Archive for June, 2007
Ithaca is Gorges!
Here’s some photos from our trip to Ithaca, NY to see Uncle David graduate from the Finger Lakes School of Massage. More pictures here.
Here he is in the commencement processional:
Family pics:
Next time we travel anywhere more than a couple of hours away, I think we’ll do the driving at night while Natalie sleeps. She was a trooper, but now that she’s almost crawling, she really doesn’t like being strapped in the car. Natalie wants to be on the move! She napped some of the time, but the rest of the time it was challenging to keep her entertained and not crying. We sang songs, presented new toys, played peek-a-boo, and resorted to using sugar!
Natalie’s New-Found Entertainment
Here’s a couple of still shots of her blowing raspberries…we can add these to her catalogue of much blogged-about funny faces!
Solid Food
Since Natalie’s first taste of banana on April 30, she’s enjoyed a variety of solid foods:
oatmeal
pear
mango
nectarine
watermelon
pickles
avocado
Here’s an early video of her eating oatmeal—since then she’s gotten much neater! Last night she ate avocado for the first time (she LOVED it) and hardly any of it got on her face.
Would you have believed us?
We’ve been trying to get this on film for about a week…
Without seeing for yourself in the following video, would you have believed Natalie was doing this if we told you?
Kiddie Pool!
I decided to buy Natalie her very own kiddie pool after she had such a good time in Clara’s pool. Babies R Us had two choices: a $5 small, hard plastic pool or a $19.99 large, semi-inflatable pool that springs open and closed (kind of like those circular sun shades for your windshield). Since I didn’t know how I was going to transport or store the hard plastic one, I opted for the “fancier” one.
Next I bought Natalie a bathing suit. It disgusts me how bathing suits for babies are sexualized. Many of the suits, even the one-peice ones, are cut in such a way as to suggest cleavage! And don’t even get me started on the bikinis…it’s ridiculous, especially since the suit has to fit over a big diaper. It was a challenge to find a suit that was appropriate for a baby and didn’t include a huge advertisement for a TV character on it, but I finally found a yellow one with a nice blue fish on it:
As you can see, the “fancier” kiddy pool turned out the be a little silly, because in order for the sides to stay up, it needs to be filled with A LOT of water. Too much for Natalie, who’s happy with an inch or two. But if we want, at least we have the option of getting in the pool with her. Natalie did plenty of splashing, even in a couple inches of water, and didn’t notice a bit that the sides were collapsed:
It just made it easier for her to get to the grass:
What fun! Here she is drying off after her “swim”:
