What. A. Scorcher. As beautiful as July 2015 was, we spent many days indoors, basking in the air conditioning - it's just been too hot and too dry to spend lots of time outside. We did have a few dates at the Duke of Sutherland splash pad, and a few swims at the Prins' new swimming pool, not to mention a couple of dips in our ever-deflating kiddie pool - but mostly, it's been a lazy indoor summer because it's just too darn hot! Not to complain - we'd rather this hot weather than a dry -30 - but sometimes, it's just too hot.
The beginning of July was exciting for all of us because Uncle Louis drove all the way from Ottawa to live with us for a few months. Lexi loved seeing her uncle from the moment he arrived, and clear as day began excitedly asking "where Louis? Where Louis?" If we had ever been concerned about her ability to pronounce names, it was completely squelched with her pronunciation of "Louis" - clear as day. Louis quickly secured work at JBS, and found an apartment with Shelly's brother Stew - all answers to prayers. God is good! Especially good is His timing - we would have never believed it if it didn't happen to us: on Saturday night, at 4:30 in the morning (so I guess Sunday morning), Louis ran upstairs and woke us up, exclaiming that the basement was flooding. Our regional water hose mysteriously (and impossibly) became unattached - and if Louis hadn't have been sleeping in the basement, we wouldn't have known for at least another 3 hours when Lance woke up - by which time our basement would have been under at least 3 feet of water. Thank God Louis was in the basement, helping us to avert a huge crisis! The cleanup wasn't even that bad. It was a pretty comical hour and a half of our lives, waiting for a Regional Water representative to come shut off our access, during which Louis was holding the hose toward the basement window, watching gallons and gallons of water pour out. We did manage to get a few laughs out of the entire situation.
In baby news, our little pickle is now 17 weeks along in Mama's belly and is twisting and turning up a storm, mostly in the evenings when Mama lies down to sleep. July has been an exhausting month pregnancy-wise, and many naps have been had, not to mention a lack of nutritious meals. Even Daddy exclaimed, "I'm getting fat because my wife isn't cooking!" There are too many excuses not to cook - it's too hot out, I'm too pregnant and I'm having too many food aversions. Honestly, this baby has been sucking the life out of Mama - she's feeling pretty down and out. Maybe returning to school in a month and getting back into routine will be helpful - shame on Mama for even thinking about that! Time to capitalize on the rest of vacation time!
Mama finished a two-week run of Tumbleweed Theatres Shakespeare in the Park, a western rendition of Romeo and Juliet. It was so much fun to get involved in community theatre again, although the pulls of an outside commitment were very trying. It will probably be a few years again before Mama gets involved in any more theatre.
Lexi is chattering away, her vocabulary increasing so much that others are pointing it out. One of her favourites new words is "goggles" - pronounced "gumgumgumgumgum." We spent the last weekend of July at Lake McGregor with the Hopfs and both Daniels families - Lexi's entire weekend was spent with a pair of goggles on her forehead. She loved bouncing on the inflated tube, telling Dada "nigh night," encouraging him to close his eyes, and bouncing down to wake him up.
July has been a tough month, but it's been a lot of fun. Praise be for all the blessings we encounter every day!
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