Marathon Day!

Thanks to Boston's love of city-wide events and gratuitous holidays, the I. family was able to spend this past Monday - known in most other parts of the country as a "work day" - celebrating the Massachussetts-only holiday known as Patriots Day (which is not, as one might assume, as a tribute to the beloved hometown football team - at least not officially). To most locals, this means a) watching the Sox, or b) watching the Boston Marathon! We opted for the latter, and so Eva spent one of our first truly beautiful spring days of the year with a front-row seat as the Marathon-ers rounded their final bend through the Back Bay to the finish line.


The weekend's gorgeous weather also afforded many opportunities to take our new sweet set of wheels - the Bob Revolution ATS (that's all-terrain stroller, thank you), a holiday gift from Eva's Grandpa P-M and family - out for a few spins; not surprisingly, Eva is a big fan of facing forward and seeing the world, though it may mean our days of napping in the stroller are over.

Baby in the lead!

Probably not the primary intended use for the Thunder Stick...

Mine, all mine!

Feeling sassy in her new ride.

Belly Attack!

Eva-lution

It's been almost six months since Eva joined the scene, and by now she's almost tripled in size. Weighing in at over 16 pounds, she crawls (mostly backwards, and usually face-first), she rolls, she bounces, laughs, grabs, holds, watches, yells and sits. So much action, with so much more to come! Here's an update of the last couple of weeks, with a Day 2 picture thrown in just for perspective...

Two days old and already a Lert.

161 days old and having a ball...

Props for propping up!

At the BBQ joint with the girls...

Deeply unconscious.

Looking far too cool for school (but never to cool to drool).

Wondering what Gordon's up to...

The world-famous El Rollo manuever (click twice to play).

Cape Cod, Uncle Tod, & EVACADO!

It's been an eventful few weeks for The Eva. She travelled to Cape Cod and laid eyes on the ocean for the first time. She stared and stared, apparently wondering what the heck IS that thing?

The next weekend she got to meet her Uncle Tod, who was at least as fasinating, and lots more fun. Those two had many giggles together. Eva can't wait until he gets back from Chile so she can get more belly laughs and hopefully drool on his forehead again...

And during Tod's visit, Eva had her first food (we knew she was ready because lately she won't stop staring obsessively at our food during meals...while licking her lips and making chewing noises). Her first meal...AVOCADO (EVACADO)...mixed with a bit of milk. No adaptation period was necessary, she ate it like a hungry badger and licked the spoon. Next stop...banana?

I'm pretty sure I can work this thing myself, thanks.

Tod & Eva...Cual cabeza es mas grande???

Enjoying the springtime Boston sunshine (nice photo, Tod!).


Cape Cod...baby style.

Evacado#1...

... and Evacado #2 (click twice to play)