From April to June, Stefan visited Happy Hollow (the San Jose zoo), the San Francisco zoo, had a ride on a rowboat in Golden Gate Park, and took a steam train in the Santa Cruz Mountains through the tall redwoods.


April pictures.

May pictures.

June pictures.

January to March were busy months, Stefan went to daycare for the first time and got sick many times... We had quite a bit of rain during this period as well, good news for the agriculture and water users but more difficult for us to enjoy the outdoors.

We visited Alameda and San Francisco's Golden Gate park.

January pictures.

February pictures.

March pictures.

In the last three months of 2009, the weather was still good enough to go frequently to the park. In addition, Stefan visited Stanford University, and we went to the Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo as well.

October pictures.

November pictures.

December pictures.

For his first birthday, Stefan traveled to Switzerland and met aunt Laure, uncle Philippe, his grand-uncle Jean-Louis and grand-aunt Denise for the first time. It was his first flight as well.

We enjoyed gorgeous weather (unusually warm for September), great food and wine, timely trains and grapes from the vineyards in the Lavaux area.

Stefan's grandfather and grandmother spent three days taking care of him while we visited the cities of Basel and Zürich on our own.

Pictures.

This month, Stefan made big improvements in walking, and he was babbling quite a bit. We took him to the library, to a steam train in Berkeley, and to the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose.

Pictures.