I will kiss on the lips the inventor of Sudafed

Devin is almost through with his 2-week training in San Francisco. We're kicking ourselves for not sending a camera with him. He is having an amazing time there, walking the crooked streets, eating out every meal, watching football to his heart's content... maybe we'll go back sometime soon. I didn't want to sit at home for two weeks so I went to Pittsburgh to hang out with the Hohls and then to Philadelphia to spend more time with the Cardons. But we had to cut our trip short and this week has been less than stellar. Eva cut her very first tooth last week. That plus a cold gave her a nasty ear infection and fever. I've been attacked by the same stupid cold that I think has since turned into a sinus infection. So I'll spend most of the time Devin is away in San Francisco coaxing Eva into lying in bed with me. The good news is I put on enough of a pathetic show to convince my mom to fly out and nurse me back to health so we get to have a visit from Grandma starting tomorrow.



But first I want to recap my trip last week. Eva and I started in Pittsburgh where our friends live. They have a little girl named Bea that is only 4 days older than Eva. It was so cute to watch them wobbling around together. Eva is a giant compared to Bea which is weird b/c Eva hardly eats a thing and Bea seriously out-ate me at every meal. We tried to get Eva to eat so many different things and the only things she didn't spit out right away were the mini anchovies and pumpkin curry. What a weird little kid. So Amelia is a wonderful cook and always cooking up new and interesting things so we spent our time in the kitchen cooking up amazing dishes. It was a blast. We went downtown to the Strip District to shop for exotic spices and ingredients. (Pittsburgh is beautiful by the way. Very underrated. You should go visit if you can sometime.) We made pumpkin curry, goat cheese puff pizza, pumpkin goat cheese salad, real mint and chocolate homemade ice cream, even gourmet oatmeal for breakfast. Eva loved having a big house and yard to wander around in as well as an older brother, Henry, to look after her. The weather was perfect and we let the babies play in the pool outside. Then the babies took off and tried to climb up the slide. It was pretty comical to watch the two naked butterballs slipping and sliding. We also went to a farmer's market where Eva had her first encounter with goats. All in all we had a great time in Pittsburgh and check my food blog in the future for recipes.





We rode a train over to Hershey where Devin's sister, Sara, met us. I absolutely loved the train ride. We went through a number of quaint little mountain towns in Pennsylvania. It was so beautiful and so much easier to ride than an airplane with a baby. Anyway, in Hershey we visited the Hershey Chocolate museum and ate tons of kisses. The entire town is a Hershey Chocolate exhibit with an amusement park, Hershey school, Hotel, town square... even the street lights are shaped like kisses. It was very cool to see, especially for a chocolate lover like me. The next day I camped out at Sara's house in Philly with a sad but very cuddly baby. It was actually nice to have a day to just sit and hold my little sweetheart that is usually so busy she pops off my lap after a 15-second hug. I decided to head home early so I could take Eva to the doctor and here we are. Anxiously waiting for Grandma and Daddy to get back!