Shedd Aquarium

Family Membership to the Shedd! Yay!

Baby Mixer

Weeks ago we had a delightful reunion with our New Moms Group. Here is a belated upload of a picture from that gathering! From the left, Pauloc, Chloe, Miles and Milo gather around the coffee table chattering and catching up.

Hide and Seek

where is panda hiding? can you find panda?

Panda Blogs

Here's Panda doing her best impression of me on the computer.

Garfield Park Conservatory

Today Panda and I went to the Garfield Park Conservatory with Jill, Simon and Harry. We had a lot of fun!! It is so warm and beautiful there and it smells very nice. Don't you just love that?

Here we are in the poinsettia garden. It was like living in a floral arrangement.

Auntie Sashi

Caution: extremely belated post!
I did my major blog update yesterday night and I forgot a very important happening of last weekend...Auntie Sashi was it town for Thanksgiving! We got back from Boston Saturday morning, so we got to spend a good part of the weekend together, which was really nice.


Don't they both have lovely shiny hair??

Baby Mixer

Today we had a super fun play date with Susie and Skyler and Aimee and Leila. Skyler and Leila were both born in August so they had quite a lot in common and Chloe enjoyed playing with babies who were younger, if not smaller, than she.

Chloe rocks Skyler in the baby lounger. So sweet.



Leila is all smiles for the camera!

Yum

Chloe absolutely adores children's literature. She literally devours books!

Reading with Christmas Chicken.

Swine Flu Shot, Part Deux

Okay, I guess she's officially vaccinated. That wasn't so bad...
Here's Chloe in the doctor's office on Tuesday, stoically waiting for shot number two.

Ho Ho Ho!

'Tis the season...to decorate my house in as much sparkle and glitter as I want and play Christmas carols all day long! My favorite time of year! Christmas-Elf-Panda and Mrs-Claus-Cookie helped me decorate the house while we rocked out to the "Santa Baby" station on Pandora.

Pretty in Pink

Panda Portrait

Boston Grodzins

When we were in Boston we ended up seeing relatives from the Grodzins side of the family as well. A happy time was had by all! We went swimming with Dean, Nora and Lily at the Charles Hotel and had a wonderful time. The girls looked like sisters with their ringlets and sparkling blue eyes! Chloe was absolutely fascinated by her beautiful, charming, sweet and silly older cousin. We also got to see Misha and Kelly and stay up late Wednesday night. That was a special treat for sure!

Thanksgiving in Boston

This year we went to Boston to celebrate Thanksgiving with Mark's side of the family. It was a grand Woodall-Neville-Oates reunion and the Thanksgiving feast was perfectly scrumptious! Chloe had a wonderful time reconnecting with everyone and showing off all her new skills. For the first half of our visit we stayed at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge and on Thanksgiving morning we moved in with Aunt Anne and had a big slumber party with everyone! It was so much fun! We miss everyone now that we're back in Chicago, but we're looking forward to seeing everyone at the end of the month!

November

I'm sorry there haven't been more posts and photos of our lovely Panda since mid-November! How awful! Here are some Panda pics to tickle your heartstrings: