We walked Fitz to his first day of kindergarten at Howard PS. He was excited and showed only a little bit of trepidation. Luckily, he’s in the same class and after-care with Emmett, which made the transition easy. Dennis stayed in town over the weekend and was able to join us.
We held Fitz’s birthday at the High Park splash pad. There’s so much space to run around and be wild.
ABOVE: Callum, Fitz, Avery
ABOVE & BELOW: Max, Fitz, Callum, Eli, Wesley, Avery
ABOVE: I refer to this photo as their Beastie Boys band shot.
ABOVE & BELOW: At the Air Show down by the lake.
During the second last week of August, we rented a cottage in Tobermory with our friends Michelle and Greg and their kids Eli and Hannah. We absolutely loved the place and found endless things to do.
ABOVE & BELOW: Carly and Fitz out in the “Police Kayak”
ABOVE & BELOW: We took a boat and walking tour of Flowerpot Island on the day of the solar eclipse.
ABOVE & BELOW: We got lucky by having some cloud cover during the eclipse — it made it easier to look up at within just a single pair of sunglasses. I took these photos hand-held.
ABOVE & BELOW: Near the end of the week, we took the ferry to Manitoulin Island and visited Bridal Veil Falls and the trail that runs beside the it’s river that drains into Lake Kagawong.
ABOVE & BELOW: The trail was quite charming; we saw lots of fairy doors installed in the nooks of trees and an art installation of metallic family of deer that the kids could crawl all over.
For the civic holiday weekend, we went back to Ottawa for a visit. We took Fitz and cousin Jack to Moody’s Bay to play in the Rideau River and nearly park.
Dennis decided to get a lot of fireworks. We set them off in a park down by the Rideau, just a block away from from the house of Carly’s Uncle Michael.
ABOVE: Luke, Carly & Fitz, Jack, little Jack, Donna, Bela, Noel, Leslie & Maggie, Michael.
