Enjoying Friends

We met our good friends, Megan and Carlo up in San Francisco and had a delicious dinner at an Italian place in the marina.  It was so nice to see them and catch up!  The following night we had friends over to our place.  Our friend, Steve, will be finishing his post-doc and leaving Stanford to go to Cambridge in February.  Noah was very excited to have him and his wife Caroline over to our house because they have British accents and they like Star Wars and Harry Potter. The first time Noah heard his accent he asked him why he talked funny!

We went to Mike’s lab’s annual holiday party at his professor’s house.  Noah has been looking forward to this night for weeks!  Professor Moerner has a robot that’s named Rosie that Noah loves. She’s controlled by a remote and she can even bring drinks!  Amelia wore a onesie I found in one of my favorite catalogs (Uncommon Goods) that  has a picture of a pink microscope that reads, “I Love, Love, Love my Microscope”, needless to say it was a big hit a the party since Mike’s lab builds microscopes.

Lucy LOVES Amelia!  Every time Amelia is in her OSV (Over Stimulation Vehicle) Lucy puts her front paws up so she’s at eye level with Amelia and gives her kisses.  She only does this when I’m not looking because as cute as it sounds, I’m not a fan of the dog licking the baby.

I have to get back to doing laundry, packing and getting ready for all of us to fly to Utah on Thursday, we'll be spending Christmas in Park City with my family.  One last picture to share, Noah feel asleep on the couch like this and before moving him to his bed I had to take a picture.

Making a List

Now that we know we’ll be moving to Texas this summer, we’re making a list of everything we want to do, see and eat before leaving the bay area and it’s a long list.  One of my favorite things about San Francisco is when they decorate for the holidays and put up the ice rink in Union Square. It really makes the city come alive!  We decided to take Noah up and go ice skating and eat at a breakfast place we’ve been wanting to try.  Noah and I had a blast ice skating but he’s going to have some serious bruises!

When choosing restaurants in San Francisco, I usually use Yelp.com as my guide to find out if it’s “Kid Friendly” (most are not).   When choosing the breakfast place we went to before ice skating, I made sure it said “Kid Friendly” but when we got there it was clear that my idea of “Kid Friendly” and their idea of “Kid Friendly” were not the same.  After waiting in line for outside for about 45 minutes, we were seated at a table where there was a GIANT photo of a topless model from the 1920’s.  Mike and I strategically placed Noah below the photo so he wouldn’t see it, we were tempted to take of photo of Noah sitting below it but knew it would probably cause him to turn around and look at it.

 

Amelia has started doing a few new things in the past week, one being when I hold her after coming home from the studio she tries to literally eat my face.  Sounds weird, I know, but it’s absolutely adorable and makes me feel special since so far she reserves it for her mommy.  Mike was able to capture it on video this morning.

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Another new thing Amelia has started doing is diving for the food on our plates.  I guess this means it’s getting close to the time I should start her on rice cereal.  It’s a little sad for me because since she’s been born I’ve completely sustained her, which has been very special to me.  The other reason I’m holding out a little longer is because she is CHUBBY (and don’t get me wrong, it’s adorable) and until she’s able to move a little more on her own I think I should stick with breast milk.

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 And lastly, she has started kicking her legs hard when she's lying on her back.  It truly amazes me how fast she changes, I wish I could freeze time!