Eva at 11 months

Eva just had the best time getting to know her great-grandparents, Gordon and Betty, during their visit out from California. We spent time visiting Boston, riding the T, exploring Winthrop and Malden, and discovering a certain tiny Italian restaurant that we will definitely be frequenting in the future.

Sporting her sassy new chapeau from G-Grandma Kibbe.

"Garcon!"

Eva decided she enjoyed playing inside boxes so much during the move, we can't stop her! Here, she found a mostly-full diaper box and decided this would be her new play space - er, office - for at least, oh, 20 minutes or so.

"I told you to hold my calls!"

The leaves are starting to turn...time to pull out the puffy jackets!

"Where's the moose??" (I suppose you had to be there. Though, even if you were, you still might not get it...unless you're Eva, of course, who thought this was HIGHlarious!)

Taking a stroll on the new Rose F. Kennedy Greenway (former site of I-93) opening celebration.

Showing off all those new choppers.

La Casa de Eva

Okay, so we've been a bit remiss in posting pics of the new digs. While it's a bit embarrassing to admit, we never quite got around to taking pictures ourselves, so we're going to borrow the pics taken by Gordon (Eva's "bis-abuelo") this past weekend during their wonderful trip out to visit. (Maybe we'll even - eventually - get around to posting pics of the inside someday!)

Street-level view (including the driveway of death - at least to bumpers and fenders. Jetta still isn't speaking to Cat.)

A view of our backyard, including parking, shed, and grass (with Eva's sandbox in the distance!) - taken from the back of the house.

Another shot of the house - from the back this time. As you can probably tell from this and the other shots, there are few particular overly friendly trees in our yard...the professional tree trimmers are paying us a visit tomorrow, to the relief of our roof!

Eva the Wheelie Queen

Turns out Eva LOVES wearing a helmet...who knew? Today was her first-ever bike ride...we took her to "Hub on Wheels", a big charity ride that shuts down most of Boston for a few hours. Eva had a great view of the Charles River, Storrow Drive, and all the Boston landmarks...she was laughing and yelling for 9 of the 10 miles before passing out in her seat.

With Mama in her "Ibert" bike seat.

Eva would yell "Yeah yeah!" before every downhill


Relaxing downtown...

Post-race potassium.

And sometimes after a hard day on the bike, you just have to drive yourself home...

Speaking of home, this is Eva's favorite porch pastime!

Moving time!

A couple weeks ago we loaded all our earthly belongings into a U-Haul - again - and moved to our very first non-rented house! We've had a little time to settle in, and are already finding ourselves a little overwhelmed by the seemingly endless list of projects - both little and big - we'd like to take on. Is there such a thing as home improvement ADD?

A few highlights thus far:

Moving Day! Now which box was the baby in, again...?

Baby summit! Lily and Eva meld minds (as Amy and Cat run interference when necessary).

Enjoying our new backyard - and sandbox! - on one of the last happy days of summer.

Have we mentioned Eva has started feeding herself? Yeah, we've had second thoughts about it too.

Enjoying the new bathtub.

Eva's learned a few things in her many months of life, including, now, how to give - and take!

Fun with Moving

As most of our friends and loved ones may already know, the I. family just bought its very first house, and is preparing to move in this coming week (ack!). As intense as that sounds - and is - packing with a 9 month old baby has its unexpected pleasures...

Flower Baby

This past weekend brought us to Portland OR, City of Roses, for Natasha and Tom's rose-tastic (and beautiful!) wedding, where Eva was the Baby of Honor (more commonly known as the Flower Girl) in a red wagon and a basket of flowers - most of which did NOT end up in her mouth.

We then visited the Portland Rose Garden, Japanese Garden (both of which Eva slept through) and Zoo, which Eva woke up for and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of - in particular when she got to touch her very first goat! (The frantic dancing and waving was almost too cute for spectators to bear!) Was it because she found a kindred spirit in one who loves eating random inedible objects almost as much as she does?

At the wedding brunch: "Excuse me! I'd like to make a toast, please!"

Eva in her chariot.

Wearing white at another girl's wedding? The nerve!

Is someone a little too jet-lagged to party at the reception?

Eva makes a new friend at the Oregon Zoo.

Giving her papa an appropriately disapproving look for making this picture happen (also at the Zoo).

Admiring the Zen garden and sand rakings at the Portland Japanese Garden.

A Strange Critter

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