Cottage Weekend - July 14-22

Every year for the past 3 or 4 years, Russ and I have spent a full week at the Combermere cottage. We've always enjoyed being up there, just the 2 of us, for a whole week of NOTHING (ie. relaxing, reading magazines, chillin' at the dock, catching some rays, swimming in the lake and scrapbooking for me!). It was a little different this year with Jessica - a lot of fun, but also exhausting! Mostly because she decided to wake up at 5:30 every single morning! Not to mention that two teeth came through that week as well, which meant 2 extra sleepless nights. Believe it or not, but we were actually looking forward to coming home to sleep in our own beds, and not right next to Jessica's room (like at the cottage, where we could hear every little noise she made!!) Nevertheless, we had lots of fun with her.

Jessica went wading and swimming in the lake:


We also went to Hinterland Beach....



...where she met a little boy named "Zen":


We didn't have enough room in the car to bring her exersaucer, so Jess spent a lot of time in her Jolly Jumper (which she didn't seem to mind one bit!!)


We also visited Jess' 2nd cousin Ava, who is 9 weeks older than Jessica. Ava sat happily playing with a toy while Jess crawled around the room as soon as we put her down. That's our little girl!


Our friends Sab & Dan and Mike & Ofie joined us for the 2nd weekend, which was a lot of fun. They've been coming up to the cottage for a few years now. They really seemed to enjoy playing with Jess, which gave us some free time (we finally got to take the pedal boat out!). But with Jessica's 5:30 am wake-up calls, we left the cottage to go for a walk after nursing her to give our guests a little extra sleep - it was a chilly at that time, but absolutely gorgeous out!!


All in all, it was a great week. Jessica slept relatively well and it was so much fun to play with her. Russ really enjoyed spending the entire week with Jess! She learned some new "tricks" while we were there - whenever we would ask "Jessica, where is the "duck/flag/boat?" she would look around and point at it (there is a stuffed duck in the cottage and a flag and boat by the dock in the lake) It was really cute!

We are definitely looking forward to spending another week at the cottage with Jessica next year...hopefully she'll be sleeping in later then! =)