Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Babymooning in Havana


Alan and I spent an amazing week in Cuba attending a friend's wedding. It was such a treat to travel together, spend time with many great friends, experience the incredible sites and culture of Old Havana and bask in the sweet sunshine. We squeezed in more dates in one week than we have in the past 5 years, and after 6 days and nights filled with Cuban music, I think this baby will come out ready to salsa!
Mariachi band playing at the wedding reception

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Mother's Day

Getting some belly love at the beach while sporting my homemade Mother's Day necklace.
My whole life I've always wondered if I'd have kids, and how many, and if they'd be boys or girls. Now I feel that I have the answer to one the great mysteries of my life. I will be the mother of two sons and it feels wonderful. I can't wait for my little family to be complete so I can wrap my arms around both of them and give them all the love in the world. Caleb is full of questions about his new little brother and it turns out he is listening to my answers very closely. This afternoon I commented on how he went down the slide head first he said, 'Yeah, and that's the way the baby will come out of you!'.

This has been a very special, and busy, Mother's Day. It started on Friday with a wonderful lunch at Cale's daycare, complete with a personalized bag full of crafts, all served up by the kids. Cale said they weren't able to have circle time all week because they were so busy working on the crafts. Each mom received candles, cards, flowers and a very colourful necklace.

Yesterday Cale learned a new word - puttering. He played around Alan and I all day as we packed boxes, put them in our car and unpacked them in our storage unit which is conveniently located just around the corner. It turns out you can quite effectively be a bad pirate who is holding a sword in one hand while packing a box with the other hand! Maybe I should have also taught him the word multitasking. Today we took the afternoon off for some good old fashioned family fun. A beach walk, bike ride, take out fish and chips, and next up will be a bath and nap for mama. Perfect.

Bonfire and s'mores in the rain last weekend!
Thanks to Wendy from my work for the photos!