My Geek Baby

We’re still holding on to the baby sign I was given during the baby shower

But we have to give it up, Indira is almost 7 months old…so for posterity…one more time.

We’re slow on updates this month. It’s just too hot. But this isn’t slowing Indie down.

She’s sprinkling pixie dust on the garden to make it grow

Enjoying picking out her own outfits and finding new uses for her books

Playing OctoTunes

Getting up on all fours

And…sprouting two bottom teeth. It’s been a busy month so far.

I read somewhere that infants have the ability to hold their breath under water and kick their legs. So can they swim? Not really, but it probably looks like they can. As you can see, I didn”t take any chances with Indie this weekend when we visited my parents. Sunscreen, hat, swim shirt, turtle raft with shade. Yes, all of the above.

Getting ready

Ok, swim! (er, ah, float!)

After dinner on the porch

We looked for koi fish in the pond

Summer…

even though she was a bit cranky and drooling and cutting two teeth, it was Summer…ahh…Summer

Baby’s room has a Nature theme.

Turtles, butterflies and ladybugs are all welcome here.

Pictures on the wall were covers from children’s books.

My cousin Carey and I were once the youngest members of the family.

Our kiddos are now the youngest members of the clan. They met for the first time during Memorial Day weekend, where we celebrated Mimi’s 94th birthday.

I think they had a pretty good time.

For those of you who missed the early days, here’s our girl barely two days old.

Happy Mother’s Day. Readers may throw rotten tomatoes if I wax too philosophical and sentimental again so soon following my recent entry about the blog’s one year anniversary or the Embracing the Role of Mom entry. So here’s a shorty. Happy day to all the moms out there. I’m seeing you in a whole new light.

It’s been one year since we started this blog. A year ago, I learned that I was pregnant.

A year ago when our world just started turning upside down. It’s been an amazing, life-changing, scary, wild and wonderful ride. And for this impatient momma, it was well worth the wait to finally meet Indira. Pregnancy seems endless some days but it’s over before you know it and now we’re elbow deep in baby clothes that’s she’s already outgrown and full of a new perspective on being parents, the new meaning of sleep, and a deep sense of satisfaction at the end of the day that we made it through, managed to get laundry washed and dinner made and got the baby to sleep before 9PM. As I said in the recovery room looking at Indira as if she mysteriously appeared out of thin air, “I can’t believe we made a person.” But now, she’s as much part of the household as if she’d always been here.

Happy Anniversary.

… but if you scroll really fast, you can practically see her move!

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The booties on her feet are part of the Pavlik harness, which is holding her leg at an angle while she outgrows hip dysplasia. It’s very common in first borns, girls and babies who are breech. It doesn’t bother her a bit, as you can see from her kicks, and she’ll bet rid of her baby lederhosen soon enough.