There's nothing like your
internet connection being down for 24+ hours for making you want to write a blog, which is something I haven't done a lot of lately. It's not for lack of excitement or
photographable activities - this week
Pallas had her first real lunch complete with cup of water and crackers in addition to baby food.
Yum, yum, yummy!
See the bit of cracker in her hair? That was probably the cutest place it ended up, after eating we needed a trip to
Wal-Mart to stock up on floor tarps - ah the joys of giving someone with limited motor control crumbly food (which will be placed in the mouth, become gummy and gross and end up back outside the mouth to end up all over the baby, the tray, and basically everywhere). I am so looking forward to watching her eat more solid food *sigh!*
Also, I suppose my time for computer using and blogging has slowed because things have been a little hectic here as I switch over to "mobile baby" mode. I've had to step up my floor cleaning schedule, although you wouldn't know it if you came over because now its not just the living room/play area floor constantly covered in little baby friendly bits (small non choke-ables) they've migrated to all parts of the house - where the wall meets the floor down the hall, next to the entrances of various rooms, etc. and while I make sure they are clean I pretty much leave them scattered as bait to slow her down so she doesn't get too far or in too much trouble when she wanders after us. I don't know why she's in such a hurry to grow up, but it's cute to see her enjoying herself so we try to let her have (supervised) free roaming
privileges as much as possible. Although since she doesn't like to nap for very long I do get a bit paranoid about letting her out of my sight when I have to do something that takes my attention away from her for very long, so we've set up the Pack n' Play -which, as it turns out, is roomy enough for two ( as you can see she's so thrilled about sharing).
- and this by the way, is why you don't let a 7 year
old babysit...
See you later, sucker!
Yes, it's a good thing the
internet is working here again, because I know these are the type of things you just need to hear from us every week -
LOL!
Ok, so the stuff in that first picture wasn't new, but these big sun tarps (screens I guess would be a better term?) over all the play areas are!
Ok, so it doesn't look like they are doing much for sun coverage in this picture, but they are really more for mid-day sun not 6pm sun, and hopefully they will help keep the play structures and slides cool this summer.
In addition to the new sun shades, they completely replaced one of the child playscapes - the new one is all fancy and space themed, although I'm not sure why they would want to replace the old one where hornets and bees would nest in the tube slides and canopy - how will unsuspecting park-goers find out their children have horrible bee sting allergies now?
When we got there we realized why we didn't go there more often - all the play areas are surrounded by seas of mini-pebbles. Pallas was very miffed that she wasn't allowed to inspect the pebbles any closer (a privilege she lost after trying to eat as many pebbles as she could get her hands on).
Mini-pebbles and sandals don't mix.
Tayne found some kids to throw a football around with - you can gauge my faith in his skill level by where Pallas and I are sitting in the grass to watch the action.
Tayne even took Pallas down a few slides. He's such a good big brother, even when he has to wait for a baby and listen to the safety lecture about sliding with babies before going down he actually was willing to slide with her more than once. You can check out his videos of them sliding together over on his blog.
