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First aeroplane flight

A day trip to Vancouver to visit the Australian Consulate and get the Moosling an Australian passport to go with his Canadian one.

 

 

 

 

(Even visited the Apple store to play with an iPad, and the travelling part all went smoothly except for the part at the end of the day where I tried to sneak in a nappy change just before boarding the flight home, and of course because I was rushing it all went terribly wrong, and there was pee everywhere and a screaming baby and then I was paged to board early. Mission to use cloth nappies while travelling was successful though…)

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Through the snow to Chester Lake

A neat little hike that I’ve done as a ski tour in winter. Not quite enough snow for skiing at the moment, but not so much that hiking was impossible. There was some snow being flicked up into boots though (gaiters would have been a good idea) and thankfully a few other people had been out there before us to stamp the trail down.

 

Starting out along the trail to Chester Lake – not too much snow yet

 

It was also the first test of the fancy new Ergo backpack – an upgrade for Finn from the sling, as the weight on one shoulder was getting a bit too much for longer hikes. He’s not quite big enough to sit in it normally yet, so it’s being padded with blankets and a mini-pillow, in lieu of buying the proper infant insert (which he’d probably only need for a few weeks anyway).

 

In the meadows before the lake, with views back to Burstall Pass

 

 

Chester Lake

 

 

Megan and the Moosling, hanging out at Chester Lake

 

Distance: 10km return
Elevation gain: 310m (1900m – 2210m)

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My cloth nappy*/diaper scheme

Disclaimer: Don’t read any further if you’re not interested in cloth nappies/diapers.
*Second disclaimer: I’m going to call them nappies, not diapers, because I’m not from the US

This is just a summary of my cloth nappy set-up. I’ve only been doing it for a couple of months (although now updated from the ‘have been doing this for 19 months now’ perspective), so things will probably change, but in the meantime, this is the sort of thing I found really handy to read before I started the cloth nappy process, as a lot of information out there was really short on detail and photos (although there’s heaps of fantastic information at Karen’s Diaper Pages (she’s also much better at doing the pre-fold folds than I am, I’m still getting the hang of it), and a bunch of photos of prefolds on babies at Green Mountain Diapers prefold page . There’s also a good summary of all the different types of nappies available these days here. So here we go…

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Grassi Lakes

 

The upper lake

 

 

Moosefather and Moosling enjoying the sun

 

 

Logs hang out gathering moss

 

 

On the way back down again (Ha Ling Peak in the background) – the Chariot handles the rocky track pretty well, although we take it slow on the bumps

 

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A Chariot for the Moosling

An adventuring Moosling needs a sturdy form of transport (when he’s not hanging out snug in a sling). And so we have this:

 

Chariot by the Bow River, set up in jogging mode

 

We’ve got the attachment to turn it into a bike trailer, and we just found the kit to turn it into a snow trailer too. So now we just have to wait for him to grow a bit, and for the snow to arrive.

(Oh, and it collapses into this snazzy travel bag)