Florida

Last weekend we brought Emily to Marco Island, Florida to introduce her to some of Alasdair's extended family. Emily did GREAT on the plane, slept well while we were there (despite cutting her first tooth!), and was generally just very happy to meet her Great Grandparents Groves, Uncle Bryan & Aunt Michelle, Aunt Jill, and cousins Megan, Alexa, Dalton, and Taylor, as well as cousins Dan & Jesse who were visiting from CA at the same time. Alexa (4 years old) was especially excited about "baby Emily" and spent as much time as possible playing with, holding, "helping" bathe & feed, and otherwise entertaining her. Emily seemed to return the love, and gave Alexa her biggest smiles & laughs.

I barely have any pictures, which I think is either because we were mostly taking video (maybe someday I'll figure out how to post video here) or because we had a professional photographer present (Jesse did take some shots of Emily for us). Here's one of Alasdair with Alexa & Emily. Note that he is playing cards at the same time: there was a game of pinochle (the Groves family favorite) going just about 24/7. Not pictured, but also always present: Dr. Pepper & Fritos. :) The time there was too short as always, but it was great to spend the time we had with family that we see too rarely!


Oh, and I'll also mention that Philadelphia got over a foot & a half of snow while we were gone. It made us sad to miss it, but we were VERY grateful that ours was late enough that it was not among the many canceled flights (and that our initial 6 hour delay was shortened to only one). Here's Emily looking out at our winter wonderland.