We survived!

Well, we're back from Boston and everyone survived! Brian and I survived our first vacation away from the babies, the babies survived life with grandmas and grandpas, and the grandmas and grandpas survived watching the babies for several days! Brian and I had a wonderful time. Boston is gorgeous. The weather was perfect, we did some fun things, ate some great food and slept in every morning! We hit all the big historic spots in downtown, went to several museums and the aquarium, rented a car and drove to Salem and Tanglewood to see the Boston Pops, went to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, and took a boat cruise of the harbor. It was great!

While we were gone, the babies had an exciting advancement. When we left, Will had one little tooth poking through, when we got back, all three of them had 2 teeth poking through! They have been a little bit grumpy and running low grade fevers from the teething, but they're surviving. They are sitting by themselves very well. Except Xander, who sacrifices his personal safety to reach a toy. He will fall forward, sideways or backwards as long as he gets the toy he was trying for. They're still enjoying their solid foods. Peaches, plums, apples, bananas and pears are all hits. We're going to try a vegetable this evening for dinner and see what happens. I don't know..... We were only gone 6 days, but it is amazing how much bigger they looked when we got back. We bought them t-shirts in Boston that say "Future Harvard Freshman" and "Harvard class of 20??", so I'll take a picture of them wearing those soon. I posted a couple pictures of our trip, since I didn't take any pictures of the babies this week.

Top: The skyline of Boston and Boston Harbor from our boat.
Middle: Brian sitting on one of the wharfs looking out into the harbor.
Bottom: Us at Tanglewood.

For those of you who don't know what Tanglewood is, it's where the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops spend their summer and do outdoor concerts. It's up in the Berkshire mountains in western Massachusetts, very close the New York border (very close to where I lived in New York). We saw the Boston Pops with John Williams conducting all his best movie music. They played "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "War of the Worlds", "Memoirs of a Geisha" with Yo-Yo Ma on the cello and "Star Wars" with James Earl Jones narrating. Steven Spielberg was there in the audience, too. It was absolutely beautiful. It was cool, around 60 degrees, but there were probably 10,000 people there. We sat in what they call the "shed" (that building behind us in the picture), which is an outdoor concert hall. It was very neat!