In the garden

Emmett and his Mom harvest a bumper crop of carrots from the garden, just in time for school.

Camping

Summers are ridiculously short in the world where Emmett and Oscar and their parents live. While visions of hot summer nights and basking in the sun prompt them to go camping, often the reality is below zero temperatures and rain. Fortunately, they make the most of it, and this summer, enjoyed some pretty good camping trips. Minus sleep, that is. The littlest StranMcCann is still getting used to sleeping through the night in a tent. Either that, or he's being woken up by the snoring of his parents in such close quarters.

Uncle John, the non-camper, makes a surprise trip out West to join StranMcCann.

Warming up in the car.

Throwing rocks into Beauvais Lake. Note Emmett's trendy camping attire.

Watch out bears. There's a moose in the hood.

Tickle party in the tent.

The bitter taste of defeat

Unclear why this gag never seems to get old.

Ten months old

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake hit central Alberta and was lightly felt in Rocky Mountain House, a town of roughly 7,000 people.  Liberia's President apologized for the high death toll among health-care workers who have fought an Ebola outbreak, which has killed nearly 1,000 people in three countries. The U.S. military says it has conducted four more airstrikes on Islamic militants in Iraq, after U.S. President Barack Obama proposed a broader long-term strategy to confront militants. Eighty Australian firefighters have been deployed to British Columbia, where fires have destroyed 200,000 hectares of land, the largest area scorched in the province since the 1950s. And Oscar celebrates his 10 month birthday.

At ten months, Oscar has sprouted three teeth - two on the bottom and one on top. Photo shoots are getting harder and harder, as he never stops wiggling. He can roll from back to front, but not front to back, which means he gets stuck and has been waking himself (and his mother) up in the middle of the night for the past two weeks.