Gosh …

… the last time I updated was 1st July – how very poor. I’m thinking that you will start to see a trend here that the posts go down as my workload increases. Having some paid employment means that updating the blog has gone even further down my list of daily tasks – whoops!

I cannot believe how quickly the summer is flying past. We started off with a visit from Emma, Marcus and Callum and the Kevin and Joan followed soon after. We had a great time with everyone and really felt it when we were just down to the 4 of us again. We made the most of having Auntie Joan and Uncle Kevin on hand to babysit and went to our very first real drive – in. The sound quality and the picture were fairly rubbish but we enjoyed the experience, mostly the lady in the golf cart who came round with refreshments and lent you her torch so you could see what she had! I also took the plunge and had my eyes lasered whilst we had an extra 2 sets of eyes to watch the kids. Whilst I wouldn’t say that it was the most pleasant way to spend 10 mins and a whole load of money it was well worth it. My eyesight is now plus 20/20 (whatever that means) and so I am glasses and contact lense free. Its a very strange feeling I can tell you and I find myself having to catch myself when I’m driving down the road as it feels odd not having glasses on.

Grace and Patrick continue to thrive and both seem to be really enjoying there summer. I made the decision (possibly selfishly??) that I wanted to spend some time with them over the summer and so didn’t enroll them for any camps or summer schools. I think it was the right decision and we have had a great time going on adventures on the bike (we saw snakes!!), making lots of trips to the library, exploring a bit more of where we live and playing with our friends. The weather on occasion has not been kind to us and so we have also made lots of cup cakes and cookies.

Much to Patricks delight we also managed a trip to see Thomas at a classic railway in St Thomas’s. Both children had a ball, Patrick almost didn’t get through the gate as he was so excited just to see a picture of Thomas. He seems to really love all things trains and will say Thomas and choo choo if we see one. His vocabularly seems to be expanding daily and he can now confidently say Grace and is pretty much repeating everything you say which is fun. Tonight he also fed himself his dinner from start to finish – not unusual for Patrick except this time he did it with a spoon!

Grace seems to have grown in confidence a bit this summer which is nice to see. She is a really energetic kid and loves to jump and bounce. To save our new bed I have taken her to the local trampolining club a couple of time. She absolutely adores it and seems to really light up when she bounces. They don’t do classes for 4 year olds so she will have to wait until she is 6, that is unless I can persuade her to do what the coach says in the meantime!

Today we went to Rattlesnake point and got our season pass for Halton Hills. Diesel has been there on his bike a few times before but this was my first time and I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner. Being close the the Niagara escarpment has its bonuses – one being the most outstanding scenery. I truly couldn’t believe that I was less than half an hour from my house. The camping spots looked really niec too so I think Grace and Diesel will try it out soon. She seems very up for it, Diesel is keen for us to take Patrick too but at the moment he doesn’t stay in one place very long so any images of a relaxing meal around the firepit would be short lived!