Changes-a-bunch

Were heading up to Ethan's first birthday next week--and boy has he been growing up in preparation for his birthday!

1. He's starting to walk. He has been a great cruiser for months, but only recently has he gotten up the courage to take steps alone. We still have to bribe him with crackers, but he's getting better. Check out this video (I hope it works, sorry it is sideways I don't know how to flip it)!




2. He now has 8 teeth! That's 6 new teeth since Christmas.

3. He has developed attachments. Not too long ago, he wouldnt look twice at any of his stuffed animals. Now he loves the--and in particular a blue monkey which he kisses all the time.


4. No more bottle. We phased it out over the past month or so, and he's doing great without it.

5. Cow's milk. Whole milk, yum!

Our Boston Blog!!!!

Our family has just moved to Boston for the year, and so we have started this Blog to keep in touch with family and friends far away!
I am not sure how frequently we'll be able to update, but I thought I'd give it a try...


We arrived here July 9, 2009, for fellowship--Jason will be doing a cardiac anesthesia fellowship at the Brigham and Marla a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Boston Childrens...
We ate toting our 5-month old son, Ethan Daniel with us....This has turned out to be interesting, very fun, but challenging at times.

We have a great place that we are subletting from a family who is on sabbatical this year in Argentina. The place came fully furnished, complete with baby toys, as they also have a young son. It has 3 bedrooms, and is so (comparatively) spacious that we don't know what to do with ourselves (for those of you who didn't know, Jason and I were sleeping in the dining room the last few months in San Francisco...). It is in a neighborhood called Cambridgeport, which theoretically is right across the river from where we are working. We haven't really figured out how to get there yet. We actually tried once and got horribly lost and it ended up taking almost 30 minutes to get home as we got caught in horrible traffic at Fenway park (which is also across the river).

Here some pics:

the exterior of the building

our living room

Ethan's new toys

We spent the fist few days just getting used to the neighborhood. As alluded to above, Boston is an extremely difficult city to drive in, especially since neither of us have really spent much time here before.
The first day, even with the help of a GPS we got completely lost trying to get to the post office, which is approximately 8 blocks away.
The following day, while attempting to find Target we accidentally crossed the Charles River the wrong way twice. I still don't understand how it happened. And today...lets just say that the 45 min drive to the beach took quite a bit longer--since we managed to miss several highway exits, and also a side effect of the "big dig" is that GPS units don't seem to work downtown.

It was a beautiful day, however...we headed north to a place called Cape Ann, a beach called Wingaersheek Beach, which was absolutely beautiful. Ethan enjoyed the day too! It is located outside of Gloucester, which is famous for being the setting for the movie The Perfect Storm.
Here are some pics:

Needless to day, we got totally lost coming home.
Oh well, tomorrow is another day!