Rain delayed game and such . . .

We took a trip to the big city, ABQ . . . to see some baseball! Aida did really well! She liked flirting with the beer servers behind us! There was a rain delay, but it was short lived! We were protected by the top tier anyway!





On the way down I fed her in the car. I was a bit too late with the bib, but tried it anyway . . . somehow banana and cookie got under it!



Shout out to Nel and Gretchen! Happy Birthday you two!

On riding things and dates

Does she like it?



She does!


Also, ice cream date night!


Aida slept in the chariot while Elena and I had an ice cream date 10 feet away. Small victories!

8 months old!

Hurray! Aida Mae at 8 months, some bottom front teeth barely visible in the original:


Eats her own food by herself:


Hardly any outside her mouth:


Good at sitting around and playing with toys:

Yelling and sort of crawling

booty baby

Vice cousins 1 and 2 of soon to be 4.

Thats Iris on the left and Petra on the right. Petra is newborn of my cousin Alison and MattM just this week. WElcome vice-cousin Petra. Iris is 5 months old of my cousin Gwyneth and her husband MattE. Cleverly, these tiny vice-cousins are cousins to each other. This, being the year of Aida's vice-cousins, there should be revealed two more by october.

Last year was the year of the cousin, with Oli preceding Aida:

("old" cousin sophie, baby aida, and not so baby Oliver at Christmas 08)


and Tristen barely postceeding Aida.

(tristen somewhere behind aida)
and a more photogenic cousin Tristen more recently:




Next year should be the year of a whole lot of nothing, unless there are some surprise babies a brewing by March 2010.