Ethan comes home

Ethan 's now been with us for ten days, and they've been busy. Dave's parents were here for several days, and then Meg's parents for a few more days, which meant lots of fun grandparent time for Ana. She also really, really likes holding her little brother.

Ethan arrives

Ethan was born at 2:36 in the morning on March 16. Here he is a few hours later, and here's Ana meeting her little brother for the first time. She was interested, momentarily, and then decided that running around hospital hallways was much more fun.

getting ready to be a big sister

February

A few highlights from a mostly uneventful month - the calm before the storm.

St. Thomas

We spent last week in St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands), where January isn't quite like it is in Maine. Ana rediscovered shorts. We spent lots of lazy time sitting on the beach (Ana loves sand) but also took a trip to nearby St. John, where several of these photographs were taken. A pretty lazy trip, but perfect for a year-and-a-half-old girl.

The photo with the pond in the foreground and ocean in the background shows the view from our condo. Importantly, the pond had ducks. Ana spent hours looking at, and talking about, the ducks. The previous photo shows the view from our beach, with Virgin Islands National Park (on St. John) across the water.

The Christmas Post

Christmas 2009 took us to Chicago and then to Boston. The photos, which never seem to appear in the right order, show Ana with various relatives at both places. Christmas highlights included seeing relatives young and old, opening lots of presents, and, perhaps most importantly, discovering bubble wrap.

Halloween

This was the first Halloween that Ana really got to celebrate. She did it in style. The photos show her with baby friends Ava and Bowden and with neighbor Kai. As you can see, he went for the stretch move and got away with it.