Caught in the rain
Posted by Fiona on July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
Mara was having an odd sort of morning today. She slept fairly soundly after waking her dad up before 6 am, and got up around 9:10 am with a confused look on her face as if to say, “How did I sleep so long? And where am I?”
She wouldn’t get into her seat for breakfast, but I managed to get her to eat some cereal while sitting on my lap. We also nursed on the couch a bit during a thunderstorm. Yesterday had been very active, with us going to Babytime at the library in the morning and then to the park (wading pool and playground) in the afternoon. But with all the storms forecast for today I thought we’d just stay in.
That didn’t seem like the right plan for Mara today, though. Between rain showers I ended up putting her in the carrier and we walked to the plaza down the street. I hadn’t eaten anything myself yet, so we walked to Starbucks for me to get something. I only had $10 on my since I had left the diaper bag at home and luckily my order came to that exactly (expensive!).
Mara was suddenly in a very good mood, and totally won over the mother and young daughter at another table. I think she wanted to invite them to come home with us!
On our way home, the next rain storm started (thankfully, no thunder this time!). We got absolutely drenched, but Mara seemed quite happy.
Now we’re all dried off and just need some lunch…
Open on Sunday
Posted by Fiona on July 3, 2011 | No Comments
Turns out that our wading pool is also open on the weekend!
We didn’t know this, so when my dad and I took Mara to the park we didn’t have all her swim gear along. She didn’t seem to mind going in wearing her clothes!
After some time paddling around we decided to dry off in the sand…
She’s One
Posted by Fiona on July 2, 2011 | No Comments
It was Mara’s first birthday back in June! So hard to believe. Some parts of the past year have gone by quickly and others fairly slowly. At the moment, James and I are loving all the new developments of the early toddler stage. (I know I might come to be shocked by that statement, so just thought I would record it now so I remember!)
We postponed celebrating Mara’s birthday until the Canada Day weekend. They say not to invite too many children to a first birthday party, but I think Mara was glad that we had 3 other kids there. And here she is with her first piece of cake:
First trip to the wading pool
Posted by Fiona on June 27, 2011 | No Comments
One of the parks nearby has a wading pool that seems to be very popular. It just opened for the summer last week, so I was planning to take Mara today. She totally cooperated with putting on her swimsuit, hat and sunscreen!
But it turned out that the wading pool is only open Tuesday – Friday. So we’ll have to try again later this week. Note to self: disposable swimming diapers are not as absorbent as regular diapers! Must change Mara next time if planning to run errands after leaving the park.
She’s walking!
Posted by Fiona on June 27, 2011 | No Comments
About a week and a half before her first birthday Mara started taking her first independent steps! We were in Prince George, B.C., and she walked towards James (I wasn’t in the room!). James got her to recreate this for me a few moments later. So for about a week she would take 2-3 steps now and then until two days before her birthday when she fully walked 14 steps without stopping. Now she knows she can walk, but it still only seems to happen when she is fairly distracted. The first couple of times were when she had food in her hands and didn’t seem to realize she was walking on her own.
It’s a pretty exciting new skill to have! For the most part, though, Mara seems to still like crawling around in her old manner, just for the sheer speed it allows her.
We have to thank Uncle Harry for the walking tutorial he gave Mara the morning of her first steps. It seemed to do the trick!
(Stay tuned to the end of the video to see some wacky ‘toast-dancing’…)
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