In With Both Feet: Updates

I think that we are finally settled and completely moved into our new place! Actually I think I still have one last big Rubbermaid bin to go through, but that's pretty good considering that I started with about a million of them (that number is completely accurate). I still haven't taken any pictures of the place so that will just have to wait. So far we are all enjoying it though. Eli loves the yard and plays outside every single day. Bruce is so much closer and I am so happy that he is usually home for dinner. Even if he has to go back to work he can still eat with us and then head out again because he doesn't have a 45 minute drive ahead of him. We have even been able to hang out with the Gasser family a few times and I am so relieved that we haven't been missing them too much. The other day Denise and I took the boys to Burnaby Lake and had a picnic and walked along the trails there. The boys had a blast and I think that Denise and I found a pretty good halfway point between our two houses. While we were walking around we had both boys in the strollers and there was a little ditch next to the path. Eli suddenly asked me to stop saying that he had seen a frog and I kept saying it was probably a bug or something but he was insistent so I stopped. Sure enough he had somehow spotted this little frog among all the pond scum and other stuff in this ditch. By the end of the day we ended up seeing about five frogs in total and Eli only destroyed one of his sneakers when he tried to step in and go after one of them so I call that a win.

Can you spot him?

Our frog friend

A view from our picnic bench

You can't see me, Mom!

Little explorers

On the way back we were all getting pretty hot (I have the sunburn to prove it) and we saw these sprinklers in a soccer field near by. By this time Eli had already gotten his feet all muddy so I figured a little wash down couldn't hurt. Denise was brave enough to run around once or twice with the boys but I opted to hang back with the babies.

Run!

I cannot believe that in the last month Simon has become a big ten month old! He is such a sweet little thing and it is so much fun to watch him learning new things and playing with his older brother. Pretty soon I'll have a one year old on my hands and I will probably have one of those meltdowns that only moms can have when they see their little ones growing up. I cannot wait to get to Edmonton so everyone can see him again. It has been so long and babies change so much in the first year. Only one month left!