Monthly Archives: June 2010

Our friend Kristin celebrated a belated “golden” birthday on Sunday with a picnic at River Park. We spent a great day with friends, enjoying veggie dogs, homemade pickles and some refreshing radlers. We just dodged some rain upon arriving, and … Continue reading →

On Friday, we packed up the stroller and headed over to May Fest. Our neighborhood is traditionally German, and the alderman’s office throws two big beer-and-polka bashes to greet and say goodbye to summer. We headed over early, when everything … Continue reading →

The first full week of Mathias being home went pretty well. He’s still sleeping a lot, but he’s alert too (as you can see below, with dad, who’s maybe not quite so alert). We’ve also enjoyed playing with all of … Continue reading →

Unsurprisingly, we’ve spent a lot of time hanging out at home over the past week. Mathias has been really great so far–he eats pretty regularly, and he even sleeps through most of the night, so we seem to be dodging … Continue reading →

On Sunday, we took advantage of the nice weather to build the stroller and step out into Chicago. We headed up into Lincoln Square, hitting the bank before picking up some albums at our favorite record store, Laurie’s Planet of … Continue reading →

Mathias snoozes to a little lullaby-style Queen, courtesy of our friends Andrew and Karen. The Rockabye Baby! producers take all kinds of hard rock tracks and give them the soothing treatment with vibe, clavichord and singing bird arrangements. Our friends … Continue reading →

Grandma, Aunt Sara, Uncle Nathan and Michael Bennett came in to meet Mathias on Saturday. Everyone had a great time; grandma was determined to get in as much baby time as humanly possible! We were even treated to some great … Continue reading →