This and that

Lots of things I've been meaning to blog about.

1. It's hot out. Uhg. Not news for my local friends, but for our non-local readers (hi Nancy), it's beyond normal hot here. Environment Canada says the norm for today is 22C. It was 34C at 2 PM. Let me check again...No, now it's 35 (about 100 F) + humidity. I'm sitting up in the bedroom where the air conditioner is (ahhhh). Cordie is asleep in her bouncy chair, and Duncan is napping - finally. Oh he's been very two today :)

2. We had company. Bill's Dad and brother were in town for 9 days. It was a really good visit, but it's nice to have our house back. No matter how laid back people are you change how you live when they are there all the time.

3. Going to the cabin. Mom asked me to come out to the cabin for a week with the kids. I've been putting off doing this b/c the idea of it all is rather daunting - no cars, so we need to haul everything in. But their friends have a playpen we can borrow, which means we only need to bring one and a few other things. And clothes. And toys...but you get the idea. I said to Mom I would if she promises to help. I think Duncan is going to love it! So I think we are going on Sunday.

4. Potty training. *sigh* Okay, I'm a firm believer in "when they are ready they are ready" and if they are 2 or 3 or whatever - that's how it goes. But as D starts preschool in September, they want him potty trained, and so there is this pressure. And so everyone has their little tips on how to do it. The most common is let them run naked and they'll get it real quick. But the thing is I don't want puddles of pee, or bigger accidents, around my house! I'm sorry, but I can't get over the idea of letting stubborn Duncan do that all the time. I will give it a good go after we get back from the cabin. Doing the every 45 minutes or whatever and hopefully he'll get it. If not, then he can wear pull ups to school. It's only 2 1/2 hours 2 days a week. But this brings up my next wondering...Actually...I'm going to put that one in a separate post.

Wilting

Before I go any further I am not one of these people that complains when it rains during the summer, or it's not warm enough etc... I do enjoy nice weather, but I don't enjoy hot weather. We have hot weather. It's miserable.

Okay, in relation to some other people, it's not 104F+ out (thank goodness) but I did figure it was 96+ humidity this afternoon (using classic double it and add 30 - Blue said it was 33C).

Last night we slept just miserably and so in the middle of the night - when Bill was getting up at 1:30 AM to go downstairs and play on the computer for a bit b/c it was too hot to sleep - I muttered to him "I don't care what, we're putting in the air conditioner tomorrow". In his defense it was absolutely buried in the back of the shed, but this morning while I took Duncan out to the store with me for some Duncan/Mommy time he and Grandpa Bob pulled the A/C out of the back of the shed (along with an extra chair for the kitchen table) and when we came home they were installing it in the bedroom window. God bless them! It is so comfortable up there now, let's hope Cordie sleeps well tonight and we can all get a good nights rest.

The kids and I went to the water park in Pitt Meadows this afternoon. Mom and Dad have my niece and nephew this week, so Mom has been taking them to the park and what not each day. So we went to join them. We agreed that MR Park is better, and perhaps on Thursday we'll go there for a bit. Today we were going to go to Stanley Park but are going to see tomorrow morning about going instead.

Alright, Bill just popped out to grab some supper, and Cordie is making noise, so I'll go see if she'd like to eat before supper is here.

Day care solutions

So Nikki might not be able to take Duncan through until August now. I don't blame her, frankly I thought she was brave saying she could. But this pregnancy has been harder on her and so the doctor is telling her to put her feet up as much as she can. So we need to see if we can find care for Roo for July.

Our 1st option is to see if Jen (who is taking him in August and September) might be available a month earlier.

But a 2nd option presented itself this afternoon when I was walking by my coworker who lives in our neck of the woods and whose older daughters baby sit. I asked him if one of his girls might be interested in having a month long baby sitting stint. We'd have her come to our house, and we'd pay a bit more b/c she'd be coming to our place. He thought it was a great idea and thinks she might go for it too. We'll see how it pans out, but I think it's a great idea!

Hopefully by July the weather will be more summer like. I loved what my coworker called it today - June-uary. It's so cold out there! For June that is. And here it's about 40 out on the US Eastern Seaboard and Southern Ontario area. Ok, give me this any day! I hate it when it's that hot.