Barn Sighting

WEEK

4

According to this week's BabyCenter, parents of perfectly healthy children can experience feelings of disappointment for various reasons. Aside from disappointment that the gender wasn't what she'd hoped, a mom might be sad that the baby "looks like an exact clone of Daddy and not one bit like her". Well Scott surely doesn't look like anyone's clone at this point. In fact, we can't really pick out any features that seem obviously from one side of the family or the other. I think he's got the tiny ears that I have, but that's a tough call. I suppose I'll be a little diappointed if the ears thing doesn't work out, but I'm not too stressed out about it yet.

Here's a tale of real disappointment: We wanted to go down to the river, but we locked ourselves out of the house, so we ended up seeing this barn. In the meantime, we nearly ruined the lasagna.



Originally, we'd hoped to go for an afternoon walk along the south shore of the Rideau River, near Billings Bridge, but we decided to take a nap first. When a call from the dentist's office cut the nap fairly short, we decided we still had time for a walk. We popped one of those frozen lasagnas in the oven with a timer set to cook for an hour and then hold it at 170 degrees. We figured that would be enough time for a quick jaunt through the riverside park.

After gathering the stroller, carseat, diaper bag and a blanket, we stepped out of the front door. Only after it closed did we realize that we'd left our keys inside. We used to keep a spare key hidden, but we've changed the locks since then. The bathroom window happened to be open, so I entertained the idea that we could find someone with a 15-foot ladder and climb inside. After wandering around the condo group for a while and knocking on a few doors, we decided that wasn't going to work. I had all sorts of strange ideas about stacking recycling bins high enough to get in the window, but they were all dangerously bad. Eventually, we found ourselves in front of our house again, so I decided to check the hidden key, just in case. It turns out that I did have the sense to hide the new key, but I didn't have the sense to remember doing it.

With much of our time spent, we decided to just go down the street to the Central Experimental Farm and look at the different buildings. We didn't have enough time for a thorough examination, so we'll be going back soon, and we'll provide a complete report at that time. We'll also get some close-ups of Scott's ears.