Just a quick post to keep track of our comings and goings. Maia is asleep right now a bit later than usual; we spent the morning in East Lansing and Lansing, with the main objective of visiting Maia's Great-Nannie in the hospital. We also visited Nana Dawn's office, and shared a lunch with Nana and Papa before leaving to return home.
It's Ann Arbor Art Fair time, so we're avoiding downtown but still squeezing in as many visits to the Kerrytown area (no art there!) and our oodles of parks as much as we can. Just yesterday, Maia went to Kerrytown (AM coffee for me is a must), then to County Farm Park with Nana Dawn (while I taught a class), and then to our neighborhood park immediately down the street. It was a busy day, but in a good way--all the time outside is giving Maia a slight tan on her arms and legs, which I always consider a sign of a summer well-spent. :)
It's going to be nasty hot for the rest of this week, and I've never been terribly fond of hot weather. As I've explained before, I've had to change my habits somewhat in order to give Maia the fresh air and time outdoors that she needs. I'm dressing in cooler clothes (tank tops, shorts, and a couple of dresses, rather than the ubiquitous capri pants), and adjusting our AC to maintain the house at about 80 degrees rather than 70-ish has helped make the outside heat and humiditiy less of a shock to the system. It's about 90 degrees here today and is going to be at least that through the end of the week, so, while I'm not thrilled that the AC is running, I hope to moderate it somewhat by running it less intensely and spending as much time outdoors as we can.
This has been one of the notable ways that being a parent has changed an aspect of how I live. While I could have predicted some of the other changes (interrupted sleep, changed eating habits, etc.), this one has been a surprise to me. But Maia really does seem to need it, being the energetic, curious, persistent, always-in-motion kid that she is. Plus, our "no TV before Maia is two" rule certainly makes it challenging to find enough things to do inside the house to fill up a day! (We stick to that one quite consistently, and to us it means that we don't have a TV on in the house while she's awake, even if she's not actually watching it.)
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Seems to me that all kids are energetic, curious, always-in-motion... Seems to me that all of us should be, anyway, no matter how old we are - and we all definitely benefit from time spent outdoors and active. If it takes a kid to remind us of that, so be it!
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