Chilly Monday, Voting Time and Crib Climbing…

It’s a chilly morning here on the island. According to a website I’m consulting, it’s -13 out there, and the winchill is -26. Needless to say, it was a cold, cold morning at the bus stop today. Thankfully the heat is cranked up at work and I’m starting to thaw out and should be all right by the time my shift starts. I start an hour earlier than usual today, because today happens to be election day here in Canada. So in accordance to election law, I have to be let out 3 hours before the polls close, which means I start and finish an hour early and that gives me three hours from work finish to make it to the polls. The way the weather is today, there might be a lot turn out at the polls today cause people don’t want to freeze their asses off while waiting to vote. I’ll be sure to remember my mittens cause I’m not going to pass up the chance to vote today. I’m pretty much decided on who I’m going to support, so after work I’ll bundle up and hit the polls after I have supper.

I wanted Leah to come out to the polls with me, but she’s not going to make it. My mom, myself and Leah decided that it’s best if she goes out to visit her mom this week while my Mom is here to take care of Ethan with me. That way she’ll have a chance to introduce her mom to Jonathan, and spend some time with family for the first time since the new baby arrived. Leah seemed receptive to this idea, so today she’s going to take Jonathan out home and visit her mom for a few days. She’s coming back either on Wednesday or Thursday. Leah hasn’t been out to visit since October, and missed the big holidays as well, so it’s good that she’s getting a chance to go out and visit but she can’t take Ethan out cause she’s incapable of taking both kids with her cause that would just be too stressing on her, especially since she would be on her own to take care of them.

Speaking of the kids, Ethan has been a little terror the last few days. He refused to take a nap yesterday and stayed up pretty much the entire day He started to tear up his books, so Mom and Leah took them away, and then when it was time to go to bed for the night, Ethan learned how to climb out of his crib and then started to run out into the living room every five minutes. This new skill was not met with much joy, as we put him back to bed over and over and over and over again until he finally gave up and went to sleep. Now that Ethan is capable of getting out of the crib on his own, it’s going to be really tough to enforce nap and bed times, but we’ll have to be firm with him and make sure he goes back to bed whenever he escapes from his room. It’s going to be trying on everyone involved, but we’ll have to be tough with him, and make sure he realizes that when he goes to bed, it’s time to go. But Ethan is just being a regular two year old, and they all have these terror moments, so you can’t get upset or angry at Ethan for being a pain the last few days. We’ll just have to deal with it and move on.

So besides that, things are all right here on the island. I think Leah will do all right with some time out home and Mom and I will have a chance to take care of Ethan and his crib climbing abilities while she’s gone and give him our undivided attention… after I hit the polls to vote of course. Hope everyone else has an all right monday and I’ll be around.

Peter