Settling In

This is Evelyn Virginia DiNovi-McDonald. She arrived a week ago today after 13 hours of a natural labor. The experience was just as we hoped (little intervention from the hospital) and Beatty was a fantastic coach, I couldn't have done it without him. We arrived back home on Sunday and we've spent this week trying to figure out what we're doing! So far we're hanging in there; she is truly amazing.

We're thinking that her nickname will be Evie (with a long e, like her initials E then V) but we'll see, that's one of those things that will evolve. Evelyn was Beatty's grandmothers name (Mom's side) and Virginia is my Mom's name (and my middle name). Since I have the best husband ever, we've decided to hyphenate the last name to allow the DiNovi name to continue.

Uncle Brian flew in from Boston with his girlfriend Danielle this week to meet Evelyn. We had a great time seeing them both.

Here are some more images of the baby. We hope this finds you well!

It's a girl!

Evelyn Virginia was born today at 2:42pm. This is her first moment. An amazing experience. It was truly beyond my wildest expectations. In the words of Mark Linkous "your first burning breath, was a symphony." More to come...

We're In!

We've officially moved into our new home and love it! We've been in for about a week and now we're just waiting on the baby! Our due date is in less than a week so any day now ...

Our new address:
525 Literary Road
Cleveland, OH 44113

Thank You for such an Amazing Baby Shower!!

I wanted to thank the Zampelli family for hosting such a memorable baby shower for us. It was an unbelievable day with amazing women, gifts, food and dessert! Everything was perfect and we're so grateful for their hospitality and generosity. Thanks Rosie, Steph and Kate!!!

We also wanted to thank everyone else for their generosity and for sharing such a great day with us!

And finally to the Chiang-Johnsen family for flying all the way out here from Boston!

Our New Place ... Hopefully

We're on the FINAL COUNTDOWN - we've just been approved for the loan on the new house, next we'll need to close, move, unpack (at the least set up the babies room) and then finally have this baby!! Now, if only we can guarantee this order ...

Our new mantra - if we're going to go through a life change, we might as well change EVERYTHING!!

The new place is located in the Tremont area of Cleveland. Once we close, I'll post our new address and info. Keep your fingers crossed!

Back Home

Hi!
We've been in Cleveland for a little over a week now and Beatty has already started his new job and we're under agreement on a new house!. The house is located in Tremont - a trendy area about a mile from downtown - with great restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques and galleries. We'll have plenty of room for guests (guest bedroom and full bath) so we hope to see you out here soon! The airfares are pretty cheap from Boston!! (Continental into Cleveland or AirTran into Akron). Once we close on the house I'll post some images.

Best,
Leslie and Beatty

Girls FYI - the waist line has grown another +1" since the shower!! I'm now at 41"!!

Goodbye Boston!

Thanks everyone for coming to our goodbye bash!

And thank you ladies so much coming to the shower and for all the thoughtful baby gifts! Special thanks to Cathy, Lana and Diana for hosting such a great shower!

Beatty, the dogs and I are leaving town on Tuesday the 28th. We're best reached via email ldinovi@hotmail.com or beattymcdonald@hotmail.com or by cell.

We will miss you all!






I'm so done ...

We're Moving!

The baby and I have just reached our 7 Month mark so here is a recent pic taken from our friend Sarah. She came up to Boston from NYC with her boyfriend Adam and was snowed in until Monday!

On the home front - our house finally sold last week and we're heading back to Cleveland at the end of this month (less than 2 weeks)! Until we have a new address, we can be reached through this blog or our emails.

Stay in touch!

Greetings!

Hello Everyone!

As most of you know, Beatty and I have been trying to get out of Boston for over a year now. We are hoping that this will happen sooner than later and thought that in the meantime, this would be a good way to establish a home base with everyone.

We're hoping that you'll all check into the website every once in a while. We will try and keep it up to-date, so that we can stay in touch.

The baby is due on April 20th so here is a recent pic of the bump!

We hope this finds you well.

Best, Leslie and Beatty