Tundra Topics: Iris's First couple weeks

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Iris's First couple weeks

It's been awhile since I've blogged one -handed (one hand being full of baby) So here goes!

Just wanted to share pics anyhow.

Esther is the best big sister!

She's found her thumb! :)

Tuluk's visit to IN the week of labor day was awesome -- great family time, and he didn't quite roast in the Midwestern heat --yay.

Our wonderful family! :)

2 comments:

Bob said...: What a beautiful baby,and a beautiful family! And Cate! you look great! I can't wait to meet her, love Jodi; September 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Liz said...: Hey Cate! This is your cousin Liz :) I'm excited to see that you have a blog too. My mom directed me to it, and Iris is so adoreable. Congratulations to you all! We welcomed baby Devin on Aug 4th, and it's been fun :) I hope that we get to meet her at a family function soon! Enjoy her and the time you get to spend with Yaya!; October 2, 2008 at 3:22 PM

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Esther with Auntie Erin at the big spitting fountains at Millenium Park, Downtown Chicago

Pictures of Summer & Fall 2006 Travels

We had a great summer of travel -- which extended into a great fall of travel after the tragic burning of Hooper Bay school gave us a few more months of vacation. Esther was 1 and a half this summer, turning 2 just a few days after we returned to Hooper Bay in November of 2006. Below are pictures going backwards from our last trip of the fall (to visit Sunny in California), our road trip to homecoming at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, our train trip through Pennsylvania, New York, and Toronto, to our visit with Ya-Ya in Indiana, and our first campout ever in California!

Warren Wilson College Homecoming Celebration, October 2006

Esther and I took a ride on the draft horse wagon, around the farm valley. It was so great to take this road trip down to North Carolina and visit old friends (some of whom had never met Esther!) and show Esther all these places special to my heart. It was kind of wild to me that it was all new for her, that since she is so familiar to me and so are these places, that it was strange that she wouldn't know these places already. It was kind of wild to think of myself, without her, in college years earlier. It's really hard to imagine my life or myself without her, now. :)