June 2: 4 Years

The thing about parenting is that it's just all cliches.

Today's example - how different Avery and Seth (and soon Biddle) are.

Avery at 4: has a total sense of his own style (backwards shorts, spiderman boots, a bowtie and t-shirt are a daily outfit); loves cooking, used to love Barney, is always trying to keep up with the big kids on our street, will do just about anything for a popsicle or chocolate egg, loves cooking, pretending to be Harry Potter, is into painting. 

I worry about him being a bit too classic middle child - caught between wanting to keep up with older brother and wanting the attention of the baby.

But Avery is a genuine original.  Unconcerned about what other people, teachers and kids think, he does is thing.

Avery is four!

May 30th: Birthdays

May is a month of birthdays for us.  And of course I never take pictures of anything.  Seth kicked it off with cake pops for breakfast, steak for dinner and 12 friends at a trampoline place.  Lots of Lego was the theme of the day.

Then me. I was sick and writing my book - but we still got a night out together - a nap, a movie and a quiet house was how I rocked in my 37th year.

Then it was Avery - who seemed neutral on the birthday front.  But we had a Kung Fu cake (which actually looked cool but I didn't take a picture) and had lurid and vaguely frightening bright icing. There were balloons and the nice thing about our street is that's its an instant party.

In between that, lots of other kids parties as well - Fort York, making pizza and so on.

Pizza party

Seth's dream realized: Jabbas Palace. Later destroyed. R crushed as hours of work -gone.

Cake on street

May 27:

Just over 9 months.

Me & Mr. Biddles

Almost 8 months. 

Random life

Going for Dosas.

Hanging. 

Growing. 

Monday February 11th:

Mondays mornings always feel like a struggle and a slow start.  So much didn't get done over the weekend.  So much to do during the week.

So before anything even starts, a bit of Biddles to kick it off:

Friday February 8th:

Captured - life according to Seth at this time: