Spring Training

My brother, his wife, and their kiddos are in town from Portland. We were able to spend the day with them yesterday and Merrick got to meet five new family members for the first time. He has started having some stranger anxiety and it took him a few minutes to warm up to the new faces, but once he did we all had a great time. We decided to take advantage of the warm weather and go to a Cubs spring training game.

It was a warm day and Merrick enjoyed sitting in the grass and wearing his hat and his cousin Lauren's sunglasses to block the sun.



Lauren, Julien, and Maude were all so cute with Merrick and wanted to hold him and and make him smile and laugh. It was great to see how he warmed up to them and really seemed to enjoy being with them.




Jeremy also enjoyed his first ever baseball game with his son. I think that is an experience that every new dad looks forward to.



It was a little warm and the kids got a little restless, but all in all it was a great day with the family.