I guess I’m starting off like this because I’m apologizing to myself – to my goal of posting a bit more frequently.

I guess I haven’t been able to just sit down to write because I knew exactly what it was that I needed to write and I didn’t want to do it.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that this particular post is more for my self than for anyone who’ll be reading this.

Welcome to the world! Your Mommy and I are so happy that you are finally here! You have no idea how many people have been looking forward to this day and all the people who will want to see pictures of you and squeeze your little cheekies and pinch your cute little bum. You are here in a huge, exciting, and beautiful world and surrounded by a big fat loving family who all love you.

Okay okay, so here is the big announcement:

If you are familiar with Canadian winter, you will know that a stormy winter night can be preferable to a not stormy winter night. A calm and clear winter evening in Canada can be a ridiculously beautiful thing – thousands of bright stars, mesmerizing northern lights, and silence so absolute it takes your breath away. But what really takes your breath away is how cold those kinds of nights are.

This is how one of those testing sessions went.

The guys and I were too cool for that. We asked Mr. Hogan if we could do our own thing as long as we stayed in the park. He grunted something about “free country” and “failure at life” but we took that as an answer in the affirmative.