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Grandma's Visit


My mom was here helping us for two weeks and sadly she left yesterday morning. This is the third trip she has made to Boston in the last 11 months and I can't even describe how much we appreciate her help!

Silas & Zoe turn 11 months (!!!) tomorrow, so it's an interesting age for an "outsider" to come into the house full immersion for an extended visit. S&Z are all about Mommy & Daddy right now, so it took them a little while to get used to having another caretaker around. But before you knew it, they were all warmed up and loving having Grandma here 24-7!



Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate as much as I would have liked. I took 4 days off from work while she was here in hopes that we could get out and do some fun stuff. It ended up raining the first week of her visit. I needed to get some fall clothes set for S&Z, so we ended up doing some clothes shopping.

We also went to visit my friend, Eliza, at her parent's house in Wenham (about 1 hour north of Boston). Eliza has been traveling around Europe for the last 6 weeks so it was great to see her again!



Eliza's nephew, Sam, who is the same age as S&Z happened to be at her house when we visited, so it also turned into a fun playdate!



Grandma spent a lot of quality floor time with S&Z during her stay,



And she helped out with baths!


We tried to skype with Grandpa Dave, but ended up having internet connection problems.


We introduced S&Z to JP Lick's too!



They liked the taste of the strawberry frozen yogurt,


But they weren't sure about how cold it was.



Of course there were lots of songs and stories too.



And a 3-generation picture was taken before Grandma left for the airport.


Another great part of having my mom here was getting out of the house without the babies! Derek and I went to an awesome dinner at Ten Tables in JP; I went to an LCN party at Vanessa's house and stayed out until a whopping 10:30pm, and I also went shopping with a girlfriend one afternoon.

Having Grandma visit put a big deposit into our emotional bank account. Thanks, Mom!!! We love you!!!!!
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