Catching up...

I hate moving! But the moving and unpacking is all over now. We love the new house. J is learning to be handy getting everything set up for us. He owns his first power tool, a drill. R has been the accident queen and fallen on her head a couple of times. She likes her new room, probably because it doesn't resemble a cave like her last room did and she doesn't have to share it with boxes and a printer. She is also saying cheese and broom now. She is obsessed with the broom and likes to hold the dust pan while I sweep. She makes me sweep 3 or 4 times per day to get her broom addiction fix. My floors have never been cleaner! She also likes to open cabinets and sit inside of them, carry her purse on her shoulder when we go out and brush her hair and teeth.
Our neighborhood is way cute, I have been going on walks and looking at all of the cool old houses around. It has been so hot though (in the high 90s everyday). One day I wanted to walk to the grocery store instead of drive, thinking it wasn't very far. It was farther than I thought, of course, and I walked through sprinklers on my way home to cool R and I off.
I just bought a plane ticket to Chicago for August 4th, I will go there and then head to Ontario on a train after a few days. I am excited about this trip although the thought of taking R on a plane and a train in the same week sounds nightmarish. J will not be attending this vacation, he has to take classes for his CPA exam and study until he can't stand it anymore. I miss having my family (and my bestie Renee of course) around and I want to take R to the beach and the animal farm, etc. once we are in Canada.
I hope that everyone had a nice Canada Day or Independence Day. I celebrated with J and his brother. When I say celebrated, I mean we went to breakfast and just hung out and tried to have a relaxing weekend. We could see some fireworks from our house so we just watched them from the street.