It's been a long weekend

Augie is off from dagis today and tomorrow because they have planning days, and also because most of the city is on fall holiday this week. We've had a couple of rough nights, with both boys breaking down at the same time and James and I exchanging one screaming child for another. For nearly two weeks now, Leif has a period of 1-4 hours every night when he just doesn't want to sleep, but nor does he want to be awake. Sometimes he's okay during this period, sometimes he's screaming, sometimes he's nursing, sometimes he's refusing. It's been trying. It's also the main reason I haven't been posting.

Some photos from the last few days...

James got his guitar out and has been playing with/for Augie, who loves it (spot the baby!):

Yesterday we went to a really cool park with all sorts of different play areas - he most loved the boat and the airplane:

Today we went to a 4-H farm to show Augie some real-life animals, as he sees pictures of them in books and has several stuffed and plastic animals. He thought they were neat, but what he really enjoyed was the adjacent construction site! The playground in the park is being rebuilt, and there was all sorts of activity going on - a bulldozer, bucket loader, a buzz saw(?) shooting sparks - Augie just stood at the fence, staring, for fifteen minutes! It's the longest he's ever focused on anything in his whole life.