Anchorage

We were in Anchorage last week for the Alaska Bird Conference. Dave was giving a talk and Leo and I decided to tag along and visit some friends in the Big City. I had thought about presenting a poster at the conference. I don't know what I was thinking. I'm glad I didn't! My head just wasn't into it. I think I listened to 3 talks. Hard to focus having Leo there. Leo watched Dave's talk and decided to voice his opinion about Dave's analysis on Steller's eider duckling brood survival. Not sure if he agreed with his Papa!

It was great to see everyone!! The weather was fabulous, we managed to get out and go for walks on the Coastal Trail. Eat good food. Do a little shopping. And Leo did great in the hotel. He slept in the pack and play and improved his crawling skills while we were there. I tried to take him to the poster session but he was melting down quickly. His early bed time doesn't jive with evening social events!

oops. This photo is from right before we left Anchorage

We ran into Signe, Melinda and Hamish at the Anchorage airport! Nice surprise. Hamish is ~ 6 weeks younger than Leo.

Doing acrobatics in the bed instead of napping

At the Teriyaki Box with Heather

Snow City Cafe for breakfast with Ann

Teal the squirrel :)

At NPRB office with Carrie

Our friends Ayme & Jim had their son Liam on the same day Leo was born. Our birth stories are almost identical! And they are also synchronizing their development! We finally got to visit with them and it was wonderful to meet Liam and have the boys meet each other.

With Jim at the conference

Liam wants to hold hands

Ayme & Liam

Liam & Leo

I love this photo. Liam wants to smooch Leo!

Naomi came by for a visit

Practicing his ape walk

 We went to JP's house to visit with the Manning-Pearces and Wilson-Flints

Teal aka Elton John

Coal, Eliot, and Teal

 The Solbergs were also in town from Cordova!

I could hear Peter as we got closer to the park: Higher! Higher! Higher!!

Swans at Westchester

Ann & Maggie

Peter really likes Leo!

Leo brought himself up to sitting position from crawling yesterday for the first time with toppling over. He's army crawling at break neck speed. We have to keep both eyes on him now. He's got rug burn on his knees and calluses on his toes from crawling around so much! But he loves his mobility. He's gets bored quickly with his exersaucer and jumparoo. Need to find some other activities that will keep his attention!