Meeting More Family

Much to our collective joy, more family came to meet Maceo for the first time. Uncle Steve, Aunt Kate and Cousin Mad ventured to Boston from Philly to meet the youngest family member. While the visit was fairly quick, we packed lots of fun into the 48 hours. Unfortunately, the photos only document our final hours together when we went to Chow Chow City in Dorchester for Dim Sum.

The weather was beautiful on Thursday so we spent the day wandering the city. After some general strolling, we took advantage of the crystal blue cloudless sky to take a trip 52 flights up to the Prudential Tower to get a magnificent view of the city. Did you know that they used enough steel in the Big Dig that you could wrap the circumference of the entire WORLD in a three-inch band of steel (factoid from the audio tour of the city that I found especially noteworthy and troublesome). From there we went to the Boston Public Library for a quick tour, and then culminated the day with Burmese take-out. Just when we thought the night was ending, our fabulous family afforded Craig and I a rare date-night opportunity and watched Maceo while we went out on the town for a couple hours. I'd like to note that I conducted the most precarious of diaper changes to date - with Kate's critical assistance - in the 3x3 bathroom of an indian restaurant. With Maceo perched on the top of the toilet we managed to completely change his entire outfit - from head to toe - after a world-class blowout. By the end I was sweating bullets and there was a line for the bathroom, but we managed to keep the baby off the germs and the poop off of us.

While it went by way too fast, we were left with the lingering warmth of having such a wonderful family to share in our joy.