Big News! Conor started walking on Sunday! We just put a favourite book on a chair and to get it, he walked several feet from the couch that he was cruising along .

I may not have time to take part in Illustration Friday this week as we’ll be busy with Conor’s baptism. I have to piece together another outfit for him: Doug quipped that our pearly knitted number with ribbons (inherited from an uncertain source) would be far better suited for the Ice Capades. It wouldn’t be so comical if it weren’t such an apt description. It is pretty cute, though…. Will he resent me later if I take a picture of him in it?

We’ve waited till Conor was a little older because I very much wanted to take him back to the old family church that generations of his family had built and maintained. I feel closer to my grandparents there. The original building had been moved from Fair Island, a small island in Bonavista Bay, across a sheet of ice during the Great Newfoundland Resettlement.