May
31
Last weekend our friends Nat, Syndi, and their daughter Sophi hosted a farewell dinner. Nat is a fellow law student who just graduated with me. He is originally from Hawaii and is now returning with his wife and daughter. Unlike some of his fellow graduates, he has a job waiting for him. We will all miss them greatly. They have been such good friends to us over the past three years. And they have hosted many wonderful parties, but Saturday’s was exceptional.
Syndi is a chef and as a goodbye she put together an amazing six-course dinner with wine pairings for each course. The food was truly delicious and the wine was perfect! We love you Syndi and as much as we will miss you, we may just miss your cooking even more!
(from left to right: Nat, Stephen, Amy, Jonathan, Syndi, Mike, Melissa, Me, Josh, and Joseph in the front)
May
29
It has become more and more difficult to give Eleanor a bath in her infant tub. She loves to splash and thus soaks everyone and everything around her tub, which we place on top of her changing table. We also have been washing her hair in the sink so that we can keep the water out of her eyes, but she is getting so heavy and strong that she won’t hold still and we are afraid that she will bang her head on the faucet. We thought about just moving her tub into the big tub, but our bathroom is small so it is hard to reach in to wash her. So, we decided that because she can sit up on her own we could just put her in the big bath with me.
It worked perfectly. I am able to be close enough to wash her and make sure she doesn’t fall backward or forward into the water. It is also much easier to wash her hair. In her little tub she wouldn’t lean her head back to rinse her hair, but with me in the tub with her she feels comfortable enough to lean back on my legs so we can easily rinse the soap out of her hair.
Overall it was a success! More fun than her little bath and much less clean up!
May
20
Sunday was my last day of freedom before I have to start studying for the bar so we went out to Babies R Us and got Eleanor a new carseat for each of our cars. She has outgrown the infant carseat and now has to move up to the convertible car seats.
Then we had dinner at Pick up Stix.
Eleanor looked lovely in the evening light.
After dinner we picked up some dessert at Cold Stone.
