While the majority of updates on Arianna are going on the blog especially designated for her, it is hard to update in general what is happening with us as a family without focusing on things related to her. This weekend for example we decided we had to address the fact that our little "thrill junkie" loves to climb up the stairs. This of course required one of us to follow very closely behind to catch her if she missed a step or took a tumble.
The problem of course is that Arianna doesn't realize she needs Daddy or Mommy to go up with her and wants to climb them all the time. We put the laundry hamper in front of the stairs as a temporary measure but she quickly discovered that she could climb over it or pull it out of the way so we couldn't look away for even a moment when she is on the floor downstairs. When I was in Miami two weeks ago I picked up a gate and on Sunday we had some time to put it up. We borrowed a drill from a friend and after a few starts and stops got her new gate up.
We are going to add a few more gates around the house in the next few weeks as we get a better feel for what areas we dont want her getting into so easily staring with the top of the stairs so she can start crawling around the upstairs.
We are now in the fourth week of our summer term. I have been reappointed for another one year term as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Cayman Islands National Insurance Company and this past Friday began service on a government committee examining healthcare costs to the government in the Cayman Islands and ways of reducing them. We are now entering the real hurricane season which everyone says starts on July 15. The Cape Verde season doesnt begin until August 15 but we are now into that mode of checking the NHC site every morning and having plans in place to move quickly should it look like we will get a storm.
