Perambulation

...of a sort. Samuel is starting to crawl, at last! Here is a picture of him "practising" at my mom's house, a couple of weeks ago. He now crawls using one knee and one foot. It's quite funny. Perhaps he will eventually start using two knees, perhaps not. He still prefers to walk.

I'm thinking about starting to plan to get ready to go to Hawaii next weekend. That's how things are these days. I think "oh, yeah, gotta decide what to pack..." and eventually I make a list (sometimes) of stuff to pack. That morphs into "better gather things to pack" and then "I think it's time to pack" and finally "aaagh! I have to pack NOW!" which is followed by frantic scurrying around throwing things in the general direction of suitcases, usually about 3 days before I leave. The final two days are spent in more scurrying from drug store to department store to wherever else, filling in the gaps. And then the night before a shrug of the shoulders and a decision to buy what I've forgotten. Luckily I rarely have vacationed in a place that has no amenities whatever.

This will be my first vacation with Samuel. We're flying to LA, overnight there, and then off to Hawaii the next morning. The nice thing about that is I'll go through US Customs here in Calgary. At least if I get refused entry I can just take a cab back home, not that I'm expecting to be on their nasty people list. Mind you, we are talking about the Government after all. As far as I can tell there is not often a lot of logic behind their decisions.