Blue coat

Thank you, Auntie Stacey for the blue coat you gave me for Christmas! My Baba loves how sporty it is, and Mama loves how it coordinates with her couch!

Cozy at home

Lots of learning and smiling lead to lots of sleepy time. For all of us!

Rahmi M. Koc Museum

On New Year's weekend, we took a trip to Istanbul to go to the Rahmi M. Koc Museum. Intending to see the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit displaying his machinery, flight experiments, and drawings, we ended up enjoying the rest of the museum more! Rahmi M. Koc collected vintage cars, carriages, engines, ships, computers, and other technological devices. His museum is split into two buildings, with a waterside location on the Golden Horn. We climbed aboard a small display airplane for Topi's first mock plane ride, and I posed in a vintage Turkish streetcar.

Christmas 2006 in Turkey

I know this Christmas post is oh, about 2 weeks late. But we've had a busy couple of weeks, lots of local visitors and two from far away! My brother Matt and his girlfriend Brooke stayed with us in Izmit for over a week and we had a lot of fun together. They helped watch Topi while I made a Christmas dinner of roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, Dad's broccoli and cauliflower bake (minus the Cheez Wiz), and homemade pumpkin pie. In Turkey, you can't buy pumpkin pie in a can, so I roasted the pumpkin and then pureed it myself. Topi wore his Christmas outfit from Judy and managed to snatch an ornament off the tree all by himself! At the end of the night, he was pretty tired, as you can see. Lots of excitement for a 2 month old! I hope everyone had a good Christmas!