05/09/06
A couple months ago the gardeners removed the juniper hedge by our stairs to give more
visibility to stairs. Our next door neighbors work odd hours. At least one of them is a local
security officer and so she's often working the graveyard shift. She didn't feel safe going
up and down the stairs with the big bushes there.
Now that they've been removed, there is
a nice solid dirt hill that is tempting for Sean.
He loves to run up and down it. Yesterday I caught some photographs of him playing on the
hill after we'd gotten home. At the end he also took some time to cool off by playing with
the hose. I didn't get any photographs of him playing with the hose.
Sean has learned how to turn the water on and off because of the toilet with the broken
float (to be fixed after Ian finishes his semester). Sean decided to see if the hose spout
would turn on the same way. It did and he was quickly splurted with water. Sean looked nervously
at me to see if he'd get in trouble. The look on his face was so funny that I started to
laugh. My laughter made everything okay and so I let him play with the hose for about five
minutes before herding him inside the house.
BookCrossing and Pregnancy:
Tonight is our monthly BookCrossing get-together in Dublin. Last year (or was it 2004?)
I purchased a tie dye shirt from the site that sports the site's logo. Two months ago the
shirt was too tight because of some initial bloating with the pregnancy. Now that I've been
eating much better (not perfectly but still much better), the shirt fits again, even with
my huge baby bump. By this time with Sean, I was already in maternity clothes and I'm not
with Harriet. I can tell from where she can kick and punch me that she's not much different
in size from Sean; it's just that I'm in better shape.
