We are a
small family. How great is it to add a
new member!!
We just returned from our Thanksgiving/family gathering in Brooklyn. We left the Peace Corps behind and made the physical and mental transition back to our previous lives for a week.
It is hard to express how much it meant to see our family and welcome our new grandchild into the fold. Sonny is wonderful, and Sarah and Sam seem to have taken to parenthood like pros. They are so at ease with their new son and lifestyle…it was certainly love at first sight.
Sonny is tiny and sleeps most of the time, as babies do, but who gets tired watching him sleep with his arms raised in the proverbial touchdown signal. The pictures below capture proud parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents who cannot resist picture perfect moments. Pictures are doubly important to us as we will not see him again for a few months. Sarah and Sam…be sure to keep those pictures coming.
And then there is the rest of our family! We were so happy to reconnect with Adrienne and Jim after many months away. We really appreciate what they have done to help out on the home front. Many thanks! Brooke and Carter are awesome too. It is amazing how much they have changed and grown in the months that we have been away. Brooke is taller and more beautiful, and she too was enthralled with the new baby. She is already a great sister to Carter, and I know she will be a great cousin to Sonny. She loves her Mimi and Papa as much as we love her. Spending those few day with her will help us get through until April when we see her again.
Carter is all boy, running everywhere, never walking! But he is also very loving and sweet. One of my favorite pictures from our visit is the one showing Mimi and Papa walking down the street in Brooklyn holding hands with Brooke and Carter!
A little bit about our trip out and back. We spent a lot of time in airports and airplanes. We know Honolulu International Airport well. We did take the opportunity to see some of Honolulu during layovers. Waikiki Beach is lined with big hotels and lots of tourists, not a place to which we would choose to return. Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial, on the other hand, were peaceful and inspiring. It strengthened Roger’s resolve to visit Biak, Indonesia where his dad served in World War II. Our arrival back at the Pohnpei airport at 1:30 a.m. was a stark reminder that the Peace Corps owns us for the next four months.
We just returned from our Thanksgiving/family gathering in Brooklyn. We left the Peace Corps behind and made the physical and mental transition back to our previous lives for a week.
It is hard to express how much it meant to see our family and welcome our new grandchild into the fold. Sonny is wonderful, and Sarah and Sam seem to have taken to parenthood like pros. They are so at ease with their new son and lifestyle…it was certainly love at first sight.
Sonny is tiny and sleeps most of the time, as babies do, but who gets tired watching him sleep with his arms raised in the proverbial touchdown signal. The pictures below capture proud parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents who cannot resist picture perfect moments. Pictures are doubly important to us as we will not see him again for a few months. Sarah and Sam…be sure to keep those pictures coming.
And then there is the rest of our family! We were so happy to reconnect with Adrienne and Jim after many months away. We really appreciate what they have done to help out on the home front. Many thanks! Brooke and Carter are awesome too. It is amazing how much they have changed and grown in the months that we have been away. Brooke is taller and more beautiful, and she too was enthralled with the new baby. She is already a great sister to Carter, and I know she will be a great cousin to Sonny. She loves her Mimi and Papa as much as we love her. Spending those few day with her will help us get through until April when we see her again.
Carter is all boy, running everywhere, never walking! But he is also very loving and sweet. One of my favorite pictures from our visit is the one showing Mimi and Papa walking down the street in Brooklyn holding hands with Brooke and Carter!
A little bit about our trip out and back. We spent a lot of time in airports and airplanes. We know Honolulu International Airport well. We did take the opportunity to see some of Honolulu during layovers. Waikiki Beach is lined with big hotels and lots of tourists, not a place to which we would choose to return. Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial, on the other hand, were peaceful and inspiring. It strengthened Roger’s resolve to visit Biak, Indonesia where his dad served in World War II. Our arrival back at the Pohnpei airport at 1:30 a.m. was a stark reminder that the Peace Corps owns us for the next four months.
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| Some of what remains of the Arizona, below the memorial. |
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