The big 6 months for Egan

On March 24th, Egan turned 6 months old! He celebrated with his first airplane ride:

And taxi ride:


To come with me to Houston, Texas for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. We were met there by my mom, who spent 3 days taking care of Egan so I could go to the conference. Egan had a GREAT time with Gram. They had morning cuddles, ate pears, strolled. I find it a little stressful to travel alone with Egan, but it was great not to have to leave him again.

On Friday night, there was some sort of astronomical alignment and not only could my dad drive down, but so could Seth and Michele, and my Aunt Kim happened to be in Houston visiting my cousin Derek who had just moved there! We all had dinner together!

<< I'm having trouble importing all the cute pictures - so I'll have to post them later >>

Egan got to hang out with little opa


and take a snooze on Aunt Shell.



It was a big (annoying) return trip home when we got stranded in Washington DC and it looked like instead of arriving at 5 pm Saturday as scheduled, it would be 8pm Sunday or more likely sometime Monday morning. It was 11pm on Saturday night--I had a hungry, tired baby with me. I was exhausted. Luckily I met another stranded Roanoke passenger, we rented a car together and made to 5 hour drive home. I got in at 5 am. It basically took me all week to recover!

Right before our trip, Jake's Uncle Bob and Aunt Mia visited for the afternoon - we all enjoyed the warm sun.