Last night, Ari amazed us by putting his pacifier in his own mouth—repeatedly. How’d he learn to that? It really is astonishing how quickly babies grow. A few weeks ago, we were feeding him and he wrapped his hands around the bottle. He’s still not coordinated enough to feed himself, but it’s so exciting as a parent to see your baby take these little steps. Yael’s Mom sent us a touching poem by Anna Quindlen that reminds me to try to savor these times. Some day they’ll be nothing more than a dusty memory. Here's an excerpt:
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McKinley For The Afternoon: April 16, 2005
- Ever the adventure-seekers they are, my parents wanted to take an afternoon off of seeing Ari to go see a little bit of Alaska. My wonderfully generous friend Chris Hodel agreed to take us up for a little flight. We flew about 45 minutes in his 206 up to the Mt. McKinley area, spent 30 minutes flying around, then stopped in Talkeetna for a walk and dinner at the Latitude 62 Restaurant. The flight back to town was only about 35 minutes. We flew a few hundred feet above the river for the first half of it, then climbed into the proper airspace before entering the pattern to land at Merrill Field.
Eddie & Jen's Wedding Weekend, San Francisco
- Eddie & Jen's Wedding Weekend was special in many ways: seeing a dear friend formalize the best decision of his life, bringing Ari to the town where Yael and I met, and most of all, catching up with dear friends.
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August 2005
Ari Meets Congressman Don Young
We took Ari in today to meet our Congressman Don Young, Alaska’s sole house representative. Congressman Young’s public reputation is as the powerful chairman of the house transportation committee that just passed a whopping federal highway bill which includes lots of large Alaska projects. (We congratulated him on his success; he said the key was just persistence.) But as a person, Congressman Young is warm, approachable, and real—not a calculated politician. It’s so refreshing.
Goodbye Governor Hammond
Today, we lost one of Alaska's greatest men, Governor Jay Hammond. He was the finest leader Alaska ever produced that I personally met. He was a man who loved the land and the Alaskan way of life yet recognized the need for development and jobs. Unlike some strident ideologues in power today, Hammond could empathize with both sides of an issue. He was a Republican and a conservationist, someone who always put Alaska's interests first.
