Baseball, swimming, a family wedding, and fun with food...

Fiona's been keeping busy as the spring winds down and summer approaches. First, she partook of America's pastime when UNC faced Dartmouth in the NCAA baseball tournament. Jeff was impressed by the showing for Big Green.

Fiona's next summery adventure was a trip to the pool. She was quiet and warily curious. Yes, it does look like she's sporting mohawk, and we are not responsible, it's nature's doing (we get a lot of comments on her hair...).





Fiona shows off her traveling savvy here: all passengers must retain boarding documents... This time the family fly to Chicago for Dad's cousin Jim's wedding. Fiona got to ride "the L", meet her Great Aunts & Uncles Ann & Todd and Peter & Ann and hang out with Grandma & Grandpa. We discovered that Fiona cries at weddings, but not the silent weeping kind of crying!




At least she looked cute! Plus she had a chance to wear the sweater knit by Great Aunt Ann.






She's been tasting a lot of different foods, and this shows her reaction to a tasting a grape. You can see more photos and a video of grape tasting here.

Airplanes, hiking, and 4 generations in Colorado

Newly outfitted with her very own Southwest Rapid Rewards account, Fiona successfully completed a flight out to Colorado to visit Gramma, Grampa, and Great Nain in Fort Collins. Happily, Charlotte and I also managed to complete the flight without incident, although I might have liked another Diet Coke. This trip brought together four generations of the family, ranging in age from 3 months to 97 years!

During this trip Fiona also seems to have discovered her tongue, and spent much of the time sticking it out and making funny faces. Here is one (of many) representative photos.

Fiona also enjoyed her first trip to the mountains, reaching 10,000 at Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. We're hoping that this is only the beginning of many hiking trips!

Charlotte has uploaded a more extensive collection of photos here.

Easter, more visitors & a trip to the farmer's market...

Well, it looks like Jeff & I will not be frequent bloggers, but here's our latest update. Grandma-Nain's visit wrapped up on Easter & we celebrated with brunch at Parker & Otis. Here is a shot of Fiona from that day:A few days later, Mom's childhood friend Sara came out for a visit from Seattle, allowing Mom to go into work a bit and make her first post-partum visit to the gym...

She met yet another new person: Mom's friend from graduate school, Michele, also out for a visit from Seattle.


She posed semi-willingly for her 2 month old portrait, showing how large she is getting...


Finally, she took her first trip to the farmer's market, graduating to facing out in the Baby Bjorn. She greatly enjoys looking around at everything when out and about.


And here she shows off her support for the Durham Farmer's Market, along with her "full body smile".


You can see more photos here. Next post: Fiona takes her first trip by plane!

Fiona's first spring brings more visitors

First Erin (Charlotte's friend from grad school) & Tara came to visit from Virginia, and although Tara is only 3, she looks like a giant next to Fiona!








Next, Bethany (Charlotte's college roommate) came from Philadelphia. No photos of Bethany yet, as they went back to Nevada with Grammie, but the evidence is Fiona in a Phillies shirt - Mom intends to raise a National League girl!





Then came Grandma & Grandpa Cooney from Colorado and Auntie Kim from Cambridge, MA. Grandpa & Auntie Kim were only able to stay for the weekend, but Grandma stayed until Easter, getting lots of chances to change diapers & soothe a crying Fiona...












Here are some of our favorite recent photos showing Fiona's most endearing skill: smiling! You can see more recent photos posted by Charlotte here and photos from Grandpa Cooney here.

Growing and growing...

Fiona is growing by leaps & bounds: on the 13th she weighed in at 9lbs 9oz, so she now well outweighs Wilbur (who is suitably wary)... She had a chance to meet her "G-Pa", continues getting to know her "Grammie" (Charlotte's parents), and recently "enjoyed" her first bath, which we documented for posterity. We still can't tell what color her hair or eyes are going to be. Her hair is a reddish light brown but seems to be brightening up since she was born. Her eyes are a steel blue, but they seem to be lightening up with time. Jeff posted some more photos here.

Welcome Fiona!

On February 23rd at 8:27 PM, Fiona Boettiger Cooney finished her long journey into the world. She weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces, was 20 3/8 inches long, and was born at 41 weeks and 1 day. We delivered at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill with the midwife service, and everything went wonderfully. Here are some photos from Fiona's first days!

more photos can be found at www.picasaweb.google.com/jcooney/MeetFiona