Month: February 2011

I’m always impressed at how babies are so open to learning.  I’m taking my cue from Nicky and admitting that everybody makes mistakes from time to time and the best thing to do when you make mistakes is to learn from them.  Here are two of my recent Mommy lessons. 

Lesson #1.  Today Nicky was showing off for another baby in the grocery store and managed to launch a whole pint of blue berries on the floor, where they exploded in a sticky mess.   How did he get his hands on a pint of blueberries, you might ask?  Oh, his mother gave it to him to play with.  Judging by the look on the other mom’s face, that was the wrong move.  Rookie.  

Lesson #2.  At dinner yesterday, Nicky let out a nice belch that surprised even himself.  He then, with a look of supreme concentration, tried to do it again.  He wasn’t successful at recreating a real burp, but he did get a pretty nice fake one out, and then another, and another, and another.  I couldn’t help myself and let out a little giggle, thinking that just one couldn’t hurt.  Oh how wrong I was.  Now it’s a game.  Rookie. 

This is being filed under the lessons learned category…more to come for sure.

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Watch out Lenny Kravitz…here comes some competition…

 

I know that in some parts of the country they haven’t seen the grass in months, but here in California it feels like spring is here to stay…maybe even summer.  Today is a beautiful 75 degrees with a light, warm breeze, and we took advantage of the good weather to head to our local petting zoo, Lemos Farm (pictures here).  To the adult eye, it may be a bit run down, but the kids seem to love it.  There were baby kittens and baby goats and we even got to see a goat being born (I couldn’t help feeling sorry for the poor mommy goat giving birth on display like that without even the joy of an epidural, but she made it through just fine).  We got to go on a train ride and Nicky even got to ride a pony.  You might have thought the pony ride would be a little bit scary, but Nick was just fine.  Now, the mechanical train (you know, the kind they used to have in the grocery store that cost a quarter to ride) was a different story…he totally freaked out after about 10 seconds.  Go figure.