Talker

Just realzed we have not posted any talking vids in a while and madeline was telling us about her friend Eliana today so we thought we'd share.

baptism video

trying to get a video posted from sunday.
we wish you could have all been there
especially Godfather Shawn and grandparents/great grandparents but
we felt it was especially poignant to have her baptised at our church in
san mateo before we left and had to do it sort of last minute.
im sure you are all used to that from us by now!!

let me know if it works on your computers, ok?

long time coming

Its been too long but with traveling, the move and madeline's baptism, houseguests and rounds of illness, im sure you all understand..

i wont write much but just want to post a few pics from this month:

At the zoo with her boyfriend, Zygo (her godmother, Jill's husband of 3 years- congrats!)

Pretending she's a big girl- you cant fool me, you will always be our little baby!

Swimming last week at school, having a blast

Posing at church before her baptism with our surrogate family in California (nana and papa and tina, maria and her godparents minus Shawn of course)

Fun in SF with Grandma and Jason

My Mom found this awesome African drumming circle and she just could not wait to jump in and dance with them! it was so crazy. Check out the video of mom learning how to Caipoera!



Okay, well maybe it was Madeline who wanted to jump in to the frey. she was a boogie crazed little girl with her dad so we went over to see up close.
She was fascinated by the drums and the dancers and they thought she was a perfect fit.



She had some fun with Uncle Jason, we went to lunch in Hayes Valley and then we took this pic in the park on the way home.
Mom is so mad at me for posting it bc she forgot to smile- but we had to prove she was here after all!


We had a blast this week with Grandma Mary here. (Madeline calls her Maury, i think. It sounds like the Gaelic word for grandma but we still havent heard it officially pronounced.)
We went to the zoo, the city, shopping, the parks, out to dinner on the water- the works. Grandma got a few chances to babysitt and play with Madeline- they never even noticed i was gone. it was a great time. We are so glad we had this week together! (but we dont have many pics to show for it since mom wont let me post them!)

grandma mary is here

don is gone so mom flew in to keep us company!
she brought a dress up costume for madeline who promptly put it on
and kept saying "hood" and "walk".
so grandma had to take her for a walk to show off her spots!

they are having such fun together it is so exciting to see.

Here is a quick sneak peek since things are kinda chaotic
right now.
more eventually...