Rowan is a Menace

It was Thursday today. I decided to see how long I could just putter around the house without having to go out as it was rather hot again. Our house stays moderately cool, so I like staying in it. Plus - I really hate putting on sunscreen every day - and then having to do Ellis and Rowan too. I seriously wonder what the chemicals in sunscreen are doing to our skin. I just know in a couple of years they are going to find out that sunscreen is bad for you. The UV index gets really high here though - on super cloudy Monday Cyp heard that it was extreme - 14. I think it gets up to about 7 in Vancouver at the worst. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_index - Ok, I shouldn't have just read that link - now I'm all paranoid.

Anyway, I tried to keep the kids entertained by moving to different areas of the house. Rowan just whined and followed me around. I kept feeding him to stop him from whining and he kept eating. Left over beans an rice for breakfast, then oatmeal, then watermelon, then an entire orange, the crackers, crackers, crackers. Oh and he ate Ellis's toast and jam. I think he was so whiny because he was hungry. I guess I'd better start feeding him a more regular breakfast and lunch.

I would try to play with them, but Rowan just barges his way into everything and then stuffs whatever we are playing with into his mouth. This is a bit of a problem. So at around 11, I told Ellis to play quietly while I tried to get Rowan to nap. This mostly works. Ellis likes to come and show me things while I'm nursing Rowan. Eventually though, he fell asleep and Ellis and I could play Hullaballoo and do puzzles uninterrupted. We did the Knights puzzle from G. Anita. We both decided it is a bit of a challenge. At 100 pieces it kinda took it out of us. Rowan woke up at 1 and he hung out in the kitchen with me while Ellis did marble works. Every once in a while I'd hear:

"NOOOOOOOOOOO! AAAAiEEEEY"

as Rowan had made his way into Ellis room and was proceeding to destroy Ellis's masterpiece.

At 3 I decided it was safe to head out and we walked to the convenience store. I wanted stamps. Ellis spied the lollies and I foolishly bought him one. On the way home he said:

"hey hey mummy,.... this is candy." (Ellis precedes everything with hey these days)

"yes - it is"

"you shouldn't buy me candy - you're a bad mummy."

yes.

He seemed to enjoy it, bad as it was. It gave him the energy to walk up the hill. On our walk I noted that our neighborhood is crawling with spiders. They are everywhere. Shudder.

Tanya told me not to kill the brown fuzzy ones (the one I squished). They are likely huntsmen spiders and eat the bad spiders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_back_spider

Tonight we had scalloped potatoes and ham. It was delicious. We had a good swim after dinner.