Sunday, July 31, 2005

Ezamommie

We got back from a short trip to the beast this week. Actually it was one of my longer trips. We were there with Chris, Daisy and Sadie. It was fun, though now as usual, I feel the need for another vacation. Everyone got sick except me (there is a change of pace). So the trip wasn't as good as it could be. It was also ridiculously hot, so we spent most of the time indoors or in the pool. I am beginning to conclude that our next big vacation together should be somewhere in the middle with a nice cheap hotel and swimming pool. Maybe as they get older, there will be more to do.
Sophie is just speaking up a storm now. She is very vocal, and has developed one of the cutest expressions "Ezamommies." It is not entirely clear whether she mean Mommy, or Mommy's or something else, but it is a new favorite. She is also saying Oh Kay! more and more, replacing No NO NO.
Sophie did great in the pool and started to jump in. Well, more of a controlled fall holding our hands, but still, not to bad. Then on the last day of vacation she started trying practice jumps around the condo. Now she will do them pretty much anywhere. They resemble a sort of startled fit more than a jump, but her intentions are clear. It is adorable. And she seems to get the idea of practicing, which is very cool.
She is also super sweet. She has always gone around picking up Will's pacifier or blanket and giving it to him. But over this trip when Sadie was crying, Sophie would either approach and give her pats and hugs, or try to find something interesting to hand to her. It was very sweet.

Will, is crawling around in a sort of wormlike way. He wriggled and rolls in what appears to be a random pattern, but then somehow he ends up at his toys, or something else of interest. So I think he does have some idea what he is doing.
We also gave him his very first "solid" food. This consisted of an ounce of mother's milk mixed with a little dry rice cereal. So it was a pretty thin gruel, but he managed to get some down I think. He looks so tiny in Sophie's old chair (she has graduated to a booster seat). But Carly brought out some old photos and he is bigger than Sophie was when she started. Funny the way the memory works.

1 Comments:

At 10:57 AM, Blogger Jeff Pollet said...

Just for the record, Steve, I love these posts about your kids and their accomplishments.

Kareem, Jessie and I sat around talking about how cute Max is when he does x, y and z the other night. I am officially an old uncle.

 

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