Puerto Rico (!!!)
We just got back from a trip to Puerto Rico—where we stayed at El San Juan Hotel & Casino—for a Dow Jones Integrated Solutions/Dow Jones Online sales meeting. Since dad works at DJIS and mom works at DJO (when she’s back from maternity leave) and both were in attendance at the meeting, Colin tagged along. The meetings went very well, but we only took pictures of the “fun” stuff…
The main thing we did, of course, was go to the pool. Colin hadn’t ever been in a pool (or anywhere it was warm outside for that matter!), so it was quite an experience for him. I think he liked it, but mom and dad did push it a little by dunking him in the water as you can see in this video:
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Mommy didn’t end up spending that much time in the water so it was mostly daddy and Colin. We had lots of fun—but it was too bad it wasn’t a heated pool. I think Colin got cold before he got sick of being in the water. Afterwards, we chilled out (heated up?) in a towel and then sat around contemplating what we thought of the whole experience. I don’t know why, but I just love that last picture of him.
Colin also got to meet some of the folks that mommy (Penny from London) and daddy (Andrea from NYC) work with. He was a huge hit at the sales meeting with everyone from the publisher of The Wall Street Journal to randoms at the resort commenting on his size (huge!), his smile (so cute!), his demeanor (happy!), etc…. We did decide that our theory about people who know daddy thinking he looks like me and people who know mommy thinking he looks like Deb is no longer valid. Now we just think people say whatever pops into their head, because we had people saying all kinds of things about who he looked like—besides, he just looks like a baby. 
I can’t decide which is my favorite picture. The top one is wonderful, but the rest are pretty sweet as well.
Are those overalls striped? Very stylish. I love overalls on little boys. We had to stop getting overalls for the boys when they hit potty-training age. Hard enough getting pants down, let alone undoing all those straps.
So – I started buying them for myself instead! I love wearing overalls, too….
Those stylish overalls are from Gramma Reed.
Smart about no overalls and potty training!