Team Anders

Happy Veteran's Day 2011 (Found this on our walk) Whew what a FUN weekend we just wrapped up...and a calorically intense one as well I must add (me and the Minuteman Trail have a serious date tomorrow). A belated Happy Veteran's Day to all of you readers out there who have or are currently serving this great Nation! Jace is celebrating the holiday the same way he has for the past four or five years... in Las Vegas playing for the Hanscom Eagles at the  Armed Service Hockey Classic . To keep us company for the three-day weekend, Grandma Bon and Grandpa Doug came out to visit Easton and me. This is a long post so I'll hit you with the upfront Cliff's Notes video if you're just swinging by for a second: START THESIS: Mom & Dad arrived on Friday on their usual red-eye/early morn JetBlue flight from Phoenix and were at the apartment by 0730 (they're travel pros now on the Logan Express bus). First order of business was lots of Baby Smallz time for Gran...

Today was Easton's first day of "school" at the Hanscom Child Development Center (CDC). I'm not going back to work for over a month (July 11th) but once his slot opened up we had to accept it (and start paying) or decline, re-apply and head to the bottom of the wait list - no thanks! Since we're paying for it Jace and I figured we'd start slow with a few hours a week so I could have a some time to run some errands, grab a workout and possibly catch up on some much needed sleep. I accomplished the workout, grabbed some lunch and was missing the little homie too much to do anything more so it was back to Hanscom to pick him up. When I arrived he was just a chillin' in his bouncy chair with a big smile on his face. Elizabeth, his afternoon caregiver, said he had been great and was impressed with how content he'd been all day. He drank both his 5oz bottles but unfortunately didn't nap much (not looking forward to this evening!) Anyway, high-five litt...