Sunday, October 12, 2008

Look out Springsteen and Dylan!

Hi Sidra,
as usual, the best times with you come unexpectedly. Today you happened to pick up the harmonica and started groovin' with it. There's not much I can say about it, the video sort of speaks for itself. I'm just glad the camera was handy and I was able to catch it.
The other video is called Big Mouth for obvious reasons. You are gaining skill with the eating utensils but your biggest (pun!) problem is reasonable payload. Again, the footage speaks for itself.




Love, Aba

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Johnny Jump Up revisited

Hi Sidra,
your mom decided to recycle a plaything of yours today and see if you would still enjoy it. You can see from the video that the answer is yes. We were a little concerned that you would be too big for it but that proved not to be a problem. I thought you would be too much of a free spirit to be trapped in the doorway for very long but you stuck it out for about 20 hard minutes just as energetically as the 45 second video shows.

I saw a bumper sticker on a car yesterday that said
"100 years after you die it won't matter where you lived or what you drove, but how you raised your kids will matter." I hope your mom and I live up to that standard. I think my parents did.

Oh, I keep forgetting to include some stats. We measure you every three months, and the measuring day was last weekend. You are now 32 inches tall, and weigh about 26 pounds. In the previous 3 measurements you grew about a half inch during the three month period. This time you grew about an inch and a half. No wonder you're starting to reach things on the kitchen counter!