Esme Sinclair

With daddy on vacation for a week, we headed off to Seattle, Washington and the Applegate Valley in Oregon to visit the Sinclair clan.

Grandad Sinclair organized a tour de Esme of Ashland and Applegate Oregon, with visits to Greatgrandad and Greatgrandma Sinclair’s house, Aunt Christie and Uncle Doug’s house, and Aunt Karen “the Elder” and Uncle Alan’s house.  We even got to spend a night at the Wooldridge lodge (thanks Aunt Karen!).  Thank you everyone for taking time to visit with us and to show us such hospitality!

Here’s Esme with her Grandad …

and with her Greatgrandad!

Are you counting the number of flights Esme has taken so far?  The correct answer is 8!  We are happy to say that she was wonderful on 7 of the flights, and heartily thank Grandad Sinclair (and the Horizon crew) for their patience on that other one.

Next up, Esme and her mom traveled to Detroit and Chicago for a couple of weeks to spend more time with her Grandpa and Grandma Schouten.

During our visit, Esme met her Greatgrandpa …

and her Greatgrandma …

as well as her uncle Brian …

her aunt Marianne (who gave her a proper introduction to Devo) …

and her “scary” greatuncle Harry …

So much for scary - she was giggling and laughing the whole time!

During our visit, Esme started babbling in long sentences of sounds, trying to add her two cents to the conversation.  She also began standing on her own two legs (with some assistance for balance).  What else?  She can grab onto and hold some of her toys in her little fist all on her own!

Although Esme and her mom were out of town on the day Hallmark designated as Father’s Day, Esme spent some quality time with her father a week earlier.  Aren’t they adorable?

I love you, Dada!

Esme has been keeping her parents busy.  So busy, in fact, that they have not been keeping up with her blog posts.  However, that is about to change.  We look forward to bringing you up to date on Esme’s developments, including our travels and other adventures.

First, back over Memorial Day weekend, we traveled to Dallas, Texas to celebrate the wedding of Andrew’s cousin Michael and Alex.  This was Esme’s first plane ride and her first trip out of the state.  It was a big success!

Esme was very excited to finally meet her Grandad Sinclair and her aunt Katie, as well as many other aunts, uncles and cousins.

We also took a day trip to Fort Worth, where Esme saw a longhorn cattle drive and saddled up to the bar for the first time.

Don’t worry - she ordered milk.