It was almost a year ago to the day when a picture of two men, Frankie Nelson and BJ Barone, holding their new born baby in the delivery room was taken.
It was a private, special moment between two men becoming parents for the first time.
Aside from this being a picture of a same sex couple, shirtless, holding their newborn baby boy, what was also so unique about this moment was that the child was born the day of the 2014 Pride Parade in Toronto – he was a Pride baby and a bit of a celebrity.
Last year Global News met up with the Fathers just a week after their son was born.
They were overwhelmed with emotion and pride at the thought of becoming new parents and having their baby, named Milo, born during Pride.
The couple said Milo was born via a surrogate, who the couple refer to as family and keep in touch with on a regular basis.
Fast forward a year and Milo is a bouncy, healthy, loud, curious baby boy who keeps both his Dads on their toes, but overwhelmed with joy.
“Life has been crazier and crazier as Milo gets older. I was home for 10 months of the year for parental leave. I was there for the baby sleeping stages and eating stages and BJ has been lucky enough to get the new stage of the baby running around, into everything, pulling everything”, Nelson told Global News.
This year Pride Toronto 2015 will have a different meaning for both Frankie and BJ.
Instead of holding their annual Pride party, they will be celebrating their child’s first birthday.
They also attended the Family Pride picnic for the first time saying the experience was incredible, getting the opportunity to spend the day with other families and their children.
In addition to the fact that they are parents now, the couple will also be walking the parade route as fathers, with this year also marking their first Father’s Day.
Barone told Global News that for him, every day is Father’s Day because it is about being together as a family rather than exchanging cards and gifts.
When it comes to parenting the couple said that although they are a same sex couple, Milo will be raised like every other child, in addition to the fact that he will be taught about acceptance, diversity, and awareness.
The Fathers both say at an early age they want to explain to Milo why he has two fathers, whereas other children have two mothers or both a mother and a father.
In addition to that, the school Milo will be attending has many diverse families making it easier, the fathers say, for their son to understand the dynamic of their family.
So the big question now is will the couple have another child?
They say it’s something they have been thinking about more so these days as they look into the future, but right now as Barone put at the end of our interview, “our family is perfect.”