5th Year Anniversary

August 24th Aaron and I celebrated 5 amazing years of marriage. It has been 9 years since we met on Notre Dame in Santa Clara - Jen and Tony thought we might be weird enough for each other. Thanks for the enoucorage guys, because as you know, you were right.

Our adventurers are many, but what I have learned this year is that the real adventure is just being together, where ever that me be, doing or not doing, raising Eric, and growing our family.



Being together is timeless. I have already lost track of the years and every minute we have spent together seems like just
yesterday.

Caviar & Karbowskis

Recently we enjoyed both caviar and a visit with our NICU buddies the Karbowski family.

Caviar was definietly impulsive. We found ourselves strolling on the Embarcedero and into the Ferry Building during happy hour. We pulled up to Tsar Nicoulai and indulged ourselves. Having never really tried the stuff I wasn't sure what it was all about, but we found it pretty tastey. Eric opted for his organic sweet potatoes and flashed his big orange grin and big blues eyes to every passer by. I had to slap a few hands away, but I was nice about it, I think.





We also took a drive up to Sonoma to meet Jennifer, Ryan, and Kevin. For our long time readers you know them from our time together in the NICU. Ryan was born September 5, 2006 at 25 weeks and 1 pound 12 oz. (By-the-way, does anyone check the blog any more? I haven't enjoyed many comments lately) Ryan is now pushing 20 lbs and loves to do cheers. Eric and Ryan were happy to play together in the park while we parents took obnoxious amounts of pictures and revelled in the fact that were actually picnicing with our boys rather than cramming cookies and milk down after pumping or eat in the car.



We had a great time, but I don't think the boys had enough toys to play with because the seemed to want the one the other had.

Santa Cruz

We took a quick overnight trip down to Santa Cruz the other weekend. I usually volunteer at a Camp de los Ninos, a camp for kids with type 1 diabetes, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, but this year we drove down to drop off snacks and menus and left the carb counting to the counselors. The camp staff I work have worked with for the past 8 years were happy to meet Eric. Eric was more interested in the flys and very tall trees.



We went down the night before and strolled around downtown Santa Cruz. As the evening approached it got a little too funky for me. It really isn't my scene anymore. After dinner we started our search for the nearest grocery store because we FORGOT DIAPERS. Amateurs. Can you believe we couldn't find a grocery store. While college students are emerging to party we are driving around Santa Cruz desparate for diapers and our bedtime.



We had a good time in Boulder Creek which is just 5 miles from the summer camp. It really is beautiful there.

Lots of motion

Eric is Mr. Motion, always on the move, rolling, scutching, and semi-crawling from toy to toy to toy and book to book to book and anything else he can get his hands on. This week he has also mastered sitting up on his own while wildly shaking his larger toys. Very talented.

Yes those are blonde curls you see. Uncle Sean and Great Grandpa Eric both had wavey hair at one point but that is the closest thing to curls on either side of the family.


Eric loves to play and loves to have people to play with. Last week he played a lot with Grandma L & Grandpa T and over the weekend Spencer and Eric had some great play time after the preemie friend's, James, birthday party. Happy Birthday James. James was born a month before Eric, Ryan, Spencer, and Ms. Pacitaat 27 week and 6 days. He of course is doing fabulous and very much Super James.



Eric gets very excited when someone comes to play. We have had a nanny helping us out this week, Alzira, and Eric loves to show her his toys. He waves his hands and swings his legs in pure joy, and so fast too. He the makings of a sprinter.



Eric may look like and expert eater here but don't be fooled. He rarely hits his mouth or even is face and he is just pretending to know what end of the spoon goes in his mouth. Or maybe, we he really does know how to feed himself and is just putting an act for us.