their names on the little overalls. The company is called "You Name It: Personalized Gifts" and I couldn't believe that they actually had an "Emmett" and an "Isaac" bear pre-made and ready for purchase. How coincidental. Also pictured: Turtle pajamas from Wee Urban. Soooo soft! We were going to wait a bit before jumping in to full scale potty training (see my earlier post), but Tuesday morning when Emmett took a giant dump in his diaper for the millionth time and just didn't tell me about it or seem concerned at all I decided enough is enough. I have read pretty much every potty training book available at the library now and they all have contradictory advice, with only a little overlap. I decided to pay attention mostly to the overlap and anything else I thought made sense based on Emmett's reactions and behaviour, and just go for it. Right now we're in the naked phase because he just wasn't getting it with underwear on. He's had some successful pees but no poop yet. Right now he's napping with no pants on. We'll see how this goes. I may have doomed myself to be confined to the house with a naked urinating toddler for the foreseeable future. I just hope the foreseeable future isn't "until college happens". Update: (This is more for me to keep track than for readers, but you know, amuse yourself if you like). Day 1:
Day 2:
Sometimes Regan downloads random things. There's been a movie sitting in the media folder for a while now that I kept avoiding because it just looked like a bad rom-com. It has Rachel McAdams and some actor I don't recognize on the cover, so I figure this is the kind of thing she's doing just to pay the bills, and let's face it... her traditional fare is basically in that category of movie anyway, so I figured this one would be really bad. However, when you're home sick with a napping baby and a toddler at day care and there's nothing to do, sometimes you get desperate and curious. So I watched this movie because if nothing else it seemed harmless. I must say I was pleasantly surprised. It is a rom-com, but the focus of the entire movie isn't really on the relationship; it has several "acts". Bill Nighy is in it playing himself, basically, and that's awesome. Also aside from him and McAdams I didn't recognize a single actor: extra bonus. It turns out this movie (with the terrible title "About Time") is kind of like if McAdams had been in a GOOD movie version of The Time Traveller's Wife. Anyhow, if you're looking for a very decent romantic comedy that is fairly down-to-earth and you don't mind some time traveling plot holes you can drive a truck through, you might enjoy this movie. I was crying at the end, but that's just me. And baby hormones. p.s. I'd say don't watch the trailer first because A) the trailer ruins some of the best bits and B) part of the fun is being surprised by the events as they unfold. |