Busy busy busy!

I realized a couple of days ago how busy life has become when I uploaded something like 150 photos at once. And it wasn't because we had taken a bunch of pictures all at once, it was a couple weeks' worth of pictures that I hadn't downloaded to the laptop to be able to upload to Flickr. So... what's keeping us so busy?!

Well, Trevor's back at work, for one. So that means that I'm on my own with both kids most of the time now. No more sleeping in for me... It's like being back to work! If I want to take a shower, I have to set an alarm!! Actually, I try to get up after Trevor's brushed his teeth and is on his way to work. I'm pretty lucky, the kids both like to sleep in or be lazy in the morning (perhaps they get that from their mother...). With this gorgeous weather, we've spent a lot of time outside. We go to the one of the parks in the area pretty much every day, so I get a little bit of exercise pushing the stroller there and back as well as running after Christine and lifting her onto the play structures. We've also done a little bit of much needed yard work last weekend, so it's starting to look more and more like spring/summer out there! We've also gone to the library once or twice, and to the Early Years Center for some playgroup time. We recently became members at the YMCA, so have gone there a couple of times (I joined the >60 crowd for an AquaFit class last week while Nicholas was at playcare and yoga today with both of them at playcare). On top of that, during naps, I've managed to piece together a baby quilt for Nicholas as he didn't have anything to really call his own yet. On the weekends, we've kept busy as well, with a return trip to the sugar bush and play dates at the park. Christine has been absolutely whipped with all the exercise and fresh air!! I wish the weather would stay like this all summer vs. getting so much hotter and humid... I have a feeling Nicholas will like heat about as much as I do...

Christine goes to daycare a couple of days a week (Wednesdays and Fridays), so Nicholas and I get a little bit more time together those days. Unfortunately for him, we've been doing a lot of our errands those days, so he spends quite a bit of time in his car seat. He doesn't seem to mind though - he's pretty portable! We go to Baby Talk at the Health Unit every Wednesday morning to hang out with other moms and babies and get him weighed and measured. He's growing way too quickly... he's already almost 25" long and weighs 13 lbs 10.5 oz... sigh... We also try to do laundry and get groceries on Fridays so that we don't have to do that during the weekend. We'll see how long I can keep that up with him.

We have a long list of things we'd like to do around the house this summer, starting (hopefully next week) with getting our downstairs bathroom redone. When that is under way, I'll post. We're also hoping to get a play structure for the backyard so that we can play in the backyard as well, maybe build a new deck (at least a new surface), fix our awning, maybe put in a few new windows downstairs, fix or replace our shed... the list goes on... I don't know how things will be prioritized as we probably can't afford to do all that during my maternity leave... It's a good thing I took out my stock before the leave!! It'll certainly get put to good use.

Anyway, that's it for now. I actually got to write this post all in one sitting! I'm surprised...