our week

we had a great week in Orangeville! It went by too quickly and this is the first time that I've been away with the boys that CO isn't begging to go home at least 24 hours before I was planning to actually head home. Taking the trailer I think helped everyone stay rested which probably helped as usually  he is overtired and just wanting to go home to his puppy. CO was asking me many times on the drive home to turn around and go back.

Annette and I took the kids to the trails behind my old house with all our bicycles. It was WONDERFUL! I wish those trails had been there when I lived there. I would have been out on them daily! Here is CO riding his two wheeler (no training wheels) along the wooden part of the path. He has an empty water bottle shoved into his back tire (it makes a buzzing/humming noise when he rides) and I was always able to hear him even if he was up ahead a bit out of sight. My dad put the baby carrier on my bicycle so I was able to have J on the back.

(here is CO taking a break along the water..yes I know his helmet needs to go down more on his head...he keeps pushing it back so I guess I need to do some strap tightening)

On the last day I loaded up the three older kids (J decided he needed a morning nap) and took them to a BMX park.  The boys LOVED it! CO was nervous of the big hills at first (reflecting the same feelings of the little girl E and they would push their bikes up the hills, ride down dragging their feet and then do the same for the next hill) but the more he tried, and will lots of encouragement from mom he was able to do the whole course without falling by the end.

I can't get the video to load up...so I put it on youtube...click the link below to watch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJf5NWGl_Ig



(please excuse my loudness...I am standing on the hill he kept falling on so was full of encouragement and praise when he conquered the hill)

So we are home again (well none of us are home...since the boys are each at different sitter's for the weekend and I am at work) and we need to decide on our next adventure. Hauling the trailer behind my truck was less complicated than I thought it would be so I am willing to haul it in the future. I just need to have someone at the other end that can back up and park the trailer for me :) (so far I only drive forward). Maybe this fall I can practice my backing up skills with the trailer.

I can't believe that there are only a couple of weeks of summer left. My August allergies have arrived this weekend...so hopefully I am able to keep the symptoms at bay so we can still do lots of fun outside. I have no idea what it is that is setting them off (I haven't really looked into it either) but I think it is funny that overnight I am sneezing and have major itchy eyes.

No luck so far with the nanny hunt...please keep this in your prayers...come the end of the summer I don't have childcare...sigh