Uncle Eric and the Maine Wedding

We had a special guest with us this past weekend, Finley's (un-official) Uncle Eric. Eric went to Tufts with Dan and me, but he and Dan have known each other since camp (age 11!). He was the best man in our wedding and is better known as Egon. We picked him up on Friday at the airport and he joined us on our trek north to Maine for a Tufts friend's wedding. Who doesn't love traveling with a baby on tow? The car ride up (and back) had its high and low points, but luckily the high ones were particularly adorable:

The awesome bed head post-car nap:

A happy go lucky Finley who was showing off his flexibility:

In Maine, we checked into our hotel and then headed off to the wedding. Since everyone we know in Maine (basically) was at this wedding, there were no available babysitters so Finley joined us. Lucky for him (and us) this was a very baby/kid friendly wedding (Thank you, Dylan and Tiffany!). It began around 3:30 and there were lots of things to keep little ones occupied.

Okay, this cat wasn't supposed to be for entertainment---but boy was Finley fascinated! Not to mention the fact that he tried to eat the cat's tail! If I hadn't been laughing so hard while Dan prevented this snacking, I would have snapped a picture.

When it was time for the ceremony, we walked down to the lake's edge and posed for some pictures. I took some and Eric took some.

We clean up pretty nice, huh? Finley was under dressed, as usual, but we knew no one would give him a hard time about the dress code (plus there were some people there wearing Crocs...). The ceremony was lovely and the reception was fun, too. After dinner and some speeches, it was time to make our departure. Finley had been so well-behaved, we figured we should leave before our luck turned! As soon as we got in the car and sped off, Finley was fast asleep. Here's what we saw when we opened the car door at the hotel.

It was heartbreaking to have to get him out of this position and into the hotel room, but it had to be done. He woke up, but didn't make a sound. We got him right to sleep and he slept soundly until 6am, at which point he was ready and raring to go! Good thing we planned to leave by 7 :) He entertained all the other early birds in the lobby before we headed back to Boston.

Dan went to practice when we got home and Finley got some extra time with his Uncle Eric. Eric is an experienced uncle of four nieces, so he was more than capable of entertaining Fin.

It was a great weekend with lots of friends. It was awesome to have such a go-with-the-flow baby to take with us!