highlights

it's been awhile, so here are some highlights from the last few days:

1) my mom, a.k.a. "uma", is here! we are loving the company and help.

2) we found a wading pool at the parc la fontaine. definitely a hit with a certain someone...


3) i made a friend! her name is julia, and she speaks russian as her first language, french as her second, and english as her third. despite this, we still had the majority of our conversation in english. slightly embarrassing, but whatever. she has a little boy named sasha who is a year younger than wes and has about the best hair ever. wish i had a pic, but i forgot my camera...promise they are not just figments of my imagination! anyways, we met at the park and hit it off the way moms tend to do...she tied wes' shoe for me when my hands were full with the gwads, and one thing led to another. picnic lunch, walking home together, etc. kind of like an awkward first play date times 10 with the language barrier. picture wes hitting sasha and apologizing in enlgish with sasha staring blankly back (since he only speaks russian and french and isn't even 2 yet, poor limited soul). needless to say, the boys and moms hit it off despite the communication difficulites, and wes keeps asking to play with him. cute.

4) mom babysat last night, so bob and i walked up to the montreal jazz festival, which is the largest in the world. jazz connoisseurs and large-crowd enjoyers we are not, but we still had a great time people-watching and pretending to be music critics. bob learned that an untucked shirt and a phone clipped to your belt is not a good look...in fact, is a phone on your belt ever a good look?


5) uma took wes on a tram tour of the pier. wes refused to get off said tram. what is it with boys and modes of transportation???

6) sunday morning wes slept until 9:30 and georgia until 8:30. i have no idea what posessed them both to sleep a good 4 hours longer than normal, but i will not question it. truly it was the Lord's day. needless to say, we are back to 5am around here now.

7) more fireworks! we love that we can see them from the condo.



8) an arts festival is happening around the corner from us in the gay district. we happened upon it on our way to the previously- blogged- about favorite french bakery (we did purchase a small painting). i am trying to resist getting my hair cut at the salon next to the bakery that advertises "lesbian haircuts." what???

dad, a.k.a. "bump" comes in tomorrow to get crazy in quebec!