Dear Bastien, or “Big Boy” as it seems you prefer to be called these days. Today you are three! So long twos, this is the day we’ve been waiting for! You’ve come such a long way in the past twelve months. Learning to speak in sentences surfacing as perhaps your largest accomplishment. Aunt Courtney relayed [...]

I love this set of photos so much, I actually find it unnecessary to say another thing about it.

This is pretty much how things go at a birthday party where the three-and-unders almost outnumber the over-thirties. Dizzy yet?

Well, it’s official. The dog days of summer are here. And I am feeling Lazy. Thankfully, we had another big family birthday blowout last weekend that should tide me over with post topics for the remainder of the week. One of the birthday boys just so happened to be a certain one I gave birth [...]

You know you are living with an almost-three-year-old when those are the only words you hear, day in and day out. Truthfully, they are music to my ears. Suddenly I have this child who picks out his own clothes, dresses himself, puts on his shoes, buckles his seatbelt, goes to the bathroom, and more, without [...]

So during this weekend’s crazy shenanigans, we eventually landed IN the zoo. But what fun! I cannot recommend the African Lion Safari of Cambridge Ontario enough. You know about our other recent safari adventures, I’m sure. But this one wins, hands down. Just look at all those smiles. Let’s see, there was a train ride, [...]