May 12th, 2006
To NYC
Of course you can’t ever get enough Colin pics - this one is a couple of weeks old, but it’s one of Colin’s first “own cones”. That’s his obsessive chant as we get anywhere near anywhere that serves ice cream. Most often that’s the Dairy Queen, dangerously located within a couple of blocks of our house. We just sort of let him go to town on this one, and he was loving it. Notice the full facial coverage of vanilla soft-serve.
As Jess mentioned, we just got back from a quick trip to NYC to visit with Colin’s grandparents. It’s great taking a trip with almost no agenda. In this case, we did arrange to go see Spamalot on Broadway (which was hilarious), but other than that it was just a chance for my Mom and Dad to see Colin after 5 months. Also had a chance to catch up with friends, and couldn’t believe that anyone other than our parents (hey Riss) actually reads this blog - nothing like some motivation to keep this thing updated.
I couldn’t believe how well Colin did in the car. We drove straight through (~10 hours) both ways, and even on the way home he was remarkably well-behaved. Probably a bit of exhaustion mixed in there, as his sleeping issues kicked into gear while we were in Tarrytown.
Speaking of sleep issues, I think I’m running a serious sleep deficit, and I’m not sure when I’m going to catch up - the wail-a-thon Wednesday night didn’t help anything, as I ended up sleeping on the couch so that I could try to get 4 hours before heading off to work.
But we’ll muddle through - got my first organized run in quite a while (probably since the triathlon in 2003?) coming up over Memorial Day, just a 10K. I’m not planning on breaking any records.
Here’s baby boy with the first stuffed animal that appears to mean anything significant to him, affectionately dubbed ‘bunny’. On occasion he’ll sit Bunny down, then sit down across from him, and start having a conversation with Bunny. And one of these days we’ll hopefully capture that on the video camera (where is that camera again, and how much did we pay for it???)…
