Chloe (visiting from Ottawa), Luna and Ambrose

A shy Chloe with mom Maggie, an observant Luna and an excited Ambrose

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Blue Lake, Ontario - August Long weekend

We had a great time August Long camping at Blue Lake with friends Collin, Natasha and Luna (who is two months younger than Ambrose).

We traveled together in an old truck with a slide on camper pulling a small transport trailer. It was Ambrose's first time camping and sleeping in a tent.






Luna showed Ambrose how fun it is to play in the dirt and Ambrose showed Luna how to be a bit assertive while playing (read: how to shove babies out of the way when they are playing with toys you want or who are too close to mom).



The two made up a dynamic duo who charmed the fellow campers. They discovered that is a lot of fun to take chairs for a walk!

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384 Wardlaw now listed as one of Winnipeg's famous homes

Nerd alert....

I was successful in my request to have 384 Wardlaw added to the Manitoba Historical Society's list of famous Winnipeg homes.

In an earlier post, I wrote about our discoveries after we began to trace the genealogy of our home, specifically that two famous men - Hugh Northcote Baird and Duncan D Young - once lived here. This fact has now been added to their respective MHS bios.

Clearwater lake - visit with nana poppa

Last weekend (Fri-Tues) we rented a SUV and took a road trip up north. Despite the wall of fishflies on Easterville road (and running out of windshield wiper fluid - thank goodness for baby wipes) we arrived late late Friday evening at the lake. We could not have picked a better weekend. We enjoyed the sweltering heat, lakeside.

Ambrose loved the water (although he had a preference for being beside or on top of the water, not in it).
We enjoyed visits from the usual suspects and had some great QT with the grandparents.

Highlights included a boat ride on the ss minnow with poppa and beach time with nana.
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At Clearwater Lake, main beach

A look back: newborn Ambrose photo shoot

I looked back at our posts and I realized I did not create a picture gallery of Ambrose's newborn pictures. I recall being told at the time by other moms (experienced and new) that the newborn phase does not last long. Indeed, time is fleeting. Click here for picture gallery.

 

15 month professional photo shoot

Amber Bond (of Amber Bond Photography) did another amazing job capturing Ambrose's many expressions (you might recall that she had photographed Ambrose when he was a newborn).





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Note to the nanas:  a set of pictures will be coming your way shortly.