We have had alot of fun this weekend! Sean and I were able to have a semi-date night on Friday...we tried out a new restaurant for dinner and Alessa was an angel. :) Yesterday, we started off the day by heading to the Mill City Farmer’s Market in downtown Minneapolis, then went to meet Alessa’s newest friend, baby Andrew, then visited the zoo for the first time, and ended the night by giving Alessa her first real food!
Alessa loved the zoo! She is always so observant and you can tell she’s just processing and learning all the time! She especially loved the little spider monkeys because they were jumping all over the place and easy for her eyes to track. And Sean kept telling Alessa we were there to see her cousins, the monkeys, because we call her a little monkey all the time. We also got to see a tiger, a few lions, a gorilla, and two big polar bears! We have had such crappy weather here so far this summer, but luckily the cruddy weather cleared up a bit so we could enjoy the zoo.
Little Andrew is the newest addition to the Hester family (our friends Mattea and Matt). I had the privilege of meeting the little guy just a few hours after he was born, but this was Sean and Alessa’s first time seeing him. He is so cute and looks just like his mama! Sean and I just couldn’t get over how small he looked in comparison to Alessa. Although Andrew and Alessa were only 2oz. apart in their birth weights, we don’t ever remember her being that small!! Time goes by so fast!
Given how Alessa has taken to rice cereal the past month or so (that rice cereal really is pretty nasty), we were expecting her to not be so keen on eating vegetables…but, we were sorely mistaken!! She LOVED the sweet peas (which my mom tells me were one of my favorites as a baby as well)! Everytime I would put the spoon in front of her to give her more, she would open up wide and eat the whole bite. We were shocked! And she equally loved holding her own spoon (a trick I learned in one of my Parenting magazines). We got pretty messy, but captured some great pics.
And today we met some friends (my friend from grad school, Cale, and his wife, Kelly) and their little boy, Adam, at Minnehaha Park. We sat outside, ate some yummy fish tacos at Sea Salt Eatery and enjoyed a walk in the park (especially the spectacular waterfall - my favorite!) And we got more than we bargained for today as the Park had a Swedish festival happening, too! Adam and Alessa are only two days apart. It was so cute to see them seize eachother up!
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