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!
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…
Maile has taken quite an interest in anything electronic and breakable – particularly our iPhones. Daddy decided to “sacrifice” and picked up an iPad so that Maile could have more time with the smaller version…
With all this talk about Hot Tub Time Machines, we decided it was time to upgrade Maile from her baby tub to the regular, big girl tub. The baby tub served us well – we basically used it almost every night starting about a month after Maile was born. But as the video below shows – Maile is really loving all the new space she has to explore:
NOTE: I’m also going to file this post under “posts-Maile-will be-super-embarrassed-by-in-about-12-years”… sorry Maile Girl!
Sunday was a busy day – one official holiday (Easter) and one unofficial holiday (baseball opening day). Both firsts for Maile girl so she wanted to make sure she was putting her best foot forward. What’s a girl to do outfit-wise? That’s easy – she just did a few costume changes throughout the day…
Maile started out in her Easter gear…
Happy Easter! Check out all the fun Easter presents that Maile's nanny, Megan, gave her!
Daddy thinks this jacket and hat make it look like Maile is celebrating Easter in Moscow...
And then in the afternoon, we transitioned to Red Sox gear to prepare for the Red Sox/Yankees game…
Daddy and Maile are very excited for the start of baseball season!
The weather was finally nice on Wednesday. Daddy and I took full advantage and hit the streets in the afternoon. Our hotel is up near Times Square, so Daddy figured we’d act like tourists and check out the sites. He told me that true New Yorkers (e.g., the ones that live here) don’t venture into Times Square all that often. I can understand why – it was really crowded! I was pretty impressed with the way Daddy maneuvered my stroller through the crowd – watch out here comes Maile Girl!
(P.S. I’ll be honest, I was a little tired during this particular adventure – so let’s just pretend I’m smiling in most of these pictures, cool? Gracias.)
Daddy bought me a little present for being such a good girl and to remember my first trip to NYC.
Then we hit Times Square - it was crazy how many people were there. I'll have to admit, even I, Ms. Curious, was a bit overwhelmed!
Yes, my daddy is a cheeseball - we took a picture at the NYPD stand in the middle of Times Square...
Hey Daddy, are you enjoying yourself? Are we almost done here?
Seriously. Enough. Pictures.
Daddy took me to Gray's Papaya for a true New York snack. Gotta say it looked delicious!
And I'm done. Boy, New York City sure is exhausting!
(Dad’s note: Re: Gray’s Papaya. The Recession Special – two hot dogs and a papaya drink – used to be my go to. Great deal for $3.50. Turns out they jacked the price while I was gone – $4.50 now! Nothing’s sacred.)
Daddy and I aren't going to let a little rain (or a lot in this case) hold us down...
The weather has been truly awful the past couple of days. Rainy, windy, basically lots of yuck. I think its just so I don’t get too excited about New York and am happy again when we return to San Francisco.
(Dad note: Rumor has it that tomorrow (our last day in NYC) might actually be nicer. I hope so – I had big plans to take Maile to Central Park and maybe even the zoo, but the weather has really hampered our adventures. As you can tell by the abundance of blog posts, we’re doing our best.
I will say this – I’ve been traveling around a lot with Maile in the Baby Bjorn and she makes friends where ever she goes – even on the subway! And let’s be honest, who makes friends on the subway? Random people smile and wave at her. She waves back. It’s a riot. NYC would be a friendlier city if they had random people riding the subways with babies strapped on them.)
So when I was at Maggie’s house all she kept talking about were these “choo choo trains” – she had never actually been on one, but she had seen them coming through her town. They sounded pretty cool to me, so imagine my excitement when Mommy and Daddy told me that we’d be traveling from New Jersey to New York City on a … choo choo train!
Mommy and I getting settled on the choo choo train - much different from the air plane, a lot more room to stretch your legs (not that its really a problem for me...)
What's really neat about the choo choo is that the windows are really big and there is so much to see (even in New Jersey!)
And as a bonus, after the choo choo train, we got on another type of train called the “subway”…
Dad note: I think Maile is saying "hey, enough with the planes, trains and automobiles, let's get to NYC already!"
Continuing the musical theme that we started the week with, I rocked out tonight with my new favorite instrument – the Maile guitar. I <think> she mostly liked it 🙂
