Even though it's not officially summer yet...or even summer break...it sure feels like it already is! The weather has been so beautiful lately - Nora and I go bike riding on the waterfront a couple times a week and we all eat dinner outside just about every night. Speaking of bike riding, I had what I consider to be my first real, back and forth conversation with Nora the other night. I was trying to get her to sleep and I said to her something along the lines of you need to get to sleep so we can have fun tomorrow and she said "bike ride!" I said "ok, we can go on a bike ride tomorrow," she said, "Mommy's bike!" (meaning she wanted to ride with me on my bike) and I said "ok" then she said "water! boats! geese!" So I said "oh, you want to ride down by the river?" and she said "yes! river - bike ride, river!" So there we go - she very effectively communicated exactly what she wanted to do...I was kind of surprised that she wanted to go to the river because the other route we regularly take is to the park, but apparently she likes the river route better.
We've also been doing lots of fun things around the house...like making popcorn. :) While making popcorn might not seem like the most exciting thing to you or me, to Nora and Henry it is a huge event.
We've been playing camping a lot as well...sometimes inside and sometimes outside. Nora usually refuses to play with us for some reason, but as soon as we're done she crawls into the sleeping bag. I can't figure out why she won't play with us and instead waits until we're done...but I'm sure she'll join in one day.
The nice weather is also allowing us to dip our toes in the potty training waters. Since Nora screams "no diaper! no diaper!" whenever I try to put a diaper on her, I figured she might be ready to give potty training a try. She runs around diaper-less and occasionally goes and sits on the potty, but hasn't yet successfully gone on the potty. She definitely understands the concept and what she's supposed to do I just don't think she has the control yet. With all our impending summer travels, I'm not to keen to really get it going just yet anyway.
This is Henry's last week of kindergarten. I cannot believe the year has flown by so quickly and soon he'll be a FIRST grader! He had field day this week and had a blast - I have pictures from that I will post soon.
Tomorrow Henry and I are heading to the Grand Floral Parade - Brett and Nora are staying home given Nora's aversion to loud noises. Should be a fun time!
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