President Obama!!!!

We have congregated at the offices of McKay Trading today to witness this historical moment. Barbara got patriotic!

Closet Doors

Saturday we had closet doors installed in our bedroom! It is so exciting for us! yay!

The Nursery is Turning Into a Nursery!

Finally! Mark and I spent MLK Day getting our parental act together. We set up the nursery (decided what went where), and decorated it to make it nice and childish. We hung some butterflies, put up some bird decals, strung up the mobile, got a new rug and voila! The room is definitely starting to resemble a nursery! See for yourself. It only took forever.

Abernathy Shares, Simon Meets a New Friend

Tonight we had dinner with Jill, Alan and Simon! Simon had a blast getting to know the saggy Mylar balloon from my shower much to our entertainment and delight! He also got to try out Abernathy's rocker and high chair. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up from him! Above is my very first video post...I hope it works! Let me know if there are any problems and I'll try to fix it.

Click on Simon to view more pics from tonight!


Little Bear!

Now it is 9pm, which is way past our bedtime...good night!

Soul Searching

A father-to-be gazes pensively into the roaring fireplace.

Bon Voyage!

Sasha is heading back to school tomorrow so Mark and I headed over to Kenmore this evening for a delicious last supper. We'll miss you, Sasha! Click on either photo above to view more pictures from the evening's festivities: sewing, sushi feast, Yosemite Sam impersonations and *gasp* a game!

Photo Shoot on Maiden Lane

I forgot to mention...
Last weekend, back when we were still in warm, sunny San Francisco, we had a family photo shoot on Maiden Lane. The subjects were Nona and her men. As part of her daily Mocca experience Nona is serenaded by a fabulous jazz trio. They are excellent musicians who have become quite close with my grandmother over the years. They are shown here, flanking their most loyal fan, along with her sons, Jim, Josh and Michael. As you can see the photo shoot was quite the spectacle, and soon a crowd gathered to see what all the fuss was about. It was a lot of fun! The camera the photographer uses is really old...I don't know the details about it though.

Manual-Schmanual

I was going over my photos from San Francisco with Mark last night after we got home from the airport, and we were surprised how blurry most of them turned out. I don't have the greatest vision to start with so I couldn't tell until I imported them that anything was that fuzzy. Anyway, Mark checked out the camera and located the problem: it was set to be manually focused. Of course, I didn't know that, and wouldn't have known what to do about anyway, so I was pointing and shooting as if it was doing all the work for me. Long story short, here are some blurry photos of the Grodzins family in San Francisco for your enjoyment!

Chicago

We are back in the frigid Midwest. It's a high of 16 degrees today. Good to be home...

Thank god we're getting out of town again next weekend! The upcoming trip to Florida is our so-called "babymoon" and we'll be cutting it pretty close to the cut off date for flying. I'm officially grounded starting the 30th of January (32 weeks), so I'm getting some much needed traveling out of my system before then. I can't handle being stuck in Chicago for an entire winter...I can't even imagine what I'm going to do here for an entire February!

This picture was actually taken from Midway, the morning Mark and I left for Baltimore. It was cold then too.

Friends and Family

Sasha's friend from Parker, Julia, is temporarily living and working in San Francisco. We had the pleasure of spending Saturday and Sunday together, shopping, snacking, stretching and catching up.