The park

Not much has happened since the last entry, got up this morning and looked at the internet was surprised to see that Lance Armstrong had done a bike ride in Paisley, it looked pretty busy. The picture on the Scotsman internet site was up the high street, I wonder if he cycled past the co-op. Maybe my Dad got to see him, must remember to ask at the weekend. He is staying in Paisley too somewhere up the school wynd by the looks of it. Excellent.

Nothing much to tell you about as I said, swimming lessons going well, the plan now is once the babies are used to submersion, the next stage is to submerge them and then let them go propelling them towards someone else, so Steven is going to come into the water tomorrow.

Didn't do much today, I had to go up to the mall to buy something for dinner and bought a little jumper thing for Euan, I was very restrained today. Once Steven got home from work, we went up to the park which is next to the house to put Euan onto the swings, he seemed to quite like it for a few minutes and then he became very un-impressed with the whole situation. We went on the see saw and then came home, among a nice little walk in the trees which he seemed to like.

Steven is off for the next 2 days, tomorrow is the swimming lesson at 5 so we cant really go to far for too long, and not sure what we will have planned for Friday, hopefully something nice. I have some videos to post, mainly videos from the park and one from him on his activity centre, and one while we were blowing some bubbles around. There is one picture too basically of the pool at our complex, it just looked so nice tonight!

Saturday

Dont have much to say really. Euan is asleep right now lying over my left arm, when he wakes up its going to be feeding time. I dont have any plans today which is nice, Steven and I have been fighting a viral infection for a few weeks and i would like nothing better right now than going to bed for a nap... ah sounds like bliss.
I got 6 dvds out of the video shop last night so will watch something this afternoon when euan is in bed for his nap. Last night we watched 'Stone of Destiny' it was pretty poor, Steven thinks its taken over from Sliding Doors as his worst film EVER!!!
The only other exciting thing to happen is that we now have a family GP, 3 years in Canada and we have managed to find a GP its great! Looking at some websites for a bigger house with a garden, so who knows we may be house hunting soon.
Hope you all have a great weekend, off to feed the boy!

The torpedo

Steven was off today so it was nice, we went to a recycling place to return lots of pop bottles and cans, we stood in line next to lots of smelly bottle bums and dumpster divers to get our grand sum of $5.35. We are going to save it and then treat ourselves to something nice.
We also decided to go to a store selling lots of british crap and spent $116 on baked beans, soup, an assortment of crisps and sweets and some out of date taxi biscuits, jammie dodgers and salad cream, what a bargain!!! Euan was rather taken with a golliwog toy, but thought we probably should not buy it for him although he did like it. See pic above... the everton part was for Stevens sister in law Julie.
Today was lesson #4 of 10 in the swimming lessons and he did brilliantly today, he was submerged under the water about 8 times.. and seemed to quite like it, i also got to wear some goggles as the instructor ducked him under towards me twice and i could see his face, the idea is that they see your face and it relaxes the babies, needless to say Euan was looking at something else but he seemed fine.

Lazy days

I have not left the house since Friday and its now Tuesday, have spent the days watching tv and generally relaxing, I was tired and Euan was too so we have had some lazy days. I have a swimming lesson today so I need to leave the house reasonably soon to get there. I thought I would upload some videos of Euan for the folks at home to see, esp Mum and Dad. I have one of him feeding, and one on the jolly jumper, one of some fart noises and when Steven gets home will put one on of Euan laughing (to show mum and dad that he does laugh and smile)

I am starting to get stressed out thinking about childcare we have no idea what we are going to do with him, I still have 7 months before going back to work so i should try and not stress about it for a wee while yet but its hard not too. I am actually quite looking forward to getting out more and being back at work, although i am sure when i am back i will wish i was off again. I am trying to look for another job with no nights and weekends to make it a bit easier but there are actually not many nursing jobs out there right now either.

Anyway will upload the vids and then bash on, got some washing to do...

Swimming lessons

So as you can see, i have not been writing too much. Basically I have not been doing anything besides swimming with Euan and trying to keep cool. The weather has been really good but far too hot, its been over 30 degrees in the house at night time so trying to sleep is pretty hard. Euan has been suffering the most, he has been practically naked for days and we have fans in all the rooms, which have not made much difference. Thankfully its now a little cooler so doing a few more things around town, went into Vancouver today to a record store, and to the apple shop so Steven could buy some ear phones. We carried Euan in our Ergo baby carrier which was nice. Not much else has happened we are still feeding Euan, the mornings are great with his rice cereal but his solid in the afternoon is not going down so well, we have tried carrots and sweet potato and neither were a winner, we will keep going. This week I had a girl round, Francis and her little girl Elise who I met at the music class so that was nice, we had a nice playdate, Euan and Elise were holding hands so it was very sweet. The most exciting thing to happen this week is we started swimming lessons, its every tues and thurs evening for 5 weeks, and apparently by the end, Euan should be able to swim to the edge of the pool which I am very dubious about, and he should be very used to submersion in the water.... hmmm I am not convinced. Steven is off tomorrow and was trying to convince him to head to the outlet mall in the states, but he is being sensible telling me that the last thing we need is to go on a shopping spree. He is right, but it would be nice.