Milestone

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Easter Upload

I've been more remiss about posting to the blog than I have about taking pictures, so here's a dump of what's been recorded since last we met on this page.

 

January 29: Blackberry

From Grandma Pam's February visit

Bumbo Breakfast

Marty Barylick, Tesla, Pam

Babysitters

Our regular babysitter Natalie

...and her pal Dylan

Ridiculous St. Patrick's Day outfit

First time on a horse

Just cute

Easter Series

Sitting Up!

No teeth yet, but:

Three totally cute videos

Christmas Morning in Soho, we performed an experiment with a bagel:

New Year's Eve in New Hampshire, I made a field recording of some bird sounds:

And this one from Jan 8, back in Sedona:

Pre-Xmas Photo Dump -- Now with Videos!

Today Tesla is 5 months and 5 days old. In three days our too-short but welcome Winter Break starts, and some of you will get to see Tesla -- some of you for the first time! Here are some photos we're late in posting, and three videos too.

Stylish mom, world-weary Tesla

Summit of Mount Patellae

Squash Soup!

Aunt meets Niece

O hai

Amanda's eyes seem hazel next to Tesla's, right?

Patio

Tesla poses for a classic Madonna/child pose with student Iona Swift

Tesla likes to try to eat her feet

Now the videos. This one shows one of Tesla's first attempts at eating something other than breast milk, with Amanda's assistance:

Next up, just a pile of adorable ladies:

Finally, Tesla laughs -- laughs! -- when Bridget pretends to eat her liver:

Chillin' on the Chaise Longue

Graham Frey, our Head of School, has been assuring us for a while that the Tesla car company was not doing so hot financially. Then last week the Tesla Model S was named Motor Trend's Car of the Year.

We don't think that this will result in a kindergarten class full of kids named Tesla — which is important to us — but we do think that if the company thrives, we are much more likely to hear the question "oh, is she named after the car?" Which might be kind of lame, but if all the girls named Kia, Sonata, and Portia can handle it, so can our little wonder.

Here's a video of her on the back patio in the silence after the kids have all gone on their Thanksgiving break (I sound a little throaty cuz I'm a little sick):

End of October Photo Dump

First the general update, then the photos

As of this writing...

• Tesla is 3 months, 2 weeks, and 4 days old.
• She weighs a little over 17lbs, which is about double her birth weight.
• She goes to bed at 7pm and generally wakes around 7am, with 1-2 wakings in the night for 20min feedings.
• After struggling with daytime naps, a coworker told us that she had success getting her kids down a scant hour after waking in the morning. It's worked pretty well for the last week!
• We got a white-noise maker after finding that she would sometimes wake up from naps if she heard our voices downstairs (even through closed doors!). What I like about WNMs is that the most popular design is still the same as it's been since the 70s: a frustum of a cone with perforated, nested, industrial beige powder-coated steel whoosies that turn to vary the pitch of the WN (no, can't be the pitch, because WN has got to be all over the spectrum, pitch-wise, right? The apparent pitch? The range of pitches?). I feel like the first one I ever saw was in Trudi's office in her apartment. If not, perhaps it was in Pearl-Ellen Gordon's office?
• It's 53°F in Sedona at 11pm. The heat doesn't get turned on at the VVS campus until after Field Trips. Luckily, while Jeremy is off in Los Angeles with unruly teens, Sue will be here to keep Bridget and Tesla warm. If anyone can talk Graham into turning the heat on early, it's Hurricane Sue!
• Speaking of hurricanes, Sandy is still rated a hurricane. Our thoughts are with everyone on the East Coast. Stay good and hunkered until it blows over, kay?
• In other news, Amanda (and her friend Sarah) will be driving to Arizona for Thanksgiving! We're looking forward to a restful week to recharge before the students return, and we're excited to introduce Tesla to her Aunt Amanda.
• Aunt Amanda!
• We think Tesla might be teething, as she's drooling like crazy and gnawing on her fingers to the point that sometimes her entire hand seems to disappear into her mouth. We live in fear of the day she yanks out her liver and drops it casually to the floor.
• We'd like to thank everyone who gave us all the baby stuff that we rely on every day. We would have a naked baby without you. Thank you so, so much.

We love you all! Here are the pictures!

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