Visit from Pop-pop and Nani

Zeke asked Pop-pop to read him a few Mother Goose rhymes before bed tonight.

Overheard: a one-person, two-shoe dialogue

While we were in the car, driving to daycare, this morning, I overheard something along these lines from the back seat:

Ordinary Zeke voice: Hello, I am a shoe.
High-pitched, squeaky Zeke voice: Hello, I am a shoe, too.
Ordinary voice: Hello, shoe, we are friends. Let's dance!

He proceeded to wiggle his feet.

Recent photos of Talia

She's started eating some cereal. It's messy as hell.

Visit to the American Helicopter Museum, May 19, 2007

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New game

Talia in walker, uploaded 9th May, 2007.

She likes this. She has also been trying some very thin, diluted rice cereal with breastmilk, which she seems to like but still has trouble figuring out what to do with.

This is Patrick

As of yesterday, Zeke has a new friend, Patrick, the baby elephant. He's the baby and Zeke's the mommy. He laid Patrick out on a blanket on the floor of his room, lay down next to him, held him close, and sang him a lullaby ("Hush-a-bye, don't you cry"). Then, he picked him up and inserted Patrick's trunk into his (Zeke's) belly-button and explained that Patrick was drinking milk. The name, "Patrick," was Zeke's idea.

The nice man gave me a lollipop

    

This is behavior we probably shouldn't be encouraging. The lollipop was a present from the mailman, who is pretty nice.

Poison ivy remedies

  
Last night was a good night.

Update

Talia is doing a lot of sitting up, and she seems to enjoy it. Here's a little video (though it's kind of hard to see much). She was showing tremendous abdominal strength. She'd sit, then pitch forward onto her face, then just lift herself up back into a straight-up sitting position without using her arms. I couldn't believe it.



Zeke got poison ivy at the Envirofest on Sunday. He spent most of last night awake, frantically clawing at himself, and screaming. It was miserable for everybody, except Talia, who somehow managed to be oblivious and sleep through the whole thing. He seems better tonight, so far at least, knock on wood. It really sucked.

A little set from today.
  


She admired herself seated before a mirror. Then fell. Click for larger versions.
  




Just for cuteness' sake (Heather took this one):

Taken at this year's Pottstown, PA Envirofest, which was Saturday and included a petting zoo.



Zeke, Talia and Heather sitting on the floor.
  

Video diary #2: Talia sits up (take two)

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A quick update on what Talia's been doing lately. It's kind of quiet so you may want to turn up your volume. Also, the video seems to skip, and the video and audio aren't quite in sync. Scheißtechnik, as they say in Germany. The gist is: Talia has been sitting up, smiling all the time, grabbing at things, and even turning herself over. And she smiles a lot in this video, which I think is about three minutes long.

Talia and me

Something surprised her in her carseat.


And a few of Talia and me:






I actually took all of these, believe it or not.

Watching ants

  

Uh oh

Zeke had to sit on the naughty bench at daycare yesterday.