Stealing a bit of credit for some good shots (these are all Steve's great shots), but I just wanted to post a couple of pictures of Thomas from today at "Touch a truck". Grandpa Steve, Amanda and I all joined Thomas and watched him skip, dance and march around between garbage trucks, fire trucks, police cars, buses and diggers!!!! Lots of fun!

Here is the second batch of photos from the past little while. For the Thomas admirers out there (and we know there are lots!) this should provide some smiles.

These are the pics from various Christmas festivities with various grannies, grandmamas, grandmas, and grandpas and granddads.

The first batch of photos that have been a long time in coming. Some pictures from a nice fall of 2008 and of Thomas' second birthday. This one was far more successful than his first bday, which coincided with a big snowstorm last year. Thanks to all for a nice time, including the smiling web-presence of granny from Oakville.

It has been a while since we added some photos for our devoted Tom-Tom fans out there. So here are a couple of shots of his "photo smile", an afternoon with aunt Brydie and grandma and riding around in his car.

What a great day! Despite both of us being quite out of shape and, as it turned out, not very well prepared (not typical MannAiz attention to detail and planning), we had a great time running the Mitsubishi City Chase Ottawa...sponsored by Blackberry (our cheque better be in the mail!) this past weekend.

This was our first kick at this event and we are already thinking about next year and getting a chance to do things differently.

Check points were scattered across the city and we ended up walking and jogging about 17 km over the course of the day. It took us 4 hours, 40 minutes and we finished 68th out of about 360 teams...not too shabby. We got to hit baseballs at JetForm park, fence a woman from our Olympic team, sing with strangers in a car, take pictures of stranger's tattoos, build an inukshuk, golf with ridiculously oversized golf clubs and walk on stilts on slippery grass.

We can hardly walk two days later but is was great fun. If you get the chance, we highly recommend it!

What a wonderful week and a wonderful wedding. It was great to see how happy Jonathan and Mackenzie looked and it didn't hurt that the sun was shining, the location was spectacular, the day had been planned so well and everyone was in such good spirits.

Congrats again to the happy couple and here's to meeting for their 10th anniversary back in Antigua.

The heat of summer brings many wonderful things and one of best has to be watching Thomas play in his pool and run around the back yard..."Finally, I can be set free after being stuck in the house all winter!" (Thomas really is quite well spoken for a year and a half). This hot, hot Saturday we picked up a great Mr. Potato head garage sale find and, as you can see, Thomas loved it.

Bring on that hot weather.

It has been great to be off work and spending all the time I can with Thomas. I have been trying my best to stop and eat the roses as much as possible, just spending time playing with him and watching him explore the world around him. 3 months goes by in a blink. It has been a month and a half already so I need to make sure to enjoy it.

Amanda and Thomas and I went to Stoney Swamp in the west of Ottawa last week on a glorious sunny day. Thomas' is turning it to quite the outdoorsman, so he was loving the ducks, Canada geese, the chipmunks and red squirrels and even marten swimming around. Today I went again to try to recreate the experience but it just didn't live up to last weeks trip, so I went to Bayshore and let Thomas play in their great play areas...Wadda ya gonna do! Anyway here are a few pics from our Stoney Swamp visit last week.

There has been not nearly enough Tom-Tom time with his granny A, so it was great to have a good visit with Amanda's mum and wonderful to see Thomas smiling, cuddling and enjoy the visit as much as I am sure Amanda's mum did. Here are but a few of the pics from the visit, with a trip to Dow's lake to see the tulips and plenty of time to relax in our back yard. Here is to many more granny visits!

That little man of ours just keeps on truckin'. He has learned to climb the stairs and as soon as he gets the chance he is off to the races...up the stairs. A couple of days ago was also and interesting as he discovered our kitchen stool makes for a fantastic walker...and off he went.

That little guy, so cute!