Yellow River

We've spent the last few Sundays at Yellow River Park. It's about half an hour from home and although officially "closed" for renovation (Yeah, we don't understand that either) has been a haven from the August heat. The "Swimming in the Pool" (Winnie the Pooh) Ball sent from Grandma and Grandpa May many months ago is finally seeing some action. It's the best for flowing down the river and not getting lost in the waterfalls.

Hoping McKay is coming out of the "terrible twos" but no sign in sight. A few weekends ago was the worst weekend since he was born for the tired and daunted parents. I think we need to head out to the bookstore, most of our "parenting" books don't have much to say about this. We all know independence is good and to "let him DO it", but holy cow, 5 time outs and 3 temper tantrums before the coffee was made?

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True Patriot Love

Finally (now that he's almost 3) received Mckay's proof of Canadian Citizenship.
Strange, he is automatically Canadian, but we had to apply for him to have proof (since he was born in the US he doesn't have a Canadian Birth Certificate. We had to send his application, ID to prove I was Canadian, and three pieces of ID for him. Finding three pieces of legal ID (and not crafts from school) for a two year old is not easy.

Next step is his Canadian passport, and start working on citizenship for Dan. We're all starting to get a bit homesick for the "True North". Now we just have to find jobs, sell the house, and figure out how to get all our pets and stuff 4500km away. Google says this will take 2 days, 0 hours.

Grandma lives at ATL

Had a midweek adventure this week by visiting Grandma Cokey at her weekend home at ATL.

She was flying through to Jacksonville and had a 4 hour layover at ATL, so us and our burb relatives The Coys made the trek out to the airport to give her a little bit of lovin'. Needless to say her Airtran flight from Midway was delayed. But this allowed us a leisurely dinner (with GREAT beer) at Six Feet Under (so named because it is across from the Oakland cemetery).


The Coy boys are growing up, it was great talking to them to give me a preview of the years down the road. I have to admit, 7yr old Jeffrey asking me "What rock bands do you like" caused a moment of silence. I asked at work the next day (most of the lab is young 20 things...) and the correct answer is "Green Day" or "Gwen Stefani". Oh well :)

I'm done for...

...if McKay is going to keep up this level of cute.

We were playing at the park after dinner tonight, and we told him we were going to go home to see if the neighbour kids were still playing in their front yard.

They weren't.

McKay was quite upset that he had to leave a perfectly serviceable playground to go back home to play with people that weren't even there. Lorraine said, "Oh, no, I think his heart is broken."

McKay said, "My heart is broken," then lifted up his shirt to expose his chest, and said, "see?"

Totally done for.