Baby diary: 17 months 4 weeks

Alan with his grandparents since last night, so I can deal with the AC repair that got pushed to Monday. (As I write, even chance it gets pushed to Tuesday.) We had great weather over the weekend, though, so spent a lot of time outside. With the COVID-19 reopening, the playground equipment in Verdun is now accessible, and since we were very early in the park with not a lot of others around, I gave into temptation and allowed Alan to play on the swings and the toddler slide and even the splash pad. He adored all the new games. But now there is no social distancing happening at all among the parents and young children, at least beyond what you would expect pre-COVID from strangers in public spaces. People wear masks and take care when entering stores, but I suppose they think, what's the point if the kids are back at daycare?

We also spent some quality time at Verdun Beach on Sunday morning. Again, Saturday was quite hot and the beach was packed -- I dislike packed public beaches at the best of times -- but Sunday was rather cooler/windier and there was hardly anyone at 10am. Alan dug about happily in the sand, wearing rubber boots and long sleeves and sun hat, and took wistful note of the other kids in swimsuits who were allowed to splash in the water. He is too cautious to immediately imitate even if he clearly wanted to; which is good because he will probably NEVER be allowed to go into the water at Verdun Beach, which is just the good old Saint Lawrence River and known to contain unacceptable E.coli overflow after a heavy rain.

I'll do another update on Friday, when Alan'll be 18 months old. :)