5 months

I took Lydia to the doctor today and got the following advice for a 5 month old:

Don't take her to the mall. There is air-conditioning there and people are breathing in the same air. You can take her to the outdoor mall though. No problem there.

Take her to the bazaar or the boardwalk as there are lots of people of different sizes and hair color to see there (which is comical to me, because the only people with different hair color are the foreigners and the women that dye their hair).

Invite older children to your house. Bake a cake. She will like watching them.

who needs new clothes?

This is Micah admiring himself in the mirror and then telling mom that he would like to wear his "blue how shirt" today...translated..."I want to wear sleep dog as a shirt instead of whatever commoner type of shirt you would desire me to wear today."

playgrounds

 I'm not sure why I have stressed for a whole year about walking up and down the hill to distant playgrounds. This dream playground has been right under my nose the whole time (literally right across the street from our apartment)! Maybe when Micah turns 3 I'll let him live out the great adventure of playing on wood piles with miscellaneous pipes and who knows what else. Just another way that city life and suburban life have different definitions of play. :)

Bob the Tomato

A salute to weird produce. I nearly passed this masterpiece by at the market last night, but then thought, "hmm, wouldn't everyone love to see this patriotic fruit/veg." So...a prize-winning smile for the best name for this tomato!

Exciting events...

Lydia's first cereal meal! 

 Lydia is her own little lady...she dove right into that mushy yum stuff! Micah lunged for his first food with his mouth...Lydia lunged with her hands!

 Possibly more interested in gnawing on spoon than the actual food on it.

And what may become a new familiar scene at our house.

peek a boo

The main reason this child cannot be left alone for longer than 5 seconds...

more milestones

Some might think this girl is ready for solids.

 Micah's new big boy bed. Yes, it could sleep 12 small children. This might be the last time we buy something via the internet just by looking at a picture (in other words, without asking dimensions....or if anyone in the galaxy sells sheets of this particular size).  But it is really cool!

 Bonding with Dad and Mom.