farmhouse

Adlai liked opening and closing the creaky doors and making his way up the steep staircase.

An aerial view of the farm before the weeping willow had to be cut down.

Heritage

Here are Patrick's Great-Great Grandparents

And here is information about his clans.

Loved ones

All the traveling is taking its toll - the kids are happy despite the total lack of napping and Adlai is subsisting on Cheerios. Here we are with Grandpa. Adlai has just pronounced "George" deliberately and proudly and I think his great granddad was tickled.

Patrick's great grandparents.

We miss you Grandma. Here is a photo from their 60th wedding anniversary when we were last out at the farm.

Patrick's great grandparents.

country lane

Patrick and Kaya played on the farm while Adlai and I went for a walk down the country road at dusk. The farm holds so many beautiful memories and fall is lovely on the Georgian bay.

The bridge

Kemble

These are the first photos with our new camera. Our old canon died on our trip and we needed to get photos of the greatgrandparents with their greatgrandkids.

We made it to Kemble and the Crampton farmhouse and Kaya and Adlai had a good time chasing frogs, picking apples from a real apple tree, and blowing dandelion fluff in the breeze - foundational experiences for all toddlers.

On our way

The kids were great sports about being woken at 5:45 and packed into the car to go to the airport. They enjoyed watching the planes take off and land and the "trains" bring baggage back and forth.

Here is our camera deciding to bite the big one.