Dear Grace and William,

You met your California relatives -- great grandmas, great grandpa, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, not to mention Mommy and Dada's friends.  They loved seeing you -- and you both were shy.  In Salinas, we visited Dada's grandma, parents, siblings and spouses, and their children (your cousins).  We stayed at Grandpa Kent and Jan's house, where you slept in rented port-a-cribs.  After a few days we drove to Mommy's mom's house in Fresno, where you met your great grandfather, great grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins.  You slept in pack-n-plays in Fresno.

We walked Pebble Beach in Carmel, ran in the park across the street from Mommy's mom's house, ate Mexican and Middle Eastern food, and you climbed everything.  William, you fell off the couch, landing mostly on your head.

And ... a nasty virus found us.  Grace, you started with the throwing up early Wednesday morning and then it went away fairly quickly.  William, you began getting sick Friday morning 4am.  You really concerned us because of your fall off the couch and worry about head trauma.  Because you kept throwing up, we took you to Valley Children's Hospital for an examination and a CT scan. The scan came back negative and around 10am, you stopped throwing up.  

We went about the day -- playing, driving back to Salinas, etc.  Grace, you then threw up a few times and stopped again.  We boarded the plane to come home. The ride back was very different ... poor William, you began throwing up about an hour into the flight and kept throwing up for at least two hours.  Dada was holding and cleaning up after you.  The people in the row behind were really rude to Dada and you, William.  
 
Ahh, we landed in Maine at the end of the week!  Good to be home? Momy ran a bath for Dada -- but he was so tired that he fell back to sleep -- and the water... through the cealing into the kitchen and down to the basement. Ops. Not to worry, Richard the contractor will fix it for us as soon as everything dries out.

Love,

Dada and Mommy

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