Teeth: The better to eat apples with

We've had a busy, but the good kind of busy, weekend here at the Naegle household (of course, one of many Naegle households). Saturday we got to see our friends Vasu and Rachana for brunch (we made pancakes they made idli. We subsequently bought idli dough at our local Indian shop and they now know how to make pancakes)! Then last night, our friends AJ and Susan came over for dinner (and of course they brought their killer chocolate pudding and a fantastic Belgian beer). That visit was bittersweet as Susan is moving to San Francisco in early October, followed by AJ in December/January (although, the idea is we slowly move all our friends to the west coast and then we follow...Megan might be looking at postdocs in Seattle ;)

Today, we went for our fifth year in a row (we think we've gone every year), to the Brookdale fruit farm in Hollis, NH to pick apples. Unfortunately, it was very early season, so several of our favorite varieties weren't quite ripe (so we'll have to go again!). This was a fantastic opportunity to get together with some yoga mom friends I had made on maternity leave. It's a really fantastic group of women and of all the groups I had participated in over maternity leave, this one I really feel connected to and want to keep in touch with. Also, for the first time, John got to meet them and we got to meet their spouses! Below are the 'girls', left-most is Siri and her Dad Dave (mom not pictured is Jarasa), then Scott and Charlotte are center (mom Tara) and on the right is Jane, the oldest of the group (mom Edua and Dad John). Davis is quite a bit younger, Siri and Charlotte are two weeks apart and are about 7.5-8months and Jane is 9months. I think the thing I realized today that was so refreshing is that for the first time I have met non-scientists/engineers in the last five years (ok, a couple are scientists/engineers, but one is an architect, one an architecture photographer, a clinical psychologist and a business analyst)!

We tried Davis out in the backpack we had bought when I was about 36-weeks pregnant. He loved it! It was great that he could pick trees while Dad picked apples.













It went so well today, that we hope to hike next weekend (more like a walk in the woods..but it's a start).

The biggest news of the weekend (aside from me actually trying on a pair of pre-pregnancy pants and then subsequently wearing them, oh and that the University of Washington BEAT 3rd ranked USC) is that Davis has a first tooth! His lower right front tooth has broken the surface! He's also eating like a champ now. Tonight he scarfed down an entire serving of carrots in just a couple of minutes. We followed this up with some bubbles, which he LOVED and Lilly HATED. We also got to talk to Grammie on Skype. So you can see it was a big weekend for all of us, and the picture below pretty much sums up how we feel now.