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New Developments

Posted by Will on September 20, 2011

One for the money ...

... and two for the show.

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On the Move

Posted by Will on July 27, 2011

Well, well. Look who’s mobile now?

For the past week, week-and-a-half, Nola has been what we refer to as “scootin’”. That is, doing her best impression of a Army low-crawl. Since the first signs of horizontal kinetic action, her motion and technique has slowly refined itself to a passable slither.

Nola still isn’t quite up on her hands and knees but I would imagine she will have perfected her tot trot in the coming weeks.

I call this look "The Rawhide".

... and I call this look "The Face I Make Most Often".

Trying to gage my VO2 max

Coming around the corner with a head full of steam ...

The sister to "bed head" — "bath head".

With Nola's wild mane there is seemingly always a brush lurking in waiting.

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Weekend Developments

Posted by Will on May 30, 2011

This past weekend we initiated a big step in Nola’s growth and development – eating.

A few weeks ago, one of Nola’s revolving door physician’s at Children’s Hospital told Brittany that around 5 months, we could start attempting to give Nola rice cereal. So, as Nola will be, unbelievably, 5 months this Wednesday, we decided to see if we could pique her interest in ingestion that was off the liquid path.

Much to my surprise, rice cereal, for infants, is not the equivalent to the famous snap, crackle, and pop of toasted grain. It’s not even close. It’s more along the lines of a instant mashed potatoes. Adding a little bit of breast milk to the fine flakes renders a mush only a baby could love.

It’s only been a few days but Nola has taken to this soft, wet pulpy mess like a fish to water. Concurrently, she is undergoing an oral exploratory stage of development; everything must be put in her mouth for further review. So, combining food with this new investigative method has been a win-win for the Peanut. Here is to hoping that later eating adventures go this smoothly.

Nola's first bite.

Are you sure this is cereal?

Trying to take it all in.

More, please!

Another development, although one that has been long in the making, is having to say farewell to our dear friends Stan and Susie Austin who are retiring down the road to Richmond.

Stan and Susie were some of our first good friends in D.C. They are some of the kindest most hospitable people that we have known and have been inspirations in their tireless work with the children and less fortunate in our city.

We are sorry to see them go but know this is not good-bye.