Summer

Summer is continuing to fly by. I've got a brief window of quiet while Alice is napping and Max is at school. This banal post is more for myself. I want to remember later what we were up to in Summer of '10.

This weekend we hung out at Green Lake and caught the tail end of Shawn's company's milk carton derby boat race. Alice crawled around under the trees, and Max, Loren, and Shawn hung out on the dock cooling their toes in the water. Later that evening we had a fun super sunny picnic with Alicia and Loren at the Meadowbrook park up in Lake City. We fled when the mosquitoes came out at dusk.

Sunday morning we met our friends The Eriksens at Cal Anderson park and Max and Leaf played for a few hours while we enjoyed coffee and Top Pot Doughnuts. Alice napped for a few hours in the afternoon while Shawn and Max assembled the art easel from Grandma Rose out on the mage (Max's word for our small patio/deck). Max painted for less than 5 minutes and then painted on the exterior of our apartment building, staining it with acrylic red paint. Nice. Shawn went for a solo walk down to the library and I took the stir crazy kids to Fremont Peak Park. We finished the day with some book reading and looking at the huge pile of hand-me-down clothes we received from friends. Max likes his new duds!

Update

I haven't blogged in awhile. The summer has just been rolling by. We've been busy since we got back from our Santa Cruz trip 2 weeks ago. Shawn's laid up with a nasty cold and headache today and I'm moving around slowly in the humid heat. Not a very exciting day for Max, I'm afraid. We did venture out to a thrift store where he picked up a $2 Harley Davidson toy motorcycle that he's been obsessed with all day, that made getting him down for a nap interesting. I picked up some bedsheets, just in case I end up with a home birth. My labor with Max was so fast, and the birth center is so far away. 25 minutes at 2:30 in the morning. 1 HOUR during rush hour. I'll most likely be staying home if I go into labor on a weekday between 3 and 6pm, or on the weekend during a baseball or soccer game. I really don't want a home birth, but even more than that I don't want to give birth in the car. Think good thoughts that I'll go into labor at night! I'm due in just 7 weeks. Where has the time gone? I'm thinking it's a girl, I've had an intense sweet tooth lately (just ate a piece of chocolate cake and a chocolate ice cream bar). With Max I ate no sugar other than fruit and a steak almost daily.

In other news, Shawn's job has stabilized. We're very grateful, his 10% pay cut was even rescinded. And Season Two of MADMEN is finally here! Now if Max would just go to sleep Shawn and I could veg out and enjoy some quiet. We've got to get that in while we can!