I’ve been super lucky to have spent the last 2 weekends hanging out with old friends and their gorgeous (and well behaved!) children. No favourites here, they’re all lovely and somewhat jealous making.

Here’s Molly Jane, the grand finale to Ryan and Corrie‘s family.  She’s got navy blue eyes, 2 teeth and no worries in the world. Her cheeks could win awards for extreme chubbiness.

Oh my, what a stunner.  All their children are beauties, all carbon copies of each other.

This most recent weekend I headed up to Kincardine to see Ashley and Scott and their kids and their vast and varied  animal collection. Bob. Well. Bob’s too hilarious for words. He’s a busy boy who’s in love with the world and wants to know everything about everything. These are his glorious green feet.

We also stuck stickers all over them, because green feet need further fancying.

Proud of his efforts.

Could you die?

Then there’s the infamous Meeps.  I didn’t get any really great pictures of her because she always seemed to be so close when I had my camera out. My…phone, sorry. She’s a snuggly little noodle that likes to show off her muscles. Oh, sigh.

It was a girl’s night in. Ashley and I drank 2 tetra packs of wine and Meeps had boob. Delicious, wine-filled boob.

And the animals. Again, constant movement, no really usable pictures, but this one of GooGooEyes (and Ashley, correct me if I’m wrong on that name) made me die.

Playing the cello.

Yes, I already posted this on facebook, so what? The date on the back is May 1974, “Just before Caitlin’s second birthday”, in my mom’s handwriting. I think we had our pictures done regularly at Sears (or…wherever) because we had relatives in England that we didn’t get to see regularly. My sister has a picture of the entire family that is SO brilliant, I wish she’d send me a copy-HINT HINT!

A dollhouse potty on her nose. Hilarity ensued. Nothing like a baby with a good sense of humour!

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Seems every time I meet a baby I think that THIS is the best baby ever. And then I meet a newer one and I think it all over again-sort of like Artie Lange who always says the same thing about the Miss Howard TV. Anyway, I really did meet the best baby ever this week, Miss Habree Larratt, Shannon’s niece. She’s 13 months old and just amazing, totally smart, independent, funny as hell and cute as a button. Her and I got along like peas and corn.

She’s dressed up in her mermaid costume. If ever there was a baby I’d happily steal (KIDDING!) this would be it. Check out Ashleigh’s amazing videos of her (and her brothers and more)  here.

As you may remember, a couple weeks ago we had our first ever stitch and bitch. There were only three people total (which was good, more people would mean taking shorter turns bitching) and I managed to do a complete project start to (almost) finish. All I did when I got home was stuff it and sew it closed. It’s a rabbit chew rag. Then I had to figure out what nearly teething person would appreciate it.

Enter Maggie Meeps.  I sent it to her family farm and she’s just popped her first tooth so it’s going to good use! And just look how cute she is!

And she looks swell in that prim Amish dress, very sweet!

She’s so awesome, happy and funny. She loves to pat the cat and cackles like a loon when she does it. She knows where noses are and where her bellybutton is. She asks what stuff is all day.

And those are blueberries on her top.