Sunday, July 20, 2008

Meeting the Inlaws

Steph has been teaching a class at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz this past week and next, so my mom is staying with us to take care of Evan while Steph is gone all day. Obviously I don't get to see Evan for most of the day since I'm at work, but for Steph this is a new experience and it's been a bit of an adjustment. Fortunately Evan has adapted just fine -- if he was having any problems spending the day with Grandma I'm sure Steph would be pretty much a wreck.

On top of that he's been running a fever the last few days because of his most recent vaccinations (he seems to be having a reaction to the measles/mumps/rubella shot, which is pretty common). It's made him a bit clingy, and in some ways that's kind of nice. He even fell asleep in my mom's lap a few days ago, which he hasn't been willing to do in months! So Steph feels like she's missing out on some bonus snuggly baby time in addition to the day-to-day interactions she's used to. The class has been going very well, though, and she's enjoying being around other arty types, so her sacrifice is resulting in some benefit.

Anyway, that's not really what I was planning on talking about. Since my mom is staying with us for two weeks my dad came out for the weekend after a conference, and since this was going to be the only time they'd be in California before my sister Hallie's wedding in September they took the opportunity to meet Hallie's fiancé Mark's parents for the first time. We all went to Chouinard Winery, where the wedding will be held, for a picnic and some swing dancing at a Music in the Vineyards event. It was unseasonably cold that evening, so Steph and Evan had to do some dancing to keep warm:


Unfortunately Steph and I didn't get to dance very much, as we had to take turns following Evan around and keeping him out from under peoples' feet and tables. (Have I mentioned that Evan is a walker now? He's been motoring around for the last week or two... we haven't caught it on camera yet because we've been too busy chasing him down.) He also made a new friend:

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