This video (below) is a commercial for Android, but who cares about that… it features about a minute of adorable animal friends. Beyond adorable.

He’s back.

PS – Marcel the Shell, parts one and two.

Because, Monday.

[via Distractify. See all 30 here.]

Here’s a bit of cute to break up today’s greyness (it’s super cloudy and wet out today in Toronto):  Kids Reenact 2014 Oscar Nominees.  Adorable.

via Grantland

There’s been a lot of nasty stuff going on in the world this week, and it has me a little down.  So when a friend posted a link to “The 30 Happiest Facts of All Time” on Facebook, I loved it.  An instant pick me up.  Take a few moments and have a look.  My favourite is the munchkin cat.  I want one!

Clara, who just turned 2, is obsessed with cats right now. This adorably sweet photo series of a little girl and her cat made me smile. And it also made me want to get a cat. Too bad Ian is really allergic.

[photo by Andy Prokh, via Taxi]

In what must be one of the weirdest tourism campaigns ever, Scotland’s National Tourism Organization is promoting Shetland Ponies in local hand-knit sweaters. I find them strangely adorable.

[via 22 Words]

Happy Halloween!  Here’s Clara in her lion costume.  Cuteness overload.

The amazing letterer and illustrator Jessica Hische is getting hitched to her longtime boyfriend, interaction designer Russ Maschmeyer, later this summer.  As a way to chronicle their love story, they of course collaborated (with a bunch of super talented friends) on a gorgeous website.  Give yourself a good 15-20 minutes to read through this, clicking on all the links.  It’s so lovely.

We spent this past weekend at my parents’ house.  They have a 12-week old “golden doodle” named Abbie. Of course, Clara loved playing with her.  It was overwhelmingly sweet, especially when Clara would pull Abbie around by her leash.