Just shy of her 10 month old birthday, Rhiannon took her first deliberate steps Saturday, May 19 before we got in the shower. 3 of them, which we then went out screaming to daddy (which scared the be-jeezus out of him) and then 3 more to show daddy. Since, she has been a bit shy about doing it and wants to feel secure even if she isn't-like holding on to a T-shirt.
Yesterday, May 23, I believe Rhiannon made her first joke. She was on the floor while I was making dinner and had her bottle leftover from school. She looked at me, put the bottle in her ear, and broke off into peels of laughter. Pure joy :)
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Rhiannon at 9 months
Rhiannon turned 9 months old shortly after we returned from our trip to Turkey. She says mama and daddy and bub or bub-bub for Joaquin (we think this is her trying to say bud, which we call Joaquin all the time). She said Lola clear as day when we were in Istanbul, but hasn't repeated it. She also has the cadence and appropriateness of hello and I love you. And she is a mover! She can stand up on her own for about 30 seconds at a time and is a super fast crawler/assisted walker. Fast and ridiculously strong. She knows clapping and is working on waving. She also lifts her hands when we say 'up!' She loves music. Her stuffed dog offers her jams up daily.
Turkey was a phenomenal trip and simultaneously hard. Maybe it is because of 2 children instead of 1? Maybe because Joaquin is a toddler and has definite ideas about what he likes or doesn't like? Both Gid and I agreed that if you took out the hardness, it was the most amazing place we've been. History and relics everywhere and such a combination of cultures and religions! Coupled with mountains and canyons that looked other worldly and water that looked more like stained glass and it is a beautiful country. And they loved children more than anywhere else in the world. We would be in the subway station at rush hour and no less than 5 professionally dressed men would stop to give Rhiannon a coochy coo.
Next week I begin my new job which is exciting and scary at the same time. It will be the first time in our adult life that we are only working and taking care of family-no school, no interviewing-what will we do with ourselves!
Turkey was a phenomenal trip and simultaneously hard. Maybe it is because of 2 children instead of 1? Maybe because Joaquin is a toddler and has definite ideas about what he likes or doesn't like? Both Gid and I agreed that if you took out the hardness, it was the most amazing place we've been. History and relics everywhere and such a combination of cultures and religions! Coupled with mountains and canyons that looked other worldly and water that looked more like stained glass and it is a beautiful country. And they loved children more than anywhere else in the world. We would be in the subway station at rush hour and no less than 5 professionally dressed men would stop to give Rhiannon a coochy coo.
Next week I begin my new job which is exciting and scary at the same time. It will be the first time in our adult life that we are only working and taking care of family-no school, no interviewing-what will we do with ourselves!
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