McLennan Family Adventures
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We didn’t totally abandon this website, but let’s just say we’ve had a lot of things going on the past 3.5 months.
Brenda has been great. She’s a bit more work than Marcus was the first couple months, but really, she’s a doll. She smiles and giggles and is fun to be around (most of the [...]

Introducing Brenda
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With our little Marcus running around, I haven’t had much time to give updates about my experience as a happy pregnant lady.
Currently, I’m 30 weeks along. Slowly we are preparing Marcus for the arrival of his little sister. We predict that Marcus will have a hard time to share his mom, dad and toys.
Besides a [...]

Today was Marcus’s 2nd birthday. To celebrate, Christine baked a cake and I frosted it. Mom sent us a dinosaur cupcake pan for Christmas, so I thought I’d break it out and give it a go. It turned out pretty good if I say so myself (and I do). We made some whipped cream to [...]

This was the first Halloween that Marcus was awake for. Unfortunately, he had been sick and Belgium isn’t big on trick-or-treating, so he only got to wear his costume around the house before he went to bed.

Every year, Brussels and most of the larger cities in Belgium have a car-Free day where people can walk, ride or skate around the streets with only the buses and taxis to look out for. It was an absolutely beautiful day so we took Marcus and our bikes on the train and spent a couple [...]

It was a week of firsts for Master Marcus.
Saturday was a family get together with Christine’s family for Easter. We had a nice lunch and then the kids got to hunt for eggs and candy in the back yard.
Not only was it the first Easter Marcus could participate in, it was also his first time [...]

Marcus learned the hard way that he’s about the same height as our dining room table. He was doing his usual laps between the living room and the kitchen when he suddenly veered into the corner of the table as he was passing it. Fortunately, it’s just a nasty bump and not something that required [...]