Today is cold, upper thirties, and very dark grey. I put Samantha's heavy snow suit on her and off we go. Ella is just thrilled to be out, and I have to agree with her. We went around the reservoir and had a very nice walk. The leaves are all down, and there are lots of streams and puddles that have never been there before. The rushing water made me realize what a dry spring we had. Samantha seemed to adjust well to the backpack, and I walked just fine, meaning my hip stayed in its socket. I do wish I had the walking stick, but I couldn't find it in the car when we got to the park. We went on a new loop that was very pretty. The woods are very dramatic in the late fall, with the bare trunks and dark branches outlined in the gray sky. What leaves are left are very bright yellow and really stand out. Everything is very crisp and stark. It is beautiful.
I gave her a nice warm bottle of formula when we got home and put her to bed. She yelled for about twenty minutes and finally went to sleep.
She is very interested in teeth right now, which is a bit painful. She is also back to using her pacifier. She will crawl across the room to get hers off the bouncy thing. She stuffs it in her own mouth and is quite adept at turning it around so the rubber part is in her mouth.
Yesterday the two of them cracked me up. I was eating lunch and Samantha crawled over to my chair, hauled herself upright on the arm of the chair and stood there staring at me with her mouth opening and closing. Ella seemed to sense that there was food in the offing, so she came and sat right behind Sam. The look on their faces was identical. "Feed me" So I gave a piece of pita to Sam, waited a bit, and then gave a piece to Ella. Chimp chomp! Sam reaches over the arm of the chair and pulls on my sleeve, then opens her mouth again. So I give her another piece. Ella just stares very intently. She did try to lick off the piece that Sam hadn't eaten yet, but Sam knows that maneuver and forestalled her. Ella backed off when I told her "leave it" thank goodness. They went back to sitting in front of me begging again. They were hysterically funny.
I gave her a nice warm bottle of formula when we got home and put her to bed. She yelled for about twenty minutes and finally went to sleep.
She is very interested in teeth right now, which is a bit painful. She is also back to using her pacifier. She will crawl across the room to get hers off the bouncy thing. She stuffs it in her own mouth and is quite adept at turning it around so the rubber part is in her mouth.
Yesterday the two of them cracked me up. I was eating lunch and Samantha crawled over to my chair, hauled herself upright on the arm of the chair and stood there staring at me with her mouth opening and closing. Ella seemed to sense that there was food in the offing, so she came and sat right behind Sam. The look on their faces was identical. "Feed me" So I gave a piece of pita to Sam, waited a bit, and then gave a piece to Ella. Chimp chomp! Sam reaches over the arm of the chair and pulls on my sleeve, then opens her mouth again. So I give her another piece. Ella just stares very intently. She did try to lick off the piece that Sam hadn't eaten yet, but Sam knows that maneuver and forestalled her. Ella backed off when I told her "leave it" thank goodness. They went back to sitting in front of me begging again. They were hysterically funny.
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