Grandma Leu Visits Maggie

Joel just drove off to the airport to drop off Grandma Leu, and we are real sad. It was so wonderful to have Carol here for the past week. It's always so hard to have family spread all over the country, so we cherish our times we have together. And with Maggie growing up so fast, we crave, more than ever, family time to share her. She is just such a little lover & all you want to do is stand on top of a small mountain & tell the world the news!

Joel & I just took our first overnight without Maggie, thanks to Carol. We spent the night up in Sonoma with Shawna & Chad at the Farmhouse Inn, www.farmhouseinn.com. Our room was really, really luxurious... we had a HUGE jacuzzi tub, a wood burning fireplace & even a sauna. Definitely a new hip spot to stay in wine country, and your right in the heart of the Russian River Valley which has always been our favorite area up there.

We had a fabulous dinner at the restaurant, tasted some great wine at various vineyards (and brought a decent amount home!), and enjoyed just being an adult for 24 hours. You kinda forget what that's like at times! I think one of our highlights, besides eatting & drinking our way through wine country, was the candy shoppe in Healdsburg... 'I like your sleeves... they're real big!' (a quote from napoleon dynamite)

Maggie LOVED her time with Grandma Leu. Everytime Carol walked in the room Maggie just lit up & started kicking like crazy. She adores her Grandma. We kept Carol busy with trips to the fabric stores, a picnic at the Conservatory of Flowers, shoe shopping in the Haight, a visit to Joel's pharmacy & Lavish, dinner at Lupa & 6:30 AM WAKE UP calls thanks to the bright eyed & bushy tailed mz Maggie! It IS her best time of day.

We are looking forward to our midwest trip to Fond du Lac in June. It will be fun to introduce her to the rest of her family. Hard to believe, but I imagine she will have perfected her crawl by then & will be everywhere!