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February 24, 2003 12:00 AM
More baby happenings
This morning we all woke up early enough that a family dog walk was an option. Betsy wakes up now, does a few minutes of stretches and then is all bright eyed and ready to play. Play currently is having board books read to her, grabbing at dangling toys or at the person interacting with her and kicking mightily. She beams an impossible smile that seems confident that the world is a warm wonderful happy place. Er... until we stuff her in a snowsuit anyway.

So I played with her for about a half an hour and then we got ready for a dogwalk. The snowsuit is warm. If you stick your finger up the sleeve to touch her hand, her hand is room temperature, so she can't be chilled or at least you wouldn't think so. The hood is unacceptable, though, so I don't know. As is anything that prevents her strenuous kicking, so the baby sling was also unacceptable. That's new. Previous experience has shown that the sling is actually a baby calming device. So we started out under protest. She just never got any more pleased with the situation. A mile of furrowed brows and muttering complaint punctuated by genuine protest if she couldn't see where we were going. Reliably, though, as soon as we got back to the house, extracted her from the sling and shucked off the snowsuit, there was my sweetie, smiling away. Apparently morning constitutionals are not in favor with her Littleness. Will have to hope summer brings a different feeling on the subject.

Posted by karen at February 24, 2003 12:00 AM