Monday, May 23, 2005

The ocean

Kelton's first trip to the Ocean was over Mother's Day weekend with our friends Cindy and Jon and their baby Evie. Kelton spent his whole time on the beach fast asleep. Maybe he enjoyed the sound of the waves while riding comfortably on dad, who knows? Evie's parents had a chance for some 'extreme parenting' with a very messy diaper change on a log. Kelton saved his for the parking lot.

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We enjoyed a perfect warm sunny day at this gorgeous Big Sur beach. The beach has areas of pink sand designs and the tidepools revealed these green anemones. It turned out the be a wonderful place for Cindy and I to start our book project of images in nature.
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My friend Evie

My friend Evie is only 6 days younger than me and we have lots of fun together. We take music class on Mondays and watch our mommies have lunch on Thursdays. This week we'll be starting baby school together. We went to Big Sur with our folks for our first Mother's Day. Here's Evie with her mom and dad (Cindy and Jon).

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Sunday, May 22, 2005

The aquarium

On Mother's Day the weather was a bit rainy so Cindy, Jon and Evie invited us to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Here we are in front of the kelp forest. David took a picture of me and Kelton outside in the sea breeze.
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The most intriging thing for the babies were the jellyfish exhibits. Both Kelton and Evie were captivated by the moving jellyfish. It's so fun to watch their wide-eyed and open mouthed expressions. I wonder what they thought of the jellyfish and as David said, I wonder what kind of dreams they had that night...

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Hanging with Dad

Dad and I have a lot of fun together. I love to hang out in my carrier when we go places.
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It's also lots of fun to sit on his head.
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Although when I spit up on dad's head neither one of us are quite so happy.
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At the end of an exciting day we sometimes even take a bath together.
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Friday, May 13, 2005

Expressions

I'm always amazed and amused by Kelton's rapidly changing expressions. From sleepy to stretchy from happy to wondering from grumpy to yelling. Here's a sample of his repertoire.

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Friday, May 06, 2005

Lisa and Kelton in the yard

We took a break from unpacking inside the house and went out to enjoy our new yard. The weather has been really pretty and we enjoy the balcony too.
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My quilt

Auntie Dee made a beautiful quilt for me. She's our neighbor in Lake Forest Park. I love my quilt because it's made from soft flannel with a satin border and has a big star pattern with lots of rainbows and tiny stars. Thank you Auntie Dee!

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An afternoon with friends

Suji and Dan came down from San Francisco for an afternoon visit last weekend. Suji and David were roomates freshman year at Cornell. Who would have thought that almost 2 decades later we'd all be living in the Bay Area and still great friends?
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The rattle, a present from Aaron in Seattle, has been a big hit with Kelton. He loves to hold onto it and wave it around. At first I had to mold his fingers around it to show him how to hold the rattle. Now I can just put it near his hand and he'll grasp it.
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Thursday, May 05, 2005

My first hike

Back when I was only 2 months old (I'm 3 months now) I got to go on my first hike. I went to Foothills park in Palo Alto with Su-Lin and Dave.

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Of course Mom and Dad were there too. It was a lovely afternoon in early April and we saw some wildflowers.

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Even though mom and dad and Dave and Su-Lin have backpacked for more than a week together in both the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges the Daves still tried to get us lost in Palo Alto. Here they are consulting the park map.

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I got to ride in my Bjorn all afternoon, which is really comfortable. In fact sometimes I even doze off a bit in there. Mom always makes me wear a hat, but at least it's a cool explorer hat.

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