Posted by Katherine on October 28th, 2008
This week Ted had two visitors from New England! A friend from college spent Thursday afternoon with us and my sister, Christine, stayed with us from Saturday till Tuesday morning.
Auntie Christine gave Ted his first taste of prunes. So far I think prunes may be his favorite food, but that isn’t saying much, since he isn’t very excited about the whole eating process. So far he has had rice cereal, bananas, sweet potato, pears, and now prunes.
Christine also gave Ted his first drink of water from a cup. She gave him some from her own glass of ice water and he loved it. He did let a lot of it fall out of his open mouth, but he swallowed some of it and asked for more. I have been giving him some of mine now and decided I should get out some small plastic cups from Pat’s childhood to try out on Ted. That was a no-go. Ted has no interest in drinking from a small green cup.
While Christine was here we ate at the Cheesecake Factory, went to the NC State Fair, carved pumpkins, and went to the park. She made us a roasted chicken for dinner one night and then the next made the leftovers into a pot pie the next night. So good! She also let Ted into the container cabinet for the first time. He loved that! Sat right down and got to work exploring all our containers and lids.
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Posted by Patrick on September 5th, 2008
Hard to believe its been two years since we left little Rhodey.
What a thing to do…. pack up and head off into the country with nothing more than a Craigslist handshake and a couple of disgruntled cats.
It’s been great, though. And sad sometimes. And awesome other times. However hard or silly or non-Yankee its been (and sometimes it was all three at once), it’s all been worth it.
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Posted by Katherine on August 10th, 2008
This week went by ridiculously fast… probably due to the fact that we had mid-week visitors!
Gram and Pops arrived via Harley on Wednesday and snuggled Ted straight through Thursday and then continued on down the coast.
While they were here on Thursday Ted, Gram, Pops, and I stopped by Pat’s work to take him to lunch. We took the Celica, not the Harley, although that does give you an interesting Dr. Seuss-ish sort of picture in your head. We all walked over to the Carolina Cafe. Very tasty.
When we got home from lunch WSKate came over for a little visit.
Here is Ted playing his new piano.
And here are a couple more pictures of Ted, just because he is so adorable.
And who doesn’t like puppy pajamas?
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Posted by Patrick on July 1st, 2008
This past weekend we were just sort of hanging around so we decided to drive up to New England and get our kid baptized. Good times hanging with the fam, and we’ll post up some photos when we get them back from the photomatt.
We also got to visit Erin and Jay who we hadn’t seen a while. They fed us, hooked Ted up with some cute welcome-to-existence prizes and then watched Ted for us while we go to drive their sweet new ride, a 2008 Honda FIt Sport.
So nice of them to let us take it for a quick spin. We each drove it around the neighborhood a bit.
The thing that stood out to me the most was the redunkulously tight turning radius. I was pretty sure that the back wheels were turning too. But this was no 1987 Honda Prelude with four-wheel steering. It was, in fact, the little hatchback that begged to do donuts. Around a single donut. (Note to Erin and Jay: We did not perform donuts in your nice new car. Just turned around in a cul-de-sac. Then we took it off a sweet jump. Twice.).
Besides driving in circles, I also used the paddle shifters located just behind the steering wheel. It’s an automatic, but the gears can be shifted manually and without a clutch. I thought it worked well (and better then the Mazda 3 paddle shifter I tried before), but its still a little confusing for me because I’m shifting gears and there is no clutch pedal on the floor. I think if I had a Fit, I would use the paddles.
The rest of the dash layout was clean and intuative. The speedometer and tach had a cool blue light around it which I thought was cool in a blue-lights-are-cool kind of way.
Acceleration was right about where I thought it would be – fairly quick but not quite neck-snapping. It’s 109 horsepower engine isn’t quite what you’d want in a top-fuel drag race, but the car is light and the driver will probably be rewarded with respectable fuel economy.
As far as exterior looks go, I like the Fit from most angles. Every once in a while it looks like a 2002 Civic SI. The tall windows make it look a little van-esque sometimes, but for the most part it feels very much like a hatchback.
The inside is giant and it’s seats fold in useful ways, just like every hatchback should. Jay gave us a full dealer salesman like-demo of all the seat modes.
Kate and I both agreed that we would buy a car from Jay. In fact, if he still had his giant Chevy Caprice battle cruiser, we would totally buy that from him.
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Posted by Katherine on May 25th, 2008
This week we may not have taken any photos of Ted (Gasp)! It has been a crazy week. Ted has been very “busy” and very “fidgety” as well as super expressive. He’s definitely got the “ah goo” vocab word under his belt and has been humming and making all kinds of noises to express himself.
His new thing is to be happy and cooing at us or happy and kicking his legs while watching his mobile and then from out of nowhere -baby angst. Its hard to be a baby.
And since I didn’t take any photos this week and have a zillion from last week, here are some more from our trip.
Great Grammie spending some quality time with Ted.
Ted with Auntie Kim
Ted hanging out with Jenny.
What parties with babies are like:
The new dads
Great Nana getting to know Ted.
Great Grampa passing on some wisdom.
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