Evening Parade

Lydia Violet attends the Evening Parade at the Marine Barracks at 8th & I streets in Washington, D.C.

1st Metro Ride (outside the womb)

Today L°VE took her first ante-womb ride. Of course she rode the Metro with me all the time to work while I was pregnant. As you can see, today she was just as oblivious as she would have been then.

Girlie Girl

Thanks to Dima's friend Mark and his wife Dominique, Lydia Violet has come in to a load of new clothes. Here she's wearing her new pink headband. Thanks Mark and Dominique!

Learning Self Reliance

Lydia takes a crack at feeding herself. Not really. But it looks funny.

Back from Down the Shore

I have no idea if that's the way I'm supposed to say it... "Down the Shore" I know but I'm not sure when it's "Down the Shore," just "the Shore" or when you're supposed to say "the Jersey Shore." None the less we are back and we had an excellent time chillin' out with the White side of the family.

Lydia had many firsts over the weekend. First beach (Shore) experience, first Safari, first roadtrip, etc. All in all it was nice to get away. Now I'm catching up on my Internet withdrawl when I should be in bed. In fact that's where I'm headed. Right now. Later.

She missed it again!

Then the giraffe walked right by our car. Within inches! See the two legs through the window? Lydia Violet missed that too.

Up close and personal

A giraffe checks out the visitors and their cars.

Baby's 1st Safari

Lydia sleeps through her first safari adventure at Six Flags in NJ. See the elephant in the background?

Dinner at Klein's

Just got home from dinner: Jen, Uncle Steve, L°VE & Dima.

Chillin' at the Shore

L°VE taking a siesta Sunday afternoon at the beach in New Jersey. Agh the good life.

Wii Tournie

Cousin Mark & Dima race cows on the Wii while Jen feeds Lydia Violet with one hand & blogs with the other.

Sweet Girl

Baby's First Beach

Papa & Lydia Violet soak up some sun. No worries. Other than this she under the umbrella with SPF 50 on.

Forgotten Update

A pic of Lydia Violet getting burped after a feeding. She's giving her best effort in that area lately. She had her 1 mo. Dr. Appt. on Wed. & she's still gaining. 9 lbs. 12 ozs. And 22 inches. Wow! That means she's grown 2 inches in 6 weeks! The Dr. Said she's in the 70th percentile for height & the 50th for weight. You go girl!

Roadside Emergency

On the way to the shore Lydia Violet had a diaper emergency so we pulled over and changed her on Dima's trunk in the parking lot of the Country House restaurant. There's a first time for everything.

Biggiemoat

Lydia takes a ride on Mama's hippo. Giddy-up! (Biggiemoat means hippo in Russian.) Doesn't this look like a picture out of a 70s textbook? Or Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom?

happy birthday

With 2 minutes still left in the day Lydia Violet says happy birthday to her Poppy Tom. Happy Birthday!

mystery solved

The last couple of days were tough. Tuesday night/Wednesday morning I got a total of about 40 minutes sleep. Lydia Violet was CRANKY and uninterested in sleeping. You'd think then that she would have crashed yesterday. Nope. She dozed, but in general remained cranky and wide awake. Dima came home, took over and then sent me to bed. I woke up to find that he had slept with her in the basement and let me get a full night's sleep. My hero. He also confirmed as I had suspected that Lydia had been working up to another massive poop. His supervisor, Kate, had suggested pumping her legs, as opposed to the q-tip method. Well that worked! A little aerobic workout and she did her business. Suddenly Lydia isn't cranky and as of this moment she is fast asleep.

Another milestone... she no longer craves the swaddle.

Got Milk?

premature apology

My dad pointed out yesterday that an eighteen year old Lydia might not be amused by my musings on her diaper contents. Lydia Violet, for that I apologize ahead of time for my previous posts and, I'm sure, posts to come. When you're a mother you will understand.