King's Canyon

6-24-01: Sunday, Uncle Judd, Mommy and Daddy broke off from Aunt Tracy, Uncle Nick, Chris Rucker, and Lisa Ohashi from the King's Canyon camping trip and toured Sequoia National Park for the day. Monday, Miracle came home from the vet hospital and Jessica and Mommy were at the vet for 4.5 hours that day with Jerry and Miracle. Tuesday, Jessica had Ed de Maar over for Tuesday club and his Dad, Dr. de Maar was visiting too. Mommy made chicken matzo ball soup from the chicken that Uncle Nick made on the camping trip and had Sue Marston, Aunt Tracy, Uncle Nick, the de Maars over for a soup dinner. Friday, Mommy and Chris Rucker went to the OzzFest concert and Jessica stayed home with Daddy. Not only did she drink her breastmilk from a bottle for Daddy, but she held her own bottle! What a big girl! Jessica found her toes this week and likes to touch them when laying on her back. She has even managed to get them into her mouth once or twice. She can fully push her torso off the bed or floor when on her stomach.

Happy Birthday Daddy and Uncle Matthew and hello 1st cousins once removed

6-17-01: Jessica had a great week. She started the week with Father's Day/Daddy's birthday/Uncle Matt Albright's birthday celebration at Duncan. Monday night, Jessica had Uncle Matt, Aunt Erin, and Pauline Yu over to dinner. Mommy cooked out of the cookbook she received from them as a present for the holidays. After dinner, the entire Baggott clan and Jessica's first cousins once removed (Ratner clan) came over for dessert - Molly and Dorothy McNamara, George and Nick Dietz, and George's girlfriend Jamie. It was the first time that Jessica had met all of these cousins except for Nick Dietz, whom she met in Chicago. They were visiting San Francisco on their cross country train trip. We celebrated George's birthday for a second night with another special dessert. Tuesday, Jessica joined Mommy and Daddy and all of Daddy's friends out at Buca di Beppo in San Francisco for another birthday celebration. She slept through most of the meal. Over the weekend, Jessica went on her first camping trip and her first 9+ mile hike in King's Canyon and Sequoia National Parks - what a star! She slept very well in the tent between Mommy and Daddy in their new zip together sleeping bags and was mesmerized by the campfire. Jessica sat up by herself for the first time at Aunt Kate's house on Tuesday and also started reaching for Mommy from Uncle Dan's and Daddy's arms.

George's 1st Father's Day

6-10-01: Sunday, Jessica, Mommy, Daddy and Uncle Dan went out to Pt. Reyes for breakfast and a long hike. Monday, Jessica met her second cousin once removed (Rosenthal clan) Rochelle Estrella and her boyfriend Bryan for lunch. Jessica and Mommy spent a great deal of time this week seeing our sick cat, Miracle, at the vet's office. She is the star of the office and her arrivals are greatly anticipated and met with much attention. Jessica also met Nadine Granier and Char Levitt over dinner at Duncan on Tuesday. Thursday, Jessica went with Mommy to the dentist's office for Mommy's teeth cleaning. She sat in her car seat next to Mommy the whole time and was perfectly content. Jessica met Vivek and Farzaneh Rau over dinner at Duncan on Friday night. Saturday, Jessica took Daddy to the South Bay with Uncle Nick, Aunt Tracy and Uncle Dan to get "skins" for Unreal Tournament computer game. Now, Daddy, Uncle Dan and Uncle Nick can play the game with Jessica and their own faces on characters within the game. That was Jessica's Father's Day gift for Daddy. She also took Daddy et al on a hike and out for lunch and dinner all in the South Bay. Jessica's new trick this week was crossing her eyes!

Visiting Little Rock with Jessica

6-3-01: Jessica started the week by finishing up her visit in Little Rock. She visited Pop Pop's office for lunch on Monday and left Little Rock on Tuesday for a two leg plane trip. She weathered both legs beautifully with a little fussiness in the airport in between flights. The first leg was a very short flight (less than an hour) with the second leg clocking in at three hours. She slept during most of the second flight, but was awake for most of the first. She was excited to be home and to see Daddy upon arrival. Jessica had a difficult time getting back to her "before trip normal" schedule. Wednesday she spent a little time with the Marstons after we picked them up from the airport from their Italian vacation. Saturday she ended the week with a dinner party at Duncan with Liz, Ben and Nicholas Treynor.