The new au pairs are working out nicely. Since early July we've had three days each week of child care. Despite the extra time we still feel run off our feet. I've been spending most of my child care time working even though I'm on parental leave. I've also taken some time to catch up on my armchair punditry blogging. Greta has been doing everything else required to keep the house together (including cooking for two additional adults), plus a huge amount of canning and freezing (strawberry jam, concord grape jam, concord grape juice, peach chutney, crab apple sauce, etc.).
We've also been agonizing over what to do with our lives and where to live while we're doing it. Greta has been drawing 3D models of our house in Google Sketchup so we can better visualize our dream house or potential renovations to our current house. We've also been looking at real estate in the middle of nowhere.
Max and Darwyn are proceeding apace. Darwyn has entered super-cute phase. She still cannot sit up by herself. She loves to watch Max and play with plants. A regular nap schedule is slowly emerging. On good days she'll take two or three long naps, which makes life much easier for everyone. Max is in the process of dropping his afternoon nap, which makes for some trying times. His potty training has improved dramatically but he still has the occasional accident.
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| Our new au pairs acting naturally for the camera up at the river. |
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| Max and Ella on our backyard swing (before it broke). Some cute photos to follow below. |
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| Ella dumps sand onto Max's head. Both kids thought this was hilarious. We heard about it for days. |
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| Ella's brother Daxton is 10 weeks older than Darwyn. I like this shot of him. |
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| Our drowned rat of a dog up at the river. I like this shot. |
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| Max got to ride a pony at the farm where we play soccer up near the river. That was cool. |
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| Greta carried all this food and Max on her bike...with some help from the chariot of course. |
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| Max's first tinkertoy construction. |
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| Max was a little uneasy about the water... |
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| ...as you can see. |
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| Amolia holds Darwyn. Amolia and her sister Marie-Sol are Max's friends up at the river. |
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| Marie-Sol holds Max while Amolia holds Drawyn. They love our kids and we love it when they love our kids. |
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