The Clan McKinnon

  Pondering life as a one month old. Future Olympic Fencing Champion!

In Mommy & Daddy's room, I sleep in the antique cradle that my Mommy slept in when she was a baby! Mommy's paternal grandparents, Edward & Sophie McDonnell, gave the then antique cradle to her parents before she was born.  Over 33 years later, it is getting good use again! 

Next up was a week with my Grandma McKinnon. We had a girl's day out with lunch at the TeaHaus (the location of one of my showers) and then pedicures. Well, I didn't get a pedicure but Mommy says that I will soon enough! Papa Joe came over for a few visits during the week too! Smiling for Grandma!

The family got all bundled up and went for a walk up to Hunt Park. My first outdoor adventure!

After spending the first week at home with just Mommy & Daddy, my grandparents came down from Petoskey to help out for the week while Daddy went back to work.  We celebrated Grandpa's birthday on January 11th  with dinner out at "eve", one of Mommy and Daddy's favorite restaurants in town which was closing at the end of the week.  Grandpa watched me for over an hour while Mommy left me for the first time to go grocery shopping with Grandma. I was nice to him though, I slept the entire time until 5 minutes before Mommy came home!  Everyone is happy!

It took my parents awhile to agree on baby names and they had to choose both a boy and girl names since they decided to be surprised at the birth. At one point in their many discussions, Mommy had suggested Eve. Later on, when discussing middle names which they wanted to use a family name, Daddy suggested Genevieve Gorney after his maternal grandmother. They decided to shorten that name and hence my first name was agreed upon to be Eve! My middle name is after my Mommy's paternal grandmother, Sophia McDonnell. Most people call her Sophie but I will call her GG.   Just chilling with GG. Four generations all together - what a treat!

Mommy's cousin Courtney stopped by. Daddy's Aunt Donna also came over to see me!