Emily attended a baby play-date and was up to quite a few of her monkey antics. She mercilessly chased their tiny dog "Chai" around the house- thankfully for Chai her humongous, padded monkey costume slowed her down a bit. Though at one point it came close in a Chai v. Emily stare-down (see picture of Emily plotting at the corner of the cabinets)- Chai got away every time. Now- take this as a warning, Chai, once Emily is able to walk- there is no telling how this will end next time.
While other babies were content to play in the huge pile of toys laid out for them, Emily had other plans. She managed to man-handle and move a baby gate out of her way so she could go explore the upstairs by way of her favorite activity- climbing stairs (thanks Daddy for teaching her that trick). I was thinking that all the other babies had learned this from their own Olympics-in-training Daddys only to find out after the other babies started trying to climb up behind Emily that NOONE ELSE HAD TAUGHT THEIR CHILDREN THIS! Oops.... we took that as our cue to leave. I carried Emily out, in what she thought of as victory---throwing up her arms in a "touch-down"!
Wahoo! It was chilly outside so we hung out by the fire.
Emily attended a baby play-date and was up to quite a few of her monkey antics. She mercilessly chased their tiny dog "Chai" around the house- thankfully for Chai her humongous, padded monkey costume slowed her down a bit. Though at one point it came close in a Chai v. Emily stare-down (see picture of Emily plotting at the corner of the cabinets)- Chai got away every time. Now- take this as a warning, Chai, once Emily is able to walk- there is no telling how this will end next time.
For every season there is a book that truly captures the essence of high literary prose matched with the spirit of that time of year- for Emily's first Halloween I felt "Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin" to be the perfect literary companion. We laughed, we cried, we cheered as Duck and Goose found the most spectacular pumpkin ever at the local pumpkin patch. Then we dressed up in our tutu and danced around in pure joy.
We decided it was a good idea to bring the WHOLE family on this date "night". Date night has become a very loose term since 6:00 is the witching hour for Mommy and baby both....Emily enjoyed taking her fair share of my wildberry frozen yogurt- Daddy was smart enough to sit across from her and "watch Taylor". The weather was perfect and Taylor got to eat things off the ground that were a slight step up from the usual Pigtown cuisine of chicken bones and.....other things.....instead he was dining on Stuggy's hot-dog rolls and whip cream that dripped off Andy's pumpkin fro-yo. The Hlavka's <3 Fell's Point!
