summer - what happened to ye?

holy moly - it seems that every week i think "gee, i should update coco's blog". i begin by thinking of the fun things we've done recently and then flip through photos on my phone or camera. i often get distracted at that stage - cole likes to flip too, and he is a fast hand at running off with one's phone - and then i have to start all over again! or i download the photos (hurdle number one overcome - i should try out for track!) only to get an Important Email or a text from someone nice or realize it's time for dinner or what have you. see also: my ancient laptop decided that making tractor-like sounds and scalding my wrists wasn't enough and it should just break for once and for all. so i'm kind of surprised (but not really!) to see that it's been two months since my last post! eek! although posts about not posting are a little goofy, i guess i feel i have to acknowledge this delay.

anyway, i do in fact have veritable metric scads of cute photos and stories to tell. i might get to that first part first.

starting out fresh today. new laptop / up early / have tea / found iphone cable / sit down already... i'll make do for the moment by posting the first cute photos i came across:

 

 

i found some sparklers at the store recently and waited for an evening when cole was up past his usual not-dark-yet bedtime. i 'm not sure what age i first used sparklers, but i clearly remember that lovely smell, the glow, those little sparks shooting off into the velvety night sky. i think he loved them as much as i did as a kid - and i loved them nearly as much now!

fashon styles

coco recently rediscovered the babylegs leg warmers he was given as a wee baby (thanks kim!). they are proving much more long-lived than i expected, now that they're popping up as fashion attire. small folks dressing themselves is one of my favourite things to see - the wacky combinations and small touches, like rain boots and leg warmers on what was the hottest day (so far!) of the year.

the other day we went for a walk to the far park - confederation, as opposed to the near park at alpha secondary. the near park apparently doesn't count for coco, despite the football field sized space of green grass and the delightful short barely one block walk to get there. the lack of bucket swings is monumental - it will not do. don't tell him you're going to the park and take him there with a bike and a ball and a picnic and expect to go home afterwards. oh no - you are still expected to locate bucket swings to fulfill the park promise. some stamping may ensue, which will be frustrating and funny at the same time and, he may be beginning to realize,.ultimately ineffectual. top tips! but the far park is just a short sixish block wagon ride away. he will lay in the wagon pretending to nap (why, why children, do you find pretending to nap so awesome?) and then ride the bucket swing for half an hour or so. next up: locating the miniature train that runs there on weekends for a mere $2.50, or so i hear!

san francisc oh fun

san franscisco!  unlike all of our vacations, i've actually made an effort to put up photos of this one!  the problem always is that i take so many that it becomes a burdensome task to choose and so i don't do it.  but this time - here we are, enjoying one of the few places in america that i could imagine moving to.  fun at the beach, the piers, husband-suggested tours of not only a submarine but also a ww2 ship, cable car rides, trips to golden gate park, rides on carousels, the antique arcade, many miles of walking, many calories in the form of ice cream and lots and lots of fun.