Happy Summer!

Whew! I hardly know where to begin today. It seems that summer has finally started in earnest for me now that it's August. The first week or so was spent visiting with family and friends in lovely weather.

Yes, those are babies and beer in the pool - it could hardly be one or the other!

Last Tuesday the chimp and I made our first overnight forray into cottage country with some awesome teacher friends of mine and it was FABULOUS! I thought that maybe there would be some trouble with the chimp sleeping in the playpen for the first time in unfamiliar surroundings, but, of course, she was a total champ; completely accommodating so that mummy and her friends could enjoy their adult beverages and catch up with one another.

Yes, this is what (some/many) teachers do with their summers off. That's why we get them. Nobody can be as good as we have to be all year round without blowing off a little steam. (Want proof? Check out the Catholic church!)

The day after we got home, the hubby and I discovered that the chimp has got her first teeth coming in - the two bottom front teeth. She's generally a pretty good baby, so we've been spoiled and now her irritability is starting to wear us down. Hopefully it won't be too much longer though. She's going to be so freakin' cute once they come in!

On Saturday we had Mojo's 7th birthday party and, of course, it rained. Not all day. Just in the afternoon while we were having her party. That's okay though, since the kids were swimming anyway, we figured they wouldn't mind getting wet and they didn't. It was a riot. The best line of the day: "I'm a torpedo myself, actually." Try saying that with a straight face.

The kids had a great time swimming, smashing the bejesus out of the pinata and hula hooping their foul brains out. Not a bad time despite the rain.

While the hubby is off this week on vacation, we have plans for a trip to Canada's Wonderland (a now annual trip with Mojo. Last year I was pregnant and couldn't go on any of the rides -- BORING! This year I'm being replaced with Mojo's uncle and his girlfriend since, once again, I'd be standing on the sidelines with the chimp), and some time up at the cottage.

Coming up after that will be the chimp's Christening and my mum's birthday and then the summer is pretty much over. Where the heck does the time go? One minute you're twiddling your thumbs and then next minute you can hardly find time to check your email! I'll take busy over bored on most days though. Just as long as I get a bit of down time now and then.

Hope everybody else is having as good a summer as we are!! Happy Summer!