City Mouse

We've discovered that Bea is an urban girl - every time we go to NYC she ends up taking some fabulous naps and actually sleeps like a baby. She loves a lot of stimulation and New York offers her a grand amount. Last trip we spent time in Midtown, this trip we started in the Lower East Side where she had her first cup of tea at Teany and got to see Nana buy some pickles straight from the barrel. While Tom caught a train to go see "Sweeney Todd," Bea, Nana, and I meandered through Soho and Nolita and did a lovely amount of window shopping. We stopped at a playground and let Bea down from the backpack - she was mesmerized by the basketball players. We took the subway back to Grand Central and met Tom for the ride back to Larchmont. Bea is a public transportation old-timer!

Christmas in CT & NY

We packed up the car and headed down to Uncle Matt and Aunt Janet's lovely house in CT for Christmas Eve. Bea got to spend some quality "skootching" time with her cousins and met her uncle Christopher, fresh in from CA, for the first time.

She seems to be getting the present thing down, though she mostly wanted to play with her cousins' toys.

Bea is One!

Carrot cake from the 158 is good! Bea has no idea what's going on with the candle/cake combo, but she's having a great time nonetheless. All of Bea's greatest supporters came to wish her well and she was very happy to feel the love. She managed to keep it together throughout the party but, as the photo shows, did give it up afterwards. This is a rare sleep siting for Bea - it warms a mother's heart.

Bea's First Trip to Minnesota

Beatrice and I hopped a train down to Boston, stayed with our pals Laura and Tina, and jetted off on a non-stop to MN the following day. The plane was completely full on the way out and I must say that little Bea was a natural on her first flight; I, on the other hand, was a wreck - trying to nurse next to two guys with laptops proved to be interesting! But, we arrived to two smiling grandparents and the adventure continued on the ground. Bea met her uncle Peter and her cousins Sarah and Pete for the first time and got to spend some time getting to know them. She also met our friend Sid and almost got to take part in a jam session. We were sad to leave (especially because it meant getting back on a plane and a train) but we're hoping to coax some of those folks out this way sometime soon.