Visit from Timmins family + Outing with all of my children

Ryan, Tina, Travis and Grace came to visit for a few days to meet their new niece/cousin. The weather was nice so we got to make use of the pool. Liana was excited to have Grace sleep over in her room but alas Grace passed out in the basement while watching the original Power Rangers series. Evelyn was pretty good and had some good cuddles and naps on her aunt and uncle. In the evening I had a nice long walk with Tina and afterwards all of us adults watched Super 8.

Meeting aunt Tina

Bright-eyed baby

Caleb loving having someone's full attention to talk Pokemon

Comfy on uncle Ryan

Caleb teaching Grace to play Nickelodeon Fit

Travis played every instrument we own (and tuned most of them!)

Last night we had a visit from France and Audrey who also dropped off a bag of hand-me-downs for Evelyn. Evelyn turned two weeks yesterday but is already wearing size 3 months so yay for extra clothes. Liana was very helpful yesterday: she made dinner and volunteered to hold the baby while I did laundry and had a bath.

My little chef

Baby holding while rewatching the XxxHolic series

Several friends of ours are expecting, and yesterday the first of these babies was born since Evelyn. Evelyn's soon-to-be friend Isaac was delivered by his daddy on the way to the hospital on the passenger's seat of their car! The ambulance arrived five minutes later. Weighing 9.14lbs this little guy is bigger than our big baby. Looking forward to getting the babies together and hearing the details of the exciting birth.

Caleb's been acting clingy and starved for attention since we brought the baby home so I try to have a little something for him to do every day. He started guitar lessons this week and starts swim lessons next week. Unfortunately, most of his little friends are in summer camps during weekdays. I wanted to take advantage of Lucien having the week off so we made plans to meet Lucien and Becka and the Canterbury outdoor pool. I tried hard to be on time but failed. Evelyn woke up more often than usual overnight, Liana requested vegan pancakes for breakfast, I had to figure out how to fold and unfold the stroller and had to feed to baby before heading out. We were a bit late. When leaving the park Evelyn overfilled her diaper so I got to change her in the car, the car didn't start the first two times I tried to start it (of course, both Liana and I forgot our cell phones at home), and I went on autopilot home instead of heading west to drop the older kids at their dad's. So all in all we were out three hours to spend about 45 minutes at a park. Going to have to work on packing up in advance and paying more attention to where I'm going...

It was worth it, though! Happy kids.

Buddies. Bonus is when you're friends with your kids'
friends' moms - makes busy parks much more tolerable.

Evelyn's first time at the park. She has no clue she was ever there.