This week Miss Leyba has been very interested in:
Walking down to our neighborhood park, Miss Leyba explored grass, leaves, sand, bushes, and gravel:
She came home with a tremendous amount of dirt caked under her itty bitty nails.
Getting dirty can be so much fun.
This post is for all of you getting a foot of snow on the East Coast. Here’s what our winters are like.
We try to run in the park several times a week. If the weather is cooperating and it’s not raining, we’re lucky if we get a 20 minute run in before Miss Leyba declares she’s had enough of her jogging stroller and wants to get out and walk around.
In an attempt to give her more exploratory time, she and I have been taking more walks just the two of us in our neighborhood. We’re lucky if we get five houses down in the span of a half hour. She has to touch every tree and flower, lift up every rock, run her fingers through the gravel driveways, and walk up to front doors and practice going up and down the steps on the front stoops. She has a great time!
So yesterday we decided to hit a local park and just walk around and explore.
We went to The Peace Garden:
Oh, the pine cones. I think she was disappointed she could only fit one in each hand. She kept having to pick and choose about what she could carry around with her.
Playing in the gravel was really fun too. Look at those patterns! Miss Leyba loves making art wherever she goes.
Half the pictures we took show her running away from us, heading off to explore!
We then walked over to the dog park. Boy, was that exciting for our girl!
Watching dogs play sure takes some serious concentration!
Someone has a purple tongue from eating purple potatoes. Check out her hair: full of food! I assure you that she took a bath immediately after this meal. (And then proceeded to pee on the floor AGAIN! I’ve ordered her a little potty. But that’s another post…)
Here she is helping us move books from the living room to the guest room:
Who knew that the next stage of baby proofing could be so fun? Now we have half as many shelves to unload and climb in the living room as we did two days ago. Next weekend we’ll hopefully get to the rest. It’s mostly my books that are left so it may take a while. That’s because I like them alphabetized. I’m a librarian’s daughter; it must be genetic.
Removing the bookshelves opened up the living room and suddenly we have all this extra space. Alas with the books gone so has the feeling of coziness. We also lost the spot for our keys and sunglasses, etc. Hopefully I’ll find a stunning and affordable solution to our entry way problem in my copious amount of free time.
I think a trip to salvation army is on the horizon. And frequent checks of craigslist and freecycle in the meantime. Perhaps one of these lovely items from Pottery Barn will show up? One can only hope.
Well, that was an unexpected blog break. Posts every day last week and then none this week, such is life. What can I say? We’ve been busy soaking up the gorgeous California sunshine and oh-so-social to boot. We had not one, but TWO play dates this week. Miss Leyba was in heaven.
Tomorrow the rain is supposed to start up again, so you can expect many more posts soon. Including the birthday post that I still owe you. I haven’t forgotten, I’m just ever behind. You’ve come to expect it, right?
And now on to the title of this post. Miss Leyba is no longer eating a strictly vegan diet.
Now that’s she’s one year old, we’ve thrown caution to the wind and have been introducing a steady stream of new foods including yogurt, eggs and, gasp, wheat. (To those of you who don’t know my diet, we waited so long because of my family history of food sensitivities.) So far, so good.
Plain yogurt is evidently very tasty when eaten with blueberries and banana wedges:
Wait til she tries chocolate cake. At this rate, she may get to try that indulgence by middle school.