Reenigne blog

Alex with his Nana, wearing the sweater and hat that she made for him.

Alex with his auntie Kitty

Alexander Andrew Jenner was born on 28th November 2006 at 9:24am PST, weighing 9 pounds 7.8 ounces. Both mother and baby are doing very well.

Gennie's mother with her first grandchild.

First passport photo

I recorded some video footage here (9.6Mb - may require QuickTime to view).

Updated 20th January 2007 with some more pictures and movies:

Giggling (movie - 9.6Mb)

Sneezing (movie - 1.3Mb)

Updated 4th February 2007:

Updated 17th February 2007:

Giggling II (movie - 9.8Mb)

New York, 17th August

Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marblehead, Massachusetts, 19th August

Boston, 21st August

We went to the museum of fine art, but it caught fire.

The spire of the old North church.

Boston public garden, 22nd August

Make way for ducklings!

Chicago, 23rd-28th August

The Museum of Science and Industry, the only in-place surviving building from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Some of the streets around the University of Chicago are lit by old fashioned gas powered lamps! They were the real deal, you could feel the heat coming off them.

The Roosevelt Metra light railway station is very rickety and looks ancient.

Cakes in the display window of Bombon Americano.

The Art Institute of Chicago.

Millennium Park, Chicago.

A Monkey at Lincoln Park Zoo.

Views from the observation deck of the John Hancock tower.

Puppet Bike.

11th April 2006 - first ultrasound

The head is between the big + and . and the blob at the other side of the little + is the yolk sac. We also saw the baby's heart beating on the monitor which was quite something!

3rd July 2006 - second ultrasound

Washington Park Arboretum, Spring

Vashon island, July

Mugs

Winter/Spring 2006

Italian Variation on the Strudel

Foccacia

Gennie makes Escargot for the first time for Andrew's birthday

Self-explanatory

Roasted pork braised with cider vinegar and stuffed with apples, raisins and walnuts

Shepherd's pie

Summer 2006

Cincinnati Chili

Sponge cake with jam

Moroccan lamb stew

Salmon

A classic dish from the Liguria region of Italy - linguini with homemade pesto and chicken, a salad of tomatos and anchovies, and foccacia.

White nectarine galette

Beef and salad

Oysters

Andrew's birthday dinner

Various walks in the arboretum, autumn 2005

Christmas decorations

A fairy that Gennie made

Gennie's birthday party - 31st December 2005

Rebecca

I'm just sayin'...

Meighan poses for the camera

Sometime after midnight

Strange soap creature I found in the shower.

11th to 15th October - The Cinque Terra

The kitchen of the apartment we stayed at in Manarola

View from our apartment

We were staying at the very top of the orange house

The vineyards of Manarola. People have been farming these terraces for 1,000 years

Manarola has some incredible deep-water swimming

The Via Dell'Amore, between Manarola and Riomaggiore

The beach at Monterosso

Part of the path between Manarola and Corniglia

The footpath zig-zags up nearly 400 steps to the town of Corniglia

A cat that convinced Gennie to feed part of her lunch to him

View from the hike between Monterosso and Vernazza

Vernazza from the hiking path

Some of the many cats that decorate the Cinque Terra

16th October - Seattle

On our return to Seattle, we found (amongst other things) this message on the whiteboard...

...and this fun present from Beth and JT.

7th to 11th October - Florence

The ceiling of the Baptistry

The Duomo

Giotto's tower

The top of the Duomo

Garden terrace outside our window

The Arno river

Pisa

1st October - The Old Consulate Inn, Port Townsend

3rd to 4th October - Milan

Milan's Duomo is the fourth largest Cathedral in Europe

Vittorio Emanuele Arcade

4th to 7th October - Venice

San Marco square

Murano

The Bridge of Sighs

The Ducal palace

Gennie eating the best Gelato in Venice - at 10am!