For those of you not from Toronto (or not familiar with the CNE) - its a fair - originally an agricultural fair but has now morphed to an amusement fair with rides, games, shows, etc. Its an 18 day fair taking place every August concluding on Labour Day weekend with a weekend long air show.Since we only live about 1/2hr walk from the fair we headed out with the girls in their stroller
walking along the lake. We arrived at the CNE just in time for Ed and I to grab some lunch from the food pavilion (a couple of Gyros) and sit outside in the shade to enjoy them before it was time to fed the girls. After lunch we walked around the fair for a bit and then headed back home along the lake while the air show was going on. Everything was fine when the planes were propeller but as we were approaching the house, they brought out the jets and the noise from them kept startling the girls and after a couple of planes having gone by Rowan and Gwen were in a crying frenzy.Sunday, Kelly and Tracy had a drop in for friends and family to say goodbye before heading of to PEI. The house was full of people - and the girls attracted a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the girls were a bit grump as they had a bad night. Rowan has learned to rollover from back-to-tummy when ever she pleases - which is all the time whether it's day or night. After a
while of being on her tummy she cries for someone to roll her back (as she can't do tummy-to-back on demand) - which is fine during the day - but at 2am isn't quite as cute. Of course she thinks it's a great game and full of giggles which make it hard to be mad. However, on Saturday night we tried the old "let them cry it out" - hoping she would find a comfortable
position on her tummy and go back to sleep. It didn't work - she started crying hysterically which woke up her sister. So we don't be trying the "let them cry it out" theory again - unless we first separate them. Lessoned learned.Rowan was back at Sick Kids for another check up on her hip - her brace has been off for two months now and everything still looks good. She'll have to go back for another visit at a year just to make sure that as she learns to crawl and toddle everything is growing correctly around her hip. It's alway upsetting going to Sick Kids as all the patients are children (hence the name of the hospital) and while we're in the waiting rooms we invariably get into conversions with other parents. And listening to their stories always grounds us (and stops us from getting frustrated with the waiting times.).
The end of August also meant the end of our night nurse, Hyacinth. The morning she left I had a mild panic attack as I realized there would be no guaranteed full night sleeps coming
up. Even though for the month of August the girls had been sleeping pretty much through the night - knowing that Hyacinth as coming a couple of nights a week was a comfort. However, Ed reminded me that it wasn't going to be like it was before Hyacinth was here where the girls were getting up 3 times a night and we were getting little to no sleep - the girls were only 5weeks old when we first hired Hyacinth. The good thing is Hyacinth isn't leaving the country - if we need her back for a couple of nights if things start getting rough she is still around. She has also offered to baby sit if we want to go out for dinner and a movie. Which is a wonderful idea - it seems like such a long time ago that we use to go out all the time. Seeing movies right when they were released (now I'm not sure what's playing) and we ate out more than we ate in. So I'm anxiously working on date.
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