Updated the slideshow to add some more photos.

Hope you enjoy.

After a surprisingly short labour, Amanda and I welcomed Simon James Mann into the world at 6:37 am on Tuesday. Simon is a healthy, happy, 7lb, 15oz baby boy.

We stayed one night and caught sleep when and where we could. We are all back home now for our first night under the new regime, We all hope the little dictator lets us sleep a bit.

So welcome to the Mannaiz clan Simon!

Like always...very...slow...to upload pictures. Here is a batch from a walk in a nature trail on the St. Lawrence, a trip to Parc Omega to feed carrots to pushy deer, some Canada pics from the Aviation museum, and a few others. Hope you enjoy.

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.