Do you want some O's?

L is getting better and better at eating, and one of his favorite treats is Annie's Organic Bunnies & X's & O's cereal! He is also finding a new appreciation for some of his old favorites in their more solid forms, like butternut squash and sweet potato.

NY, part 1

L visited Grammy at work, PS 131Q Abigail Adams in Queens. He was very interested in all the books and fun stuff on the walls. He was also very happy to meet all of Grammy's teacher friends.










L enjoying the boat on the Nautical Mile. Grammy, Pop Pop, K and L went to the annual festival, but the line at Ralph's Italian Ices was too long, so J was all too happy for us to wait for him to arrive and go there on Monday!












The pack is back together!












Extreme close up!












L after enjoying his dinner at the Greek Festival that my parents (and I when I lived here) went to every year for Father's day.











L with Grammy and Pop Pop


We have been in NY since June 5, and after his meeting at Bard, J stopped in for a couple of days before returning to Michigan to get in some good times with us since we wouldn't be returning until June 28. J has to hurry up and get some work done on his manuscript as he is now under contract with Palgrave Press, and K needs to get a substantial amount of work done on her diss as well -- so we needed some help from the grandparents to make that happen!

We have been enjoying our time here. L is in the pool almost daily (pictures and videos to come on that), and so far Kim has written 8 pages on her current chapter.

how many??

Today was a rough nap day. L went down for a morning nap just fine, but then for his afternoon nap it just wasn't happening. He slept for 30 minutes and was up. We tried an hour and half later and then he slept for only 15 minutes. I had the presence of mind to take a look in his mouth to see if there were some new teeth coming in, especially since he has been drooling really really hard. Right now, his two front teeth, plus the top incisors are broken through and the bottom two are in. BUT, I could see the canine/eye teeth coming in and I could feel one incisor in on the bottom coming in. Thankfully, I've got grammy and grandpa to help - I'm exhausted and so is he!! We managed to distract him a little with more time in the pool.

Kim

Another plane ride

Remind me to ALWAYS book a direct flight even if it costs a lot more! L was great by most standards, but he was pretty ticked off by his own. We had a lot of delays at every leg--leaving Lansing, arriving into Chicago, leaving Chicago, and arriving at LaGuardia. We were supposed to have arrived at LGA at 1:16p and we didn't get there until around 2:45p -- so we got up at 6a and were not at my parent's house until somewhere in the 4p range. Not as bad, door to door as the CA trip, but the on/off and the palpable stress of those around us from all the delays were hard.

The moment of hilarity on the trip: We sat in the back row of the plane for the Chicago --> NY leg and L thought all of the people heading to the rest room were there for his entertainment. He kept everyone in good spirits. And while I managed to keep him out of everyone's hair so that he couldn't pull it, he did get a bit fresh with a young high schooler who was wearing short shorts. She thought he was cute. Her classmates standing next to her looked at L with envy that he could get away with a move like that and they never could! LOL!