January 2017 – Dunster Blackett: The Life of Carly, Matt & Fitzgerald

Christmas 2016: Hike in the woods, presents galore, and the plane museum

We spent the holidays in Ottawa with Carly’s family. One of our first activities was to go on a wintery hike with Declan, the son of Carly’s cousin Clayton.

ABOVE: Waiting for a bird to land in his hand.

BELOW: Not taking guff from anyone.

ABOVE & BELOW: On Christmas Day, Fitz got to unwrap an unholy amount of presents that related to the movie PLANES. Above is Ripslinger.

By the time he reaches drinking age he should be a shark at shuffleboard.

ABOVE & BELOW: Fitz and cousin Jack went to the air and space museum, which Fitz seems to love. They burned off a lot of energy chasing each other around and pretending to have wings.

ABOVE: Carly’s Uncle Jack got caught up in the plane-pretending game.

December 2016: High Park Zoo fun and winter arrives early

We often wander over to the High Park Zoo when we run out of ideas of where to take Fitz. A quick jaunt over with Emmett and his mom Andria ended up as lunch at the Grenadier Cafe.

ABOVE & BELOW: Fitz got a toboggan as an early Christmas gift. And he loooooooves it. Look at that expression — seems to enjoy a thrill.

November 2016: Eli’s birthday, Ottawa leaves, and a haricut

Eli’s parent hosted his birthday at their house in the west end, which backs onto a ravine with a pathway that leads down to the Humber River. He invited Fitz, Callum, Abigail, and Leo (Abi couldn’t make it).

ABOVE: We took Fitz to get a haircut and they really cut it. We had no idea it would be this short. Carly was slightly traumatized by it but on the plus side we won’t have to get it cut for a long time.

We went for a short visit to Ottawa. We took Fitz down to Carly’s Uncle Michael’s place that has a big backyard.

October 2016: Scooters, Scarborough Bluffs, and Halloween

ABOVE & BELOW: We’re trying to encourage Fitzy to use a scooter. He’s slightly interested and competent, but he prefers to run.

ABOVE & BELOW: We took Fitz to the Scarborough Bluffs on a brisk Saturday morning. Carly had never seen the luffs before so it was nice to do a little local sight-seeing.

ABOVE: This guy was nuts to out on that edge.

ABOVE: Fitz and Emmett being thrown around at the High Park Castle Park.

ABOVE & BELOW: We went to a massive Halloween costume shop in the ‘burbs and he picked out Spiderman within a minute. He doesn’t even watch Spiderman shows so it’s kind of a mystery why he chose it.

ABOVE & BELOW: Callum as a dragon and Eli as a spider.

September 2016: Cam visits, Gabriel visits, and Fitzy visits Emmett

Our friends Andrea and Grant, who live in Vancouver, came to Toronto for a few days and brought their son Cameron (and newborn Sloane) over for a picnic in Sorauren Park. There’s a good series of pics from the spring of 2014 of Cam and Fitz in Vancouver.

ABOVE & BELOW: Andrea and Grant are friends with Katie and Sean, who we know separately because their son Noah goes to daycare with Fitzy. They came to the picnic too and you can see from the photos that Noah and Fitz like to horseplay. They greeted each other by running across the baseball field and jumping on one another.