Growing Baby – Gribblog

Phoebe and I are back from visiting her daycare, Take a Break. We went to meet her teachers. She doesn’t start until August 2, but I’m headed back to work full time on Tuesday, so it was a good time to go check it out. Their brand new building is officially opening on July 10, so Phoebe will be taken care of in luxury. She probably won’t want to come home! Here she is with her main teacher, Tomi.

While she was hanging out at daycare, I went swimming at the rec center, treated myself to a latte, and read a book for a while. So I was in the lap of luxury too!

Let me catch you up on the last week and a half. I bought Dave an infant sling for our Chariot for Father’s Day, so we tried it out right away. Phoebe seems to really enjoy it. She looks around quite a bit and then often falls asleep near the end of the ride.

At work last Thursday.

On Friday I had a LOT of work to do for the University of Phoenix, so Phoebe entertained herself quite a bit. Just in case you didn’t believe me about how well she knows how to get the farm animals moving…

Here she does some interesting things with her toes. I think she’ll be grabbing her feet soon, which will mean they’ll end up in her mouth. I’m kind of looking forward to that feat of flexibility (pun intended)!

We had coffee again with Brenda, and I brought Phoebe a new toy. She’s been chewing on her shirt constantly, so I thought it would be nice for her to chew on something else…like Miss Horsie! She seems to really like Miss Horsie to chew on. Crinkle Lion was too crinkly for comfort, but she still loves to play with him.

Here’s a shot of Miss Horsie in action.

On Saturday, Uncle Matt and Aunt Erin arrived for a visit. They hadn’t met Phoebe before, and they seem to like her pretty well, even when she screeches and spits up all over. They’ve elicited plenty of smiles, too!

Phoebe and Daddy watched some soccer while we waited for Uncle Matt and Aunt Erin.

On Tuesday, Matt, Erin, Phoebe, and I went over to Waneka Lake in the morning. I had never walked all the way around, and I regret not taking photos of the HUGE tadpoles and baby ducks we saw in the wetland part. (I only know what they were thanks to our resident biology experts. I would never have seen a tadpole on my own.) There was a pelican on the lake and some carp in it. Of course, with Matt there, we did a little exercising on every one of those fitness challenge pieces of equipment. Having a baby really messes up your baseline fitness! I was awful, especially on things that used my stomach muscles.