Spring update

I'm afraid I'm not taking nearly as many photos of Nora as I did of Lily as a baby. Second children, eh? But I've scrounged up one or two. And added other topics as filler. You're welcome.

Nora is quite a happy baby and for the most part quite pleasant to lug around. Other than the fact that she's built like a tank and I now suffer from pulled back and shoulder muscles! A previous post showed her as a scrawny kid. Not any more! At 3 months, she's 15 pounds and looks quite the opposite of Lily at that age. Lily didn't hit 15 pounds till she was 8 months.

Petite Lily at 3 months (top) and Nora (bottom).

We're applying for Nora's passport. As expected, it's not easy to get a photo of a baby at this age. Since Costco won't do passport photos for babies this young, we tried CAA. The first attempt was rejected by the passport office because Nora's big ol' jowls created too much of a shadow. (Obviously that would make her a security risk on any flight!) So back we went for another try. I gotta say, these CAA folks are a dedicated bunch. We had a whole team of them trying to create that perfect photo of our quite content kid.

Lily is being a wonderful big sister and loves Nora to bits. She can't wait for Nora to be old enough to do stuff, but in the meantime there are other friends...

Being a weirdo all by herself passes the time quite well too.

I went and bought a trailer recently. Took a while to arrive, but finally the day came.

What's this now?

I ordered it from out of province, and it landed on the other side of town, so I took the car to grab my loot. The shocks didn't like it much, but I got it home. Oh, and stopped by the motor vehicle branch thing on the way home. Denied due to unacceptable paperwork of course.

I wanted a folding trailer, and I bought this thing from afar because it was galvanized and had a greater capacity than most. The deal I found happened to be in Saskatchewan.

Some effort later, tada! Nice and compact, to be tucked away nicely when not in use.

Unfortunately, it wasn't too useful as is, so I bought some lumber (the car roof had to suffice, since the trailer wasn't registered yet) and built it some more.

It took two more trips to the motor vehicle office to finally get it registered, but it's done(ish) now. This trailer will see lots of dirt and mulch and camping trips. I even bought a nice custom-sized tarp for it. The Corolla may just revolt, seeing her usefulness dwindle by the day. Speaking of...

We bought a new car. I was all gonna pick out my Suburban when we discovered Carrie could barely lift the baby seat into the back of the thing. This also disqualified pickup trucks, so here's our new Subaru Outback. New to us... only 9 years old!

So yeah, I don't know what the Corolla did to her overnight... pulled a Herbie or something, but a mere 22 hours after we bought the Outback, it pretty much stranded Carrie somewhere in town. Sigh... all our due diligence and then this? Anyhow, our dealership is super amazing and got it all sorted so we are happy again.

Carrie found a set of six old dining chairs on Kijiji for next to nothing, so her hobby these days is refinishing these babies. Unlike our current old fashioned set, these ones are very solid and will look very nice in our dining room one day.

Happy summer! Oh and don't forget... the days will be getting shorter very soon. Yay!