The week in recap

I just downloaded my photos from this past week. We've done a lot this week, most of it fun, and almost none of it was mentioned here. Time to rectify that, primarily through a photo montage.

Emily loves crafts. If it were up to her, we would spend our entire day doing crafts. On some rainy days, it feels like we do. One day this week, her nap didn't take so, it being rainy, we "crafted." She was a pig in shit. With Hallowe'en around the corner, it's easy to come up with craft ideas and find cheap materials.

Hope spent a good part of her week falling, climbing, walking, stumbling. The usual. She's discovered the fun of walking around with an empty bucket and finding things to put inside it. She also has become a little taken with Emily's doctor set. She carries it around looking for people to open if for her and listen to her heart.

Thursday is garbage day around here. This week a little part of our family was set out at the curb. I can't say I was sorry to see it go. This member hasn't pulled its weight in a long time and I cursed every time it had to come anywhere with us. The member I'm talking about is this beauty:



We bought this stroller, or rather "travel system" before Emily was born using money given to us by my friends at work. The stroller and car seat that came with it wheeled both Emily and Hope around, often at the same time during the last year. I devised a system where Hope would ride in the stroller (or car seat clipped into the stroller when she was really small) and Emily sat underneath with her bum in the basket. It's hard to explain but it worked. Unfortunately (or fortunately in fact) the added weight and unintended use was too much for the old girl to bear and last week one of the bars underneath gave up the ghost. Couple this with the fact that one of the front wheels has been falling off for well over a year and we decided to say goodbye. I'm really not sorry to see it go but at the same time it is a little piece of history that is now sitting in the Carp landfill.



Today I took Emily and Hope to the Farm for the members' Hallowe'en party. Emily loved it. We met our friends there, Pam and her kids Nevan and Celia. Emily and Nevan couldn't have cared less that it poured most of the time we were there. Emily was just thrilled to be decked out in her (three dollar!) Baby Bop costume, making crafts and filling her face with caramel apples. Hope got into the action with a bit of colouring (and eating caramel apples).



And then finally (I promise), at the end of the day today we went to our friends Ron and Meredith's for their son Duncan's second birthday party. The kids played, the adults had a great time hanging out, we filled ourselves with spaghetti and meatballs and wine and cake. It was a fine end to a fine week. Oh and this afternoon I had a 90-minute massage that made the week extra special for me. I expect to sleep very well tonight (Hope willing).

Tomorrow we plan to go to the last Ottawa Farmers' Market of the season to pick up our locally-produced veggies and beef. After that we'll hit a playground with some friends who we haven't seen in a long, long time, Jen, who often comments here, and her kids Gillian and Gwen.

After that I'll probably need to sit down for a while.