Cookies for Captains

Morgen's weekend: More excitement than she could nap through. This weekend, Morgen's favourite phrase "More cookies, Grandma!" was transformed into "Make cookies Grandma!"She played with her oldest friend, laughed with her Grandparents, and went to a party on a farm where there was a homemade playground including trains, a tire climbing structure, and this boat. She saw apple trees up close for the first time, and scored some new toys at the local outlet mall and farmer's market. It was a good weekend to be a toddler.

Lillian's weekend: Milk from anyone and anything. A family escape to Wellesley on Thursday meant that I would have to leave the baby with her Daddy in order to attend a wedding on Friday night in Toronto. Did she notice? Not at all. Several expressed bottles later, I was able to drive away relatively happy and without the baby attached to me. Made it to the weddingthree minutes late, thanks to traffic, but at least I made it. And Lillian will now try to latch onto almost anything that passes within reach of her little lips...sure, it's a normal stage, but I think it was a bit encouraged by her Friday night experience.

Happy Father's Day

We've been celebrating father's day by rolling down hills, hanging out in the shade, and laughing at clouds. To all the fathers and grandfathers out there - we love you!

Lessons Learned

About Lillian

Choose to wear any colour but purple. If you wear purple, and you feed her while wearing purple, she'll projectile vomit all over it, and then you'll have to change everything, including your underwear.

Number of times it took me to learn this lesson?

4 events + 1 test = 5

About Morgen

Bedtime is not a good time to try parenting solo. Toddler routines do not mesh well with newborn spontaneity.

Number of times it took me to learn this lesson?

1 (45-minute screaming session is pretty hard to miss).

Two Months

Lillian is two months old today! She smiles, coos, wiggles, and wears clothes that Morgen couldn't wear until she was almost a year old. She's pretty amazing.

An update following Lillian's two month well baby appointment:

Here are Lillian's fighting stats

Height: 62cm (95 percentile)

Head: 41 cm (95 percentile)

Weight: 6.2 kg (97 percentile)

It appears that we have an over achiever. If this keeps up, Morgen had better be really nice to her little sister or she'll have her butt kicked.

For Mr. Fun

At this moment, Gavin is off with Morgen, on a walk to the library. The library isn't open today, but we have books to return, the rain seems to have stopped, and we thought it would be good for Morgen to get out while she can. So, even though he'd probably prefer to be reading some op-ed piece online, Gavin has donned his alter ego, and Morgen is out with her Daddy - aka Mr. Fun.

Mr. Fun spends a lot of time and energy with his children, and with their friends, and on household chores, or maintaining the strollers, bikes, car, light fixtures. It goes on - he left the relatively comfortable walls of academia to work a full time job to support his children, and their strollers, bikes, car, etc. He gets precious little time to himself these days, and what time he does have he tries to spend on his dissertation.

When we were dating, my parents called him Gavin Maggot-Bane, or Good Boy Gavin (long stories - you'll have to ask me sometime if you are curious) - but those names faded with the onset of parental responsibility. Mr. Fun - this post is for you, and for all the sanity you bring me at the expense of your own.