Let's play catch up

Okay. So, here's the entry where I put in some of the things that I didn't get around to blogging about when they happened. Here it goes...

1. A few weeks back, the ladies met for our second "stitch & bitch" session at Naomi's. It was a chance for all of us with and without babies to get together, eat some good food, drink some good drinks, either learn how to knit or to continue working on knitting projects, and enjoy some good conversation. Funny how really the only bitching came from the babies, who all took turns crying at some point during the evening.

From left to right: Lisa and Iman, Joc and Bibi, Jill

Naomi (holding Vince) and Karen

Naomi and Vince

Bibi and Iman: post-bitch, pre-nap

2. Beau, Sylvie and I took a trip down to Coventry, RI, mid-July to visit our friends Carolyn and Doug and their 21-month old son Mason. We met Mason last year but it was the first time they met Sylvie. It was fun seeing them...Mason grew quite a bit since we last saw him and was busy running around and exercising his right to proclaiming all his toys, "Mine!"

Carolyn and Mason

Sylvie checking Carolyn out

Sylvie, trying to get a leg up with Doug

3. Beau's Mom flew in at the end of the month for a quick visit before heading off to Morocco with Joc, Amine and the twins. Here's a picture of the growing Tremblay clan...

The circle of babies

4. And, while I'm at it, I might as well throw in something from quite a ways back: Amy's running of the Boston Marathon. I've been wanting to post something about it for a while since I didn't get around to it then and have been trying to figure out how to throw it into our blog somehow. Mission accomplished!

She finished 9248 out of about 22,000 official entrants; finished 2249 in her gender and 1689 in her division by running an 8:23 minute pace on average.

Beau, along the race route in Newton...ready to jump into the fray

How she was able to stand after running 26.2 miles is beyond me!

Some of her biggest fans

The Wadsworth bunch