Meeting Baby Jane

Our friends Rachel and Kelly relocated for a few years to the south of France, where they live in a region most people just dream of visiting, near pebbled beaches and generally navigate the expat life and francophone culture. For our part, we just miss them. They are fun, interesting, wonderful people and we love the time we get to spend with their family. This year the weather conspired to keep us apart, grounding them in Nice so we missed them on the front end of our trip. But we were not to be thwarted! So on our way back from North Carolina, we stayed overnight with them in Evanston and got to spend some time. We got to see Alex, their preschooler, who has a mutual love affair with Terry. Every time someone came down the stairs in the morning he would run over with a look of pure joy on his face and shout "Terry!" and then his face would sort of fall and he'd mumble something suspiciously like "oh you" and then go back to the living room. Terry was the last one down in the morning, so I got to see this drama repeated several times.

We also got to introduce Liam to baby Jane, Rachel and Kelly's new daughter who arrived in June and so is only 5 months younger than Liam.


The kids somehow agreed that in a house full of toys, the iron planter was the most exciting thing