A Sunshiny Thursday

What a day!  It's days like today that make you fall in love with our city.  Big bright sun, nice warm breeze and plenty of ice cream stores!  Sam and I met a former student of mine for a visit at her family's cafe.  Her mom gave Sam a baby ice cream cone, but the warm weather made it melt really fast so I had to help him.  That's a quality of a good mommy!!!  We had a really great chat about her moving away to Edmonton to go to school.  This girl was one of my babies... you know, the type of student that you dream for your own children to be just like.  I'm so happy and excited for her, but I'm sad she will be hard to visit.  Makes me wonder how her mom is feeling... I can't even begin to imagine.  I'm having a hard enough time dealing with the thought of leaving my baby with a good friend of mine every other day.  This mom gig is tough.  I guess I just have to believe that he's a really great little boy and that he'll be fine with this new arrangement.  That there are so many things to learn from other babies and other adults, and he'll love being away and LOVE when I come to get him.


We had some fun in the evening sun tonight...

Sam takes his new 737 for a ride around the house.

A summer tradition has been to walk to the mailbox in the afternoon.  Sam carries the keys and we walk the block to the box.  He quickly learned which box was ours, that you put a key in and to turn the key.  He even will grab all the stuff out if he can reach it.  He takes this chore very seriously.

After getting the mail, we walk across the road to the walking path that divides our community from the railroad tracks.  From here we can also see Highway 2.  For a little boy, this is a very exciting adventure.  We wave and point and say hi to what ever is driving past.

Since we've never had sprinkler fun, and who knows how many warm nights we have left, we decided to have some water fun after supper. 

Best idea ever!

Snuggle in the low sun before heading in for bed time.