Creating Cookies

I came home from Boston determined to curtail all baking and thus limit my temptations. However, Katie needed cookies for a museum event about the 1964 earthquake and subsequent tidal wave. She had purchased a wave cookie cutter. I happily volunteered to make the needed cookies. Thankfully they all went to the museum so I could stick to my resolution.

The last day we were in Boston I made this gingerbread boy for Rostam. We had been reading the story and I thought it would be a nice surprise for him to have his own very large gingerbread boy. I had to hand cut the cookie as there was no cutter big enough. Rostam carefully fingered the frosting off his hands and feet and I replaced it all when he went to bed. He also nibbled the right foot. You may notice that the raisin buttons are missing. He replaced and ate those several times during breakfast.

Final Days

Our month with the Pierce family is coming to an end and we will hate to leave this happy household. Here are some recent activities. First photo is Rostam modeling new tattoos that the real estate agent sent to him.

This next photo is similar to one Amy posted on her Facebook page under the title "real men wear babies" Bill is an old hand at this by now and today he wore the baby on a walk to the grocery store.

Rostam loves to make up games relating to books we have just read. Here he is on a picnic with me and he has a lego "pickle".

Tiny baby Alden continues to grow and is now noticing his environment.

He is also doing well at holding up his head and so is being given more "tummy time."

Amy is a beautiful and patient and caring mother. But wait...this is not Alden, this is baby Eva who spent a few hours with us. She is only 3 weeks old.

Everyday Activities

Life continues at a blissful pace here in Boston with most of our days spent watching Alden grow bigger and playing wonderful imagination games with Rostam. Today we tried some close-up shots of mom and baby. There were quite a few good ones. Here are just a couple.


I also got some bathtub photos a few days ago, well many many bathtub photos. It is hard to quit shooting when you have a happy wet baby.

Here Rostam is being a pirate and is pouring me a mug full of rum. He also keeps spilling the rum so must constantly swab the deck with his new broom.

This last one is for Auntie Anne because she is so very fond of baby bottoms.

Being Grandparents

Our newest grandson is now 4 weeks old.

Rostam has become quite adept at dismantling and reassembling his biplane with his "electric" tools.

Photos above and below were taken at an antique store in the town of Plymouth. You can imagine the delight of a two-year old when he got to play in the fire engine.

Visiting in Boston

On January 27 we arrived in Boston on the heels of a snowstorm. We are all snuggled cozily into Amelia and Jason's new home and are enjoying 2 year-old Rostam and his new baby brother Alden Edward.

Little Alden arrived three weeks early which is why we missed his birth. Although he was well over 6 pounds he still seemed small and at three weeks we are all still calling him "Tiny Baby", the name he had when Amelia was still carrying him.

He is pretty small especially when compared to the big hands of his grandfather who is holding him.

In addition to learning to share his mother with a new sibling, Rostam is learning how to manipulate the keypad on the computer.