"I resolve to post about more than T."
After four days at home, back to work today. It was a great time to be with T and to spend day time hours relaxing with Al. I think it was the first time I've had four days off and not travelled in my entire working life. Kinda cool.
Although Alethea and I were without our extended families, we made the best of the day by enjoying the calm and quiet of a sleepy San Francisco. We went crazy making meals as if there were folks to impress: eggs plates with fruit and lox breakfast, lunch with crab, macadamia and mango salad. We exchanged gifts and opened gifts from family. We even had stockings.
After the eating and gifting, we took a walk up to the holiday house on 22nd and then down through Dolores and the Valencia. We only saw about 50 people on our walk; an amazing un-sight for the city and a reminder of how small the city is.
Here are some shots for the grandparents...This is on our walk back home. Teddy was super fun all weekend and could tell that something was worth celebrating, even if he didn't know what.
Teddy with ginko leaf.
Teddy learned to grab, pull and put things in his mouth this weekend. I guess that's a good thing. I am very grateful for the time we spent this weekend. It was an important development time for him...and me.
Bed time on Christmas night. (Sad parents.) And check out T's rockin' holiday pajammers.
We're celebrating our first Christmas as a family of three. Teddy doesn't quite understand all the commotion, but we're having fun.
Here are some clips for the grandparents. We miss you. (These were shot just after The Night Before Christmas reading.)
We're trying our best to keep holiday traditions alive and create new ones of our own. Thanks to a pre-Christmas Christmas with the Hannemanns last week, the home was decked out for holiday fun. We added seafood (clams, mussels, and lobster) to this year's festivities.
The party continues. A great eve of Christmas eve brunch at Absinthe. Good food, good company, good crowd. Lots of folks heading to the Nutcracker. Alethea has already started making plans for 2012.
Finally using a gift certificate from 2004. Some birthday gifts keep giving.
Meg and Dan in town for the holidays. Meg, Teddy, Al and I met up at the super crowded ferry building and ate at Marketbar. Setting was great.
"I kinda like tummy time," Teddy said, according to his mother.
