Tor's Family Bonanza

On July 8, Tor boarded his first flight ever as he and I headed to California for Christina's bridal shower. I now know for sure that God sympathizes with solo-baby-wrangling mothers, because the seat next to us was empty on the way there, and we got bumped up to first class on the way back. Tor was a trouper on both flights, nursing on takeoff and landing to prevent ear pressure, playing with the seat belt for a good half-hour, taking a nap in the sling, and offering up a wet, but not dirty, diaper. Stylish.

The weekend was absolutely packed with family time: Christina's shower on Saturday, a pizza party afterward, a visit from Grandma Charmaine and Grandpa Chooch on Sunday, and Chinese food with the Karpluses Sunday night. This made for a lot of good pictures.

Interrupting the bride's beauty rest 

Grandson trumps coffee! (Mom, I'm sure you're thrilled I'm putting this out there.)

"This is not the Tor you're looking for"

First encounter with Mormor...

...and the first four-generation photo

Shaking hands with Morfar

Seems he'd already gotten to Laura's name tag by this point

"Consider yourself a Karplus, kid"

The center of attention--and loving it

Norm and Charmaine hadn't seen the munchkin since January 10--at just two weeks old--so we were all thrilled that they could make it over to Orinda for the day!

It was a good thing Grandpa Chooch remembered his croakies

The best attempt I've seen so far to make this hat look cool

Below, Grandma Charmaine gets some good lovin' in at the Karplus house and then at the Andersens'.

                                       

To wrap it up, here's my Grandma with the Torito, and another four-generation shot. Thanks for hosting us, Grandma!

I give Grandma mad props for having SEVEN of these