Firstly, she can crawl and pull herself to standing. She can even coast a step or two in a sideways direction. This all happened in the span 24 hours. Very cool, and very fascinating to see just occur so suddenly. She gave us very little indication that she was ready (no backwards crawling, no lunging), and then she just gave 'er. Babies rock.
My sister Nicole and her husband Mike and son Hudson (18 months old) are visiting. Catherine loves having big cousin Hudson around. He's so interesting and good-looking. Except for the chocolate face.
A first interaction:
Pool time was such good fun:
Then we hit the park. Bean had some swings...
...while Hudson wandered around and took in the sights.
We also snuck away to Jill and Chris Wagner's house, where it was an Acadia reunion for Jenny. Most of her university friends now have children, and so there was no shortage of little people to interact with.
Here's Caren playing ball with Catherine. Bean is like, "you think I want that puny ball? Look how big my ball is!"
Bean is a great eater - we can't complain. But her favourite food (by far) is watermelon. She loves to chow down on the sweetness:
The next day, we went to the public gardens. Although you can no longer feed the ducks, it didn't stop Hudson from chasing them around and saying "duck!" 1000 times.
Bean checks out the flowers:
It's been a scorching week here in Nova Scotia. 30C every day for a week, and not a cloud in sight. It was so hot, we decided get white-trash in our back yard with the kids, the kiddy pool, and some beers.
But why play in a tiny pool when you can go to the Northumberland shore? We hit the cottage, where the beach is wide and the water is bathtub warm. It was a lot of fun.
Hudson, who auditioned for the part of Danny Zuko in Grease, decides to cool off with some iced tea. It ended up being more of a wet T-shirt competition.
And I'll finish it off with some pics of my girls:
I have some videos too, but they must wait for another post.
