We just got back from a 9 day trip to Calgary for the Stampede - most excellent! We stayed with Trevor's parents and did all sorts of awesome things. We went to a chuckwagon race and a rodeo, ate way too much fattening fair food (corn dogs! deep-fried oreos and cheesecake!), and did some outdoorsy stuff. We went to Kananaskis and hiked around for an afternoon - breathtaking sights and so much fresh air. Ben was an angel, of course, and behaved himself on both flights, even our return, where we sat on the runway sweating to death while they tried to fix the A/C, then hung around for another 1.5 hours in the terminal, before we finally left....
Ben will be (holy shit) 9 months old next week! He is a crawling champ, and crawled up stairs for the first time in the backyard... He still has only the 6 teeth, eats everything we give him, and generally is sleeping through the night... basically, he's a perfect baby :)
We spent today in the backyard, tending to our vegetable garden which exploded with growth while we were gone, and did some sunning next to the pool. Unfortunately, the pool is currently green and algae-riffic, due to some chlorine issues... hopefully it will be back up and running before the weekend. I applied sunscreen, but not too perfectly as I now have a splotchy sunburn on my chest... ugh...
