Preparing for +2

By Abbas -

First off, Happy New Year to everyone out there. We hope that you all had a restful holiday season, and managed to spend some well-deserved time with your friends and families. May the new year bring each of you much joy, health, peace and happiness.

Speaking of peace, I keep hearing from friends that have 2 or more kids about how much crazier our life is about to get, but I'm not sure I'm buying it. I'll probably be eating my words in a month, and this sense of preparedness I have is likely the calm before a storm. In either case, Kaniz and I are both pretty excited and anxious to have +2 make her world debut!

As you'd expect, the preparations are well under way for the arrival of +2. As you can imagine, Kaniz has been busy making lists of things we need to do before the baby gets here, which is great, because it helps her feel more in control and I get a kick out of crossing off 'to-do' items from the list (the trick is to put even minor things on the to-do list so you can cross them off easily). Jokes aside, the list-making has really kept us on track and I think we're feeling well prepared for +2. Obviously, 'catch up on blog' has been on my list for some time!

With that in mind, here are some pictures from November - the theme for the month was definitely birthday parties.. enjoy!

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