I'm trying to eat here!
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From the monthly archives:
April 2010
My friend Wills met us at the Stanford football game. I always have fun seeing Wills, but he does play a little rough…
My friend, Wills, gets a little excited around me - I keep trying to tell him that he needs to play it cool to attract my interest, but I don't think he gets it yet. Ah, boys.
Easy tiger, that's my eye...
Okay, we're playing it rough? Take that tough guy!
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Family Picture - Week 40
Every spring, Stanford plays a spring football game – its basically the last practice before they break for the summer. Usually its down at Stanford, but this year they played it at Kezar Stadium here in San Francisco. It was a beautiful day, so we all donned our Stanford gear and attended the game with some of our friends.
Maile and Mommy - Maile's not very happy with the play on the field...
Maile and Daddy - she did enjoy herself, we swear!
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A long time ago we picked up a baby sign language book. In the early months of dealing with a new baby in the house, we dreamed of the day when she would actually be able to tell us what she wanted or what was wrong. (And there were times when those days seemed VERY far away.)
Over the past couple of months we slowly started introducing some of the baby sign language to Maile. (And when I say “we”, I mostly mean Mommy and Megan – Daddy typically would forget.) The two main words we tried to teach her was “milk” and “please” – after all a girl has to have some manners!
“Please” is basically a clapping of the hands in front of you (I actually <think> this version isn’t proper sign language, its more the Japanese version). “Milk” is squeezing one hand like you are milking a cow.
I’ll be honest and say I didn’t have high hopes – but incredibly, over the past couple of weeks Maile has started to communicate to us with her signs. When she wants milk she will start grasping one hand and as the video below shows she is even starting to “say” please when she wants something…
Pretty cool if you ask me!
(Click here for the video.)
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Last week Maile finally pulled everything together and turned her rolling and sliding into crawling. Its not the prettiest crawl in the world, but it gets the job done!
(Click here for the video.)
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I have a little story to share with you…
Yesterday morning, I'm minding my own business, having a little breakfast ...
... reading a magazine ...
... when all of a sudden I spy a giant sleeping on my play mat!
SNORE! SNORE! He was making so much noise! So I tried to wake him ...
... and he snatched me right up and made a get away!
I thought I was a goner for sure.
But then just when I thought all hope was lost (hence my lack of smile in the picture above) Grandma Jill swooped in from Boston (via Texas) and saved me from the hooded, loud snoring man!
She put me on the swing and we flew high into the sky and then just when I thought we had escaped ...
... the hooded, loud snoring man returned and removed his hood and said "Maile, I am your grandfather" - and it was true!
We all returned home and had a good laugh over our adventures! The end.
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Maile at her first Music Together class
Maile Girl here. Today I turned 9 months old. Mommy and Daddy said they had a surprise for me – we were going to start a new activity on Sunday mornings. The activity turned out to be Music Together – basically it was a big room full of other little kids around my age and all the way up to almost 2 years old (which is really old). They had all these instruments and there was a lady who played the guitar and led all the songs.
Sounds fun, right? I think it will be – but I gotta be honest – adults are strange sometimes. Mommy and daddy went along with the songs and dancing – so I guess its cool (assuming, of course, that my mommy and daddy are cool – and well, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for now). As the video below shows, I’m just not 100% on board with everything. I’m still trying to process it. In the meantime, I’m keeping my Maile Stoic Face in full effect – once I loosen up, maybe I’ll give them a smile…
(Click here for the video.)
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Maile Girl at 9 months and on the move...
Maile turned 9 months old today. Hard to believe she’s been alive and with us on “the outside” as long as she was “baking” inside mommy. As much as she has changed and grown over the past 9 months, I feel like things are just starting to ramp up.
Over the past couple weeks she’s finally started to figure out crawling (we’ll capture a good video soon) and is really starting to explore the world around her (which at this point mainly consist of our living room).
She eats whatever we throw at her (and sometimes throws it right back) – although she hasn’t quite acquired the taste for formula yet complicatingthe weaning process a bit.
Sleep-wise she’s on a pretty consistent schedule that works for the most part although isn’t completely ideal. She goes down really easily at night and sleeps through the night until about 4 AM or so. Chris usually feeds her at that point and then she sleeps through until ~6:30 AM. Ideally we’d like to cut out that early morning feeding, but haven’t had much success yet..
She’s quite the character as I’m sure loyal readers have figured out from the various exploits we’ve documented here – but she definitely has her moods. She’s friendly overall with new people, but sometimes takes a while to really warm up and show that beautiful full face smile of hers. It’s not that she gets upset, but those who are meeting her for the first time often get Maile’s stoic face. She’s a cool cat, you need to keep her interested!
That’s the quick summary – we can’t wait to see what happens next. Below are a few more shots we took today of Maile Girl at 9 months:
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We're too busy enjoying the great SF weather - more blogging next week!
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