August?! *Edited*

I can't believe we're half way through August already. Summer is flying by and there's so much I need to post about! We've been keeping pretty busy, and I've been taking a TON of photos and videos with my new little camera. Problem is, either I haven't had time to dump the memory card (which is sooo not like me), or I'm on the lap top and cannot access the files (from the desk top).

In brief...

Littlebat is learning how to pedal his tricycle!

He has met many new friends this summer, and is becoming a total social butterfly.

Papabat and I have been making some hugely time-consuming, although fairly minor, improvements to the house - painting the kitchen and hallway, replacing all of the moulding and cabinet hardware, and doing a little decorating (and planning bigger changes to come).

Also, we went to an amusement park!

And took a train ride on the real, full-sized Thomas the Tank Engine!

We've been camping twice, and to a number of birthday parties.

Then there are all the little things: boating, fishing, visits with friends and family, playing in the sand and garden, trips to the park, swimming, etc...

So... pretty soon I'm going to put together a slide show to recap all of our summer adventures.

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In other news, as it is the middle of August, and as I had been thinking for a while that "later in the summer" and "sometime before he turns two" we would make a greater effort to potty train him, we've been doing just that, letting him run semi-nakee around the house, or sans diaper but with loose shorts. He likes to say no diepr, paadee when we talk about it. And he's doing AWESOME! When he has to go, or when we remind him that it's time, he goes into the bathroom and sits on his little potty all by himself - which is, coincidentally, how he prefers to do a lot of things these days. Nooo, meeeeee! Doan dooo dat! No push, no hep. I do it.

Ahem.

And finally, it looks like today is going to be the birthday of my cousin's little girl, Baybee. Baymom is in LABOR! RIGHT NOW!!! I'm eagerly awaiting the news.

*Not yet, but Baymom is resting comfortably after some pitocin and resulting epidural. She's moving pretty quickly, so we should have a little Baybee soon!