Trip to Atlanta

Since Scott had a long weekend for MLK day, we made a trip up to Atlanta to see Uncle John and Auntie Liz. It just so happened that the Packers were playing in the NFC championship game that weekend, so John and Liz had some friends over to watch the game. During the pregame festivities, Diana, being the curious young girl that she is, reached out to touch that funny looking object Daddy was carrying around. Come to find out, it was cold...hmm. Very interesting. It didn't take long for Diana to have both hands around this cold new object, and of course, since she's almost 5 months, after her hands go on something, it very quickly finds its way into her mouth. Being the wonderful father that he is, Scott immediately hands the beer to Becky and runs for the camera so that he could capture this moment that perhaps only Packer fans could love...a young Packer fan enjoying her first encounter with a good Wisconsin beer.





Of course, not wanting DCFS to come and interrupt the game, picture time quickly ended (or so we thought) when we took the nice cold bottle away from Ms. Diana. She starts attending meetings next week after we captured her reaction in the next two photos.

"Hey now, give that back!"

Diana had another first experience this weekend. Diana met her first new friend her own age, Jack. Jack was born just a few months before Diana, and they got to spend most of the afternoon in the same room together. For a little while before the Packer game started, they actually got a little time to interact. Dad is very pleased to see that his little girl is showing early signs of being confident and assertive. She seemed very comfortable being introduced to a fellow little person...

...almost too comfortable. Ten minutes after meeting this guy, and she's already giving out hugs. Look out!! There go at least 2 more gray hairs for Dad, and she's not even 5 months old yet.

After all the pregame festivities, we finally got down to business. Unfortunately, Miss Diana was not able to stay up for the whole game. Had she been able to, we're sure the outcome would have been different.