The family that squints together stays together! The Deane family finally got to the beach for the first time this Summer, now that it’s almost over. Better late than never right!? Although we couldn’t even swim in the ocean because of the Red Tide, womp womp. We flew to Orlando from Charlotte on Friday 8/24 at 5:30pm and the time worked really well for Ollie, although he had a really late night, only going down at like 9:30pm. It was so much busier flying with an almost 11 m

Ready to leave Charlotte on our 24 hour trip to South Africa. Oliver looks a little concerned but he had nothing to be worried about. The stroller was so helpful to have in the airports but we hardly used it once we were in SA. Ps – I can’t find that teething necklace anywhere! Going to visit family in South Africa was a great idea for so many reasons. We were able to disconnect from social media for a little while to fill our days with swimming, board games, drinking tea, go

Catch up on previous updates: Oliver’s birth story | Month 1+2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 Daniel captured this special picture of us at his sister’s place outside Pietermaritzburg in SA. At 6 months, Oliver has already flown over 17,000 miles to South Africa and back. We recently took a month long trip to South Africa and I feel like we brought home a totally different baby. Isn’t it amazing what they can learn to do in a month? One day he was face-planting while trying to