Hangin out

Real Spring weather is finally upon us. Yesterday was up around 70, and today's high was around 90 apparently. Tomorrow is supposed to be more of the same.

Mom got to go to the studio to work on a hat while LS had a nap on Friday afternoon. She's been having pretty good naps here and there - not entirely consistently, but nice when they come. Some days she'll take a 2 hour nap, and one day even had two!

Anyway, when LS woke up yesterday afternoon she didn't cry - she just laid there and was apparently practicing here "words". Mostly "Ooo" and "Uuh", maybe an occassional "Agoo". That seems to be the vocabulary, with some different pitch variations thrown in to shake things up.

After 15 minutes or so, we called Mom to come home, and LS and dad went out and sat on the front steps to wait for her to come by.

It was a nice tranquil moment. LS sat on my lap there, taking in the Friday afternoon goings-on of the neighborhood. She watched the neighbor doing some chore or another for a while, no doubt amused that life should be anything other than getting carried around and looked after.

There were nice sounds to point out. A dog barking a few houses over ("O cão!"). Birds flying around ("Podes ouvir o pássaro?"). A bee buzzing around the bushes ("Abelha" - though not like the "abelha" LS has inside with the rattle in its tail!).

At one point LS looked up into the nearby trees, which are just starting to bud and are mostly branches against sky.

Oooo! ...Uuuh!

I agree.

Easter

Well, we had a first this year. The Easter Bunny actually stopped by to visit. We even got it to stay long enough to get some pictures. We really wanted LS to meet the Easter Bunny, but we never managed to get them in the same room at the same time. Strangest thing.

Today a spoon, tomorrow the world

We decided today that we'd give LS a chance to get used to using a spoon by giving her some breast milk at dinner. That might sound fairly awkward. However, the milk was first put into a little cup.

We figured we should capture LS's first experiences with the spoon, so here they are.



To our surprise, three minutes later we got the camera back out so we could capture LS doing very well with the spoon.



We might make some steak out on the grill tomorrow night. So we'll see if there's as much success with a fork and knife.

Five

Do you know where you were 151 days ago? We certainly do.

The picture here was taken two days ago. We're pretty sure that if you haven't fallen in love with LS yet, that this picture will likely push you over the edge.

In the last few days LS has moved on from her open-mouth talking to incorporating a "blowing bubbles" approach, or you might describe it as a raspberry style.

We'll let her do the rest of the talking for this post (filmed earlier today).