Back in Kenya

The rest of the trip was great! In addition to the rock concert, Tattoo, and cottage party, we also took Toby to the Jazz Fest, to the Changing of the Guard special event at Citadel Hill, and out for more parties & showers. Of note was my grandfather Jack's 92nd Birthday Party at the Inn on the Lake... a wonderful tradition of gathering the whole family he instilled almost 20 years ago. My cousin Charlotte had a family shower for us, and we received lots of generous gifts both there and throughout our visit. We had another great Farewell to Nova Scotia party, and jetted off to Toronto for a few days to stay with sonJa - thanks to Joan, Shannon, and of course sonJa, Tara & JC for the fun, gifties, and sushi!

The trip back was fairly uneventful... After narrowly avoiding paying for extra baggage, we had our choice of seats on the Air Canada flight. Of course we enjoyed our reunion with Anthony, Kevin, and Leah, but I'm starting to miss Canada more - it was a bit difficult adjusting back to Kenya this time. I am going to start getting my ducks in a row to move us to Canada - but calm down, it will take a couple of years at least - for Anthony to finish his diploma at university, and most important, for us to save enough $$$ both to move and to have a down payment on a house!

Toby weighed in at 6.1kg (13-1/2 pounds) at the beginning of August, and had his second round of immunizations - this time I was prepared, I gave him the baby tylenol right away. He was fine till he woke up from a nap a few hours later crying to make my heart break :( I just gave him another dose and rocked him back to sleep. He was feeling fine the next day when we went to the kids' school for closing day - they are off for the month of August. Then I had to figure out what to do with the kids every day for a month! I have joined a gym here that has an outdoor track and playground - have been bringing them to walk with Toby while I work out, and Kevin just started extra tuition on Monday. My trainer said 45 minutes of cardio 4 times a week to lose the babyfat!! Yikes.
But so far so good, have been going on schedule (even while my househelp was off for a week!) and can already feel a difference. Am trying to do some form of exercise every single day - even if it's walking Toby up to Nakumatt (it does include a steep hill ;)

Sorry I haven't posted an update in soooo long, but I had nasty viruses on my poor little laptop, and it took me ages to get rid of it (I was very stubborn and tried to do everything possible to avoid reformatting, but eventually I just did it and am very happy with the result... should have just done it to begin with!)

ttyl!