We finally went camping at Anini Beach! Leilani was happy, relaxed and quiet, and loved to be in the ocean. We have adorable photos, and will post them shortly.
Nap at the beach
Leilani loves to bathe
Leilani sitting in the tent
Year: 2006
OK that’s German. It means red, red, red is my favorite color, and is part of a children’s song, that iterates the colors, and why they are the favorite color. Leilani loves everything that’s red, her happy apple toy with the pretty chimes probably started it, but she loves to chew on beets, tomatoes, apples and mountain apples, watermelon…
This is a pretty old clip, our friends Ian and Karla came over in April.
I am playing with my new toys – the beloved iMac and the not so beloved Sony camera (don’t buy Sony – email me for the full story!) I finally got it to work. Well, kinda. I still have to convert all the clips manually before I can edit them, but I finally sat down 3 hours in a row, and did most. And yes, this is my very first iMovie clip, and I am very proud of it. It has a few flaws, but I’ll get better and so will the clips. Actually, I just fixed it – the clip is smaller and better quality now, and I removed the blackness at the end…
We took Leilani in for her 6 months checkup a week early. She was in great health, no more signs of the 3-day fever over the weekend except for a slight rash, which made us speculate about roseola. Or maybe a tomato allergy, but that is a different story—still working a blog post on red foods.
Leilani is 27 3/16 inches long, between 69 and 70 cm. This is tall for her age: it’s the average length for a 9 months old, and still OK for 11 months. At 16 pounds (7.250 kg), her weight is exactly right for her age. We suspect she lost almost a pound while she was sick though because she lost one of her chins. Her head circumfrence is 42 cm, which is also in line with age, though her height. Dr Ancharski doesn’t call her too skinny, and we think it makes her look nicer proportioned than the average baby, and helps with all her activities. She is sitting alone for longer periods of time and playing with both hands, becoming more mobile by scooting, rolling, and creeping, and lately also getting her hips and butt of the ground. No real crawling yet, but for those familiar with yoga, she is doing the downward dog…
Leilani is healthy again, after a fever that lasted 3 days. It made her cranky, but she had no other symptoms… Yesterday she felt so well already, that we decided to see the Nutcracker, performed by the children of the Kaua’i Academy of Dance and Gymnastics. Two of Chloe’s sisters were in the production and had sold us the tickets. They performed it in May because, sadly, the director’s father died during the production in November.
I guess you all know Andy and me, so you won’t be surprised that for a show supposed to start at 4:00 pm, we decided to go at 3:10 pm. Both of us finished a shower in record time, fed and diapered the baby, put on her cutest dress, stressed a bit, rushed to Lihue, and arrived plenty early Kauai time; it actually started at 4:25.
We thought it would be a good way to teach Leilani to be good and quiet through a performance. Since we weren’t attached to seeing the performance, we sat next to the door and were prepared to take her out. Children’s ballet atracts a lot of families, there must have been 20 babies and toddlers. Two screamed their head off through the initial anouncements until the director asked nicely for them to be taken out. Leilani slept until the music came on and then watched and listened, interested until a few minutes before the intermission. She was most fussy in the dark before the curtains opened and during the clapping and cheering. Whenever she started babbling we’d whisper for her to please be quiet. We took her for a short walk, and the 2nd half was not as easy, and we had to take her out 3 times, but for just a minute at a time. She realized that she was excluded because of her noise, immediately quieted down, and seemed eager to go back in. Even though we had to stand and hold her the whole second half, she saw more of the show than many toddlers who had to be taken out.
I was pretty surprised to see the children all dance flat-footed, I still remember all the pain from my early ballet lessons (I bet I could still walk on the points in ballet shoes). There was one teen-age dancer who was really good, and from the program we learned she is going to the San Francisco Ballet Academy.