No Chocolate for Breakfast: Long weekend party baby

Evelyn received her very first birthday party invitation, for her cousin Ruben's fourth birthday, when we got home from the hospital. The party took place Sunday afternoon and it was an excuse to dress Evie up in one of her many dresses.

Heading out to Gena's

What Evie did for most of the birthday party

Sunday was also our first wedding anniversary and the first time we left Evie alone. She was in (a lot) of good hands: gramma Debby, aunt Casey, big sister and cousin Grace. We were gone for about 2.5 hours for a delicious dinner at Beckta Dining & Wine and the baby was apparently well behaved.

First date night since baby (my dresses fit again!)


Evelyn with Grandma

Grace meeting her baby cousin

Cuddles from Aunt Casey

Liana having fun with Grace

Yesterday was Canada Day. My favourite place to celebrate Canada Day is Petrie Island. Considered going for a little while this year, for the magic show and Little Ray's Reptiles, but driving, parking and walking would be about a half hour each way and I feel like Evie would be done after one to two hours, so decided it wasn't worth it. Liana was downtown for a bbq at a friend's for the afternoon, and the rest of us vegged around the house. Darcy and I figured out how to play Eclipse (our mutual anniversary gift: paper theme!), I've been figuring out the fancy camera Casey loaned me, Caleb watched some Power Rangers, went for a swim, and created a game, and Evelyn slept for most of the day. I also started on some postpartum exercises, with Caleb as my coach counting reps and Dex trying to lick my face. And we went for a brisk hour long nighttime walk in hopes of seeing the Petrie Island fireworks from the river near our place but no luck.