Vacation, the first week...

Much thanks for your patience while we were away, and for dealing with the relative dearth of posts.  It's been a long couple of weeks, and we've done a lot more than I could possibly fit into one post.  So I'll start at the beginning, as much to give myself some time to mentally organize the past few days as to proceed chronologically.

Besides, he's grown over the past three weeks.

Initially, we were supposed to leave for Block Island on the 14th, but the new house wasn't nearly ready - no flush toilets - so we spontaneously popped out to New York to see Nonni and Poppy.  How spontaneously?  We talked to Nonni on that Tuesday morning, and were on our way by 3pm.  The only delay was that I had a meeting at 1:45.

It was a lovely few days of relaxing and hanging out - with Nonni and Poppy, of course:

(Nonni got kisses, too)

... but also with Aunt 'Chelle, who got lots of snuggles in.

And oh, the laughter that ensued...

Ah, if only we'd known how much we would need that relaxation!