Congratulations Naomi and Toby!!

Last weekend we flew to NYC to attend Na0mi and Toby's wedding. It was a whirlwind trip and so great to share it with them!! Congratulations!!!

Naomi and Toby's Wedding Weekend

A New York City Hall wedding experience! :-)

The ceremony. The City Hall was very nice and lots of happy people were there to get married.
The newly married couple!
The reception. The name of the area is escaping me right now... it was a very nice terrace restaurant overlooking the East River.

Helen made lots of friends during her trip (see Will playing peek-a-boo on right). :-)

Cutting the cake.

The next day was rainy (luckily it held off for the wedding and reception!), so we headed to the Met for an hour or so.In case you were wondering, yes, D was there too. We have about 75 photos of Grecian urns and statues to prove it. Here's one.
I took this pic for Cathy.
Getting tired on our feet.
Walking around a bit during a break in the rain.

Happy happy joy joy

Helen is such a happy girl. :-) She enjoys trying to "feed" herself. Probably would help if I gave her a spoon and not a fork.
She escaped during a diaper wrestling match. Helen -1; mommy-zip. Thanks for the advise on the last post everyone!
We are baby proofing "as we go". Had to move the basket of garlic and onions after this discovery.

Catch up

Daddy helping Helen on the walker.
Ditto. She's got snoop dog-type drawers going on.
We headed to Savannah, GA on a whim last memorial day weekend. H was great. She seems to like to be dragged around everywhere, so it worked out well.
Savannah has really cool trees. We had to watch Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil after we got home. It's one of my favorite movies and it was fun to see the city and other places of note in the movie. We've now visited all the cities in Georgia with names of G-babies. :-)
Bonaventure cemetery was really cool and not too creepy in the day time.
We had to drive down to Tybee Island so H could get her toes wet in the Atlantic ocean.

A little late afternoon snooze.
Bonus bathtub shot.

P.S. H is doing great as of her 9-month check up a couple weeks ago. Still very long (at 95 percentile) and leveling out in weight (75 - 90) which I guess is a good thing according to the Dr. We are having more and more trouble in the diapering department though. I've been meaning to do a web search on "diaper straight jacket" or "diaper stun gun" and see what comes up. It's become almost a 2 person job, and even that is a process! Oi! Any suggestions?

Goings on

I think this is the first weekend ever that I did not take a single photo of Helen. Perhaps we were too busy? We did go to a Greek festival, twice in one day! It rained early in the day, so we decided to leave and go back. Helen had a lot of fun staying up until 10 pm watching dancing and the carryings on. We all had a lot of fun! These pictures are from a couple weekends ago. Since Judy called and demanded more, here they are!

She found another stash of magazines.

Helen before playing tennis with Biffy and Muffy at the club.
We ventured to Anna Ruby falls, a little north (?) of Helen, GA a couple weekends ago. Helen, GA is a silly little town fashioned to be Tyrolean village or some such theme since it's in the "mountains". Driving up there (it's about an hour and a half away), it did start to look a lot like VT. Since it had so much going for it in terms of name and venue, we had to check it out.
It was a really pretty, stroller friendly walk up to the falls.

I hope this isn't a true reaction to seeing lots of rocks and trees and such. There are many more she will get stuck seeing with us as her parents!

Smiling Through the Tears (and drool)

Picture day! Here are some of Helen's friends. Supreme's on her right Rose and Mark. He's a cutie. Then Ellie and Kourtney. I don't know who the little mite is. She's new. And teacher Ms. S is the best! :-)

My Muffin

Momentous Week

It's been a really big week for the H-meister. Here are the highlights:

• As of yesterday, she can crawl!
  
• As of yesterday, I noticed in the millisecond I was allowed to look in her mouth, a tooth is breaking through on the bottom!
  
• She saw grandma and grandpa live over a webcam! Thanks Cari for suggesting we skype the other weekend! We feel so technically savvy now.
  
• Our house is a mess because Helen can crawl! (see pics below)
  

SOOO happy she can go where she wants!
Oi.
Said mess. She likes our stash of old magazines, especially the Smithonians which come easily apart thanks to the 3-staples that keep it together.

Her second attempt approaching Walter. The first attempt ended in a brief standoff where Walter reared and threatened a good bop on her head. He relented and slunked off. Bad kitty. He's all show, no worries.

We ran around grocery shopping last night, after the glorious first day of crawling, and she fell asleep on the way home. I got her ready for bed and she was still snoozing so I took a few pics. She woke up 2 hours later and played and played until almost midnight. *Sigh*

Helen in action!