Social Butterfly

Sylvia and her parents have been working towards the twelve week mark with our eyes on Aurelia's return to work. Even though she will only be going back for two weeks we've all been a bit anxious: Aurelia is concerned that there will be adequate leche for Sylvia to bottle feed, Sylvia is touchy that her favorite toy-Senor Ducky- will be available, and Miguel worried that he will still get to sleep more than Aurelia.


To work on Sylvia's social skills we motored over to our friends Nititsh and Sajini's home to join them, Nitish's parents and some friends for a fine dinner. Sylvia spent a good deal of time crying but eventually quieted down enough for a group picture during dessert. (The bowls below contain homemade jamun, one of my favorite confections. You can't eat just one...dozen).









Soon after Sylvia went to pieces and we beat a hasty retreat to the car and a long, long, long 20-minute ride home.


So with some trepidation we faced the coming week and the new schedule. But we needn't have worried. Help was on the way. Even as Sylvia was screaming in her car seat, Susan and Stephen (aka Granny and Grandad) were driving north from Arizona. Upon their arrival S+S read our two pages of instructions, surveyed the leche supply, and started the easiest week Sylvia has ever enjoyed. Sylvia slept a great deal of the time and had her fill of bottled momma's milk. They even took her out for walks where she...wait for it... slept peacefully. Gasp!
















With Sylvia well taken care of Aurelia went off to the hospital and her meetings and I spent a few days in San Francisco attending some software training for work. The software, named Ecotect, will be used for building energy analysis during early design. I'll blog about this software, it's pretty cool, another time.









More exciting was a chance to see Brick, Meg and their new daughter Ayla who was born four weeks after Sylvia. She is beautiful and we can't wait to get the two girls together some play time soon.

Pic "borrowed" from Brick's blog 'cause I forgot my camera in Portland.
See more of Ayla at Brick's blog.

The week concluded with dinner and drinks for the whole family at the McMenamin's Kenny School Tavern where the ladies had a much deserved pear cosmo and the gents had beers.

Mom has buffalo wings and baby samples the thumb.