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If you need me, you can find me wanderlusting through the charming streets of Québec City ❤️ We made it to the Capitale-Nationale and our babymoon as officially begun! 🏰 Can’t wait to continue exploring this quaint city today - check out my stories for some highlights from yesterday!
Happy bump day and hello third trimester!🤰🏻At 29 weeks, baby girl is now the size of a butternut squash! 👶🏻 Between the high temps and unrelenting rainfall, it's been an exhausting week. My higher levels of energy from the second trimester seem to be depleting. 😴 I have been trying to listen to my body more and actually SLOW DOWN (something that is very hard for this busy mama to do!) While putting Adina down for her nap last week, I accidentally passed out in her room and woke up 2 hours later - I guess I really needed the sleep! 💤 . . . Looking forward to getting some more rest this weekend, while Adina stays with her grandparents. ❤️ Michael and I are going to Montréal and Quebec City for a few days and it's the first child-free trip we've taken since we went to Arizona last October. Can't wait for some quality time with the hubby, exploring a new city and trying new foods. 🍟 (those fries are supposed to be poutine!) Please send all your MTL recs my way! Lmk any must-see places and must-eat restaurants in the comments below!
Twinning Tuesday! Adina and her BFF Mila often get mistaken for twins or sisters. 👯‍♀️ Adina is just a couple of months older and it is so sweet to see how they play together. They adore holding hands and hugging each other! 💗 SWIPE LEFT to see these besties helping each other out in the ball pit during their “gym” class earlier this week. My favorite moment is when Adina gives Mila an extra little boost on her way in. Now that is true friendship! 😍 Makes me so excited for Adina to become a big sister!
After a month of traveling out of town every weekend, it feels great to have a quiet (albeit rainy) weekend at home. 💦 The rest of August is pretty busy, so I’m grateful for a slow couple of days here in Brooklyn, which actually looks quite lush and beautiful after the rain! 🌿 Happy Sunday, friends 💚
What place do you call home? 🏠 This week marked 2 years since @misha_stein and I packed our bags and made the move from Boston to Brooklyn. 📦 After nearly 6 years in Boston, it was a big move for us! So much has happened since the move - we each started new jobs, I launched Ariel Loves blog, we made many amazing new friends, and of course welcomed Adina into our lives. . . . True story: when we were apartment hunting, we only had 4 days to find a place before we left for our babymoon to Italy. 🇮🇹👶🏻🌙 We spent the first 2 days of househunting in Manhattan and must have looked at almost 20 places (not exaggerating!) but nothing felt right.🗽We actually had put a deposit down on one place on the Upper East Side, but something in our guts told us to keep looking. Then we randomly decided to look across the bridge in Park Slope, Brooklyn even though we didn’t know anyone who lived here. 🌉 . . @misha_stein and I immediately felt more at home the moment we walked toward Prospect Park (Brooklyn’s Central Park) down a tree-lined street, full of charming brownstones. We noticed strollers and baby bumps 🤰🏻 everywhere (no joke!) and loved the feeling of the neighborhood combined with its proximity to the Big Apple. 🍎 Within minutes, we were sold, but our time crunch put a lot of pressure on us to find something within 24 hours. We scoured housing apps for hours and stumbled upon our current home on @streeteasy. A true 2-bedroom apartment with a private backyard garden, half a block from @prospect_park - almost too good to be true. 🌳 2 years later, and I can’t imagine a more fitting backdrop for us to write this new life chapter as parents. Happy Brooklyn-aversary to me!
Holding on to these happy days 🤗 It’s hitting me more each day that these are the last few months of just Adina and me before baby sister arrives. 👯‍♀️ So I’m doing my best to slow down and not let these special moments with my mini slip away. 🌿 You can instantly shop all of our matching looks by following me on the @liketoknow.it app!http://liketk.it/2wTGm #liketkit