It is hot and humid. For me that means the mornings out on the deck with the twins with either the water table or blow-up pool and by about 11.30 it is just too much and we head indoors. Luckily they nap from 1-4pm but it is still horrible and humid in the afternoon until around 7.30pm! Eleni is at pre-school during the week and when I pick her up she is just a sweat-box covered in bits of mulch from the playground.
June did see us take our road trip to St Louis to visit the Politis side of the family. The drive was about 15 hours each way and remarkably the kids were fantastic (thank goodness for lots of Wiggles DVD’s). There are so many things to do with kids in St Louis – The Magic House, Grants Farm, The Butterfly House and of course the local parks and the community swimming pool. We didn’t even get to the Zoo or some of the museums. Days were busy and the kids had lots of trantrums to make sure everyone knew they were now two years old.
We had a family birthday party for Leo and Sofia – they were totally spoilt with gifts and attention. Eleni got her fair share too!
This year we went to the local 4th July celebrations at Stanardsville. Eleni’s school mates wore their tie-die shirts and we all paraded down the main drag. Did I mention it was hot and humid! The kids all had a bag of sweets that they threw to the people lining the road-side.
Christos is now in San Diego where he is enjoying himself at a conference for a week. We would have all loved to have gone but it was too expensive and too hard to do with the three kids. So he gets a nice break although I know he will miss the kids a lot.
Oh – and I have to mention some quotes from Eleni
1. Whilst driving past the oil refineries in West Virginia she says “Mummy look at all those space ships!”
2. When told Daddy was going to be in San Diego she says “Will he see Diego there?” – For those that don’t know the kids shows Dora and Diego this won’t make sense.
Finally and update on Sofia’s potty training – I think today we turned a corner with no accidents and lots of “I did it’s”. Tomorrow is the start of week 2 and we have to work on her pulling up her pants which will be a challenge as she does not like to wear any clothes and as it is so hot I have obliged her on this one for a while.
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