A Happy Girl

Lydia is one happy girl. She is pretty much laughing and smiling all day long, every day. (Exception: nap time.)

Lots going on here these days. Lots of photos this week.

We have Lydia laughing on the slide, discussing where she plans to go to school while out to breakfast, crocodile walker walking, crocodile walker walking in the wind, crocodile walker walking in the strong wind, and, we were finally able to get a photo of Lydia doing her funny scrunch-face-heavy-concentration-breathing.  There is also a video at the bottom of the page of Lydia coming to see me when I got home from work one day this week.

Here is the video.

Have a great weekend!

The Fridge, Ice Cream, and Crocodiles

Lydia likes to explore in the fridge. She likes to take random items out of the fridge and set them on the floor and she especially likes the button that turns the fridge light on and off.

This week Lydia also had her first taste of ice cream (not to be confused with her first taste of frozen yogurt back in Denver). We walked down to Smitten, which is a super cool ice cream shop here in SF. They made the ice cream in front of us using some crazy liquid nitrogen process, which was very interesting for Lydia (and us!). The ice cream was a big hit.

Lydia started using a walker this week. It has crocodiles on it that open their mouths when she pushes the walker. Which is kind of weird. We take her to the park most days so she can have a little more room to walk around. She's super funny with her crocodile walker.

And here is Lydia with Mr. Pig getting a little extra sleep.

Have a great week!

Greece

Congratulations Ryan and Shireen!

Last week we travelled to Santorini to celebrate Ryan and Shireen's marriage.

Beautiful couple. Beautiful wedding. Beautiful destination.

Our route: SFO-IAD-LHR-JTR-ATH-LHR-SFO. Here we are on the train in Heathrow airport. A real couple of nerds. We left SFO early Saturday morning. This was Sunday morning, about 20 hours in.

Note: Lots and lots of photos. More than 100 lots. So we have a new photo setup this week. To help the page load, the galleries are in grid mode. There are multiple galleries as you scroll down the page. You can click through the photos in each gallery if you want to see them full size. Here we go.

Sunday. Heathrow to Santorini.

Monday morning. Santorini.

Monday afternoon. Catamaran welcome reception.

Tuesday morning. Photos of the island.

Tuesday afternoon. Bus to Ceremony.

Tuesday afternoon. Pre ceremony.

Tuesday evening. View. Family. Sunset.

The next morning we were gone. Here were our roommates.

Thank you to Grandma for taking care of Lydia while we were gone. We are not sure if Lydia even knew we were away!

Swimming and Reading

This week we went to Lydia's first swim lesson. It was a big hit! She loved playing in the water. Here is a video.

And some photos.

Another milestone and a hat.

Lydia is also a big fan of board books. Her favorite book is Opposites and she likes to dig through her toys to find it and hold it up until we read it to her. This week she started to flip the pages while we read it to her. Here is another video.

In other news, we are (hopefully) traveling to Greece for Ryan and Shireen's wedding today. Grandma is staying with Lydia for a few days while we are gone. Thank you Grandma! We are praying that it goes better than this.