Sorry for the blog silence, it's been a busy month, and blogging with a baby (while on holiday with family) is proving a lot harder than I anticipated! Anyway, we finished off June with leaving dinners for friends in Beijing and a 2 month checkup at the doctors for William.
Then we flew to Rochester on the last day of June. We figured if William is going to join this International Family of Mystery we might as well start him on the travelling part of that young. So far so good, even despite delays in both Beijing (2 hours) and Chicago (2 hrs) (effectively making it a 24 hour journey) he basically slept or ate for the entire flight to Chicago, and then the flight from Chicago to Rochester. We rested, played and walked around during the pit stop, and he maybe fussed for 5 minutes the entire time. Travelling with a two month old is the way to go, though, I think this has probably set my expectations pretty high for how he'll travel in the future! :)
We spent the first week just enjoying being at the Lake. We also drove down to Syracuse to meet up with Aly & Tom, check out their new church ward and soon-to-be-new house, followed by a picnic in the park.
An added bonus was getting to celebrate July 4th in the States with Andrew's family. We haven't celebrated Independence Day in the U.S. since we were living in D.C. in 2006 shortly after we were married. We started the day with a local parade, which was fun. Marching bands, local politicians, the police and fire departments, high school kids, local bands, all sorts of people. It was cute, and noisy, but William managed to sleep through most of it regardless of the horns and sirens blaring! His cousin, Catalina, had fun meeting Uncle Sam and collecting candy that the parade folks throw out. William even managed to snag a tootsie roll, though I confess I helped him eat it.
Then we flew to Rochester on the last day of June. We figured if William is going to join this International Family of Mystery we might as well start him on the travelling part of that young. So far so good, even despite delays in both Beijing (2 hours) and Chicago (2 hrs) (effectively making it a 24 hour journey) he basically slept or ate for the entire flight to Chicago, and then the flight from Chicago to Rochester. We rested, played and walked around during the pit stop, and he maybe fussed for 5 minutes the entire time. Travelling with a two month old is the way to go, though, I think this has probably set my expectations pretty high for how he'll travel in the future! :)
We spent the first week just enjoying being at the Lake. We also drove down to Syracuse to meet up with Aly & Tom, check out their new church ward and soon-to-be-new house, followed by a picnic in the park.
Caught at rest (twice), bathtime towel fun, cool even when napping, figuring out the whole hat thing, and picnic-ing.
An added bonus was getting to celebrate July 4th in the States with Andrew's family. We haven't celebrated Independence Day in the U.S. since we were living in D.C. in 2006 shortly after we were married. We started the day with a local parade, which was fun. Marching bands, local politicians, the police and fire departments, high school kids, local bands, all sorts of people. It was cute, and noisy, but William managed to sleep through most of it regardless of the horns and sirens blaring! His cousin, Catalina, had fun meeting Uncle Sam and collecting candy that the parade folks throw out. William even managed to snag a tootsie roll, though I confess I helped him eat it.
We ended the day on the deck with a BBQ, corn on the cob, a delicious salad, and a vanilla cake for Aly's birthday. Followed by Everett watering the plants, while Andrew played 1-on-1 basketball with Catalina, and we watched the boats sail in.
Stay tuned for our adventures once the rest of the siblings got into town!
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