Tea Time, Tours, and Other Fun Mom-tivities

We have a VERY special visitor this week and are loving every second spent with her. Jim's mom is here from New Mexico and it's been awesome! We are sharing our little Cambridge town with her, and she is spoiling us rotten in the process. I'd like to say it's a win-win situation, but I think it's a win-winnerer one instead ;)


We've packed the last few days full of entertainment, and by entertainment I mostly mean eating! Jim and Mom were unfortunately stranded in London for a little while so they got some pasties from the station. Mom remembers eating them before and being less than impressed, but she really liked this one!



Talmage is loving his TLC from Grandma. He loves to give her hugs and laughs at the funny faces she makes in his direction, and he doesn't throw a fit when she shuts the bathroom door (let me tell you, that's huge for this kid!) They're already great friends.

I gotta tell you, in a city that houses some really old buildings, new additions are widely recognized (and photographed) around here. This is the newest clock in Cambridge (it went up a little bit after we arrived), and while I personally think it's pretty creepy, I ALWAYS see crazy crowds surrounding it. I refused to be photographed with it (too scary) but I thought we needed a picture for posterity's sake.

Mom could not have chosen a more beautiful time to visit Cambridge. The cherry trees have blossomed, the grass is green and lush, and the daffodils are in full bloom. This beautiful field of flowers is in Pembroke College.

We ventured a few miles outside of Cambridge to have afternoon tea at a cute little country establishment called "The Orchard." It has entertained the likes of Virgina Woolf, T.S. Elliot and E.M. Forster...but today it entertained the four of us! We had delicious drinks, Jim had a Victorian sponge cake and Mom and I had a fresh-baked scone with jam and clotted cream. It was all delicious.

So, maybe we haven't written any novels (although my dad thinks with a name like T.S. Wigginton our little guy will have a book or two of his own someday), we still tried to act very sophisticated while we drank our tea/hot chocolate.

Check out that pinky action!

Wow, he looks smart.

Oh yeah, pinky power.

And just because we can't get enough of our little guy walking...

...here he is outside The Orchard.

What a sweet little Buddah-belly boy!