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Last week in the kitchen... well, check out the video...

Korean Food, the Scooter, and Lots of Walking!

Sadie's become really good at walking places reliably and at a reasonable speed.  In addition to being able to walk to and from the park, as well as to the @Union diner, today Sadie walked home from Coolidge Corner with us (about 0.6 miles)!

We also played with the scooter a bunch at the park yesterday and she's really getting the hang of it (none of the videos I took turned out good).

Last night Matti and Mark came over and we all went out for Korean food.  Sadie was awesome at trying all sorts of new things including Miso soup, fried sweet potatoes, and rice sticks.

Here she is eating the Miso Soup

And here she is generally being cute

Weekend Activities

The weather this weekend was perfect in a New England fall way.  On Saturday it was warm and sunny, so we spent lots of time at our local park.

Sadie figured out how to spin herself on this structure and had a lot of fun (until she got too dizzy...)

On Sunday it was sunny but suddenly quite cold so we decided to go back to the Children's Museum.  Once we walked out of the station on our way there, Sadie wanted out of the stroller.  She enjoyed looking at the river as we walked.

We had fun hanging at at the museum, but I didn't take as many pictures this time...

Hope everyone else had a nice weekend too.

Let's Go Bowling

Sadie has been enjoying her stuffed animal bowling pins for a while now in a lot of ways:
- Taking them out and putting them back in their basket
- Learning animal names and noises
- Using the basket as a drum
- Playing "fetch" with the ball with mom and dad (she still hasn't quite gotten the rolling it back part)

One thing that was missing, however, was the actual bowling...

Well, she caught me playing a bowling game on my phone and was transfixed, so I thought, why not set up the pins and see what happens?

Note: Story was from Tuesday, video is from the second time we played, on Saturday, but I think you'll forgive us for this minor poetic license.

Weekend with Babulya and Deda

Sadie spent this past weekend with Babulya and Deda on the Cape.  Thankfully Babulya and Deda supplied us with lots of pictures and videos while we were apart.

They went to the boardwalk...

They went to look at some fish at a local restaurant...

They went to the playground...

and played with fun toys...

It looks like everyone had a good time but Mom and Dad were very happy to see our munchkin again.

Being a Cardinals fan means you can have a playoffs growth chart...

Ready for the games both at home and on the road...

And it's gametime...

2013 Playoffs

Holiday Weekend

Last week was Rosh Hashannah and this past weekend was Yom Kippur. The family went to services both holidays.  Sadie heard her very first Shofar blow (though I think she was mostly confused).  On our way home from services this Saturday she was starting to look very sleepy in the stroller.  We feared ruining her nap so we made her walk much of the way home.  Luckily, it was a beautiful fall day...

When we got home we got ready to host break fast.  We made a children's table out of Sadie's new furniture and she had fun exploring it's new location in the house.

 On Sunday we then went to a friends house to "help" them build their suckah (translation: we stood around and ate their food while the kids ran around the back yard).

All in all it was a very nice weekend :-)

Sadie's new spot

Sadie got a new table and chairs to play at in the office and we've put away the playpen that used to be there. She seems to be pretty happy with it. She just keep growing and growing....

Laundry Day

Sadie is eager to be helpful around the house...

The other day, Dad was doing laundry and Sadie wanted to help sort the clothes, who am I to stop her?

<for those of you who read the email digest, there's a video here>

The rest of the day, she kept looking into the various baskets and trying to drag them around the house. I couldn't convince her we were done with the sorting...

Relatedly, I tried to get her to help me put things in the washing machine and she is terrified to go near it when the door is open. No idea what's up with that, so it'll be a while before she's doing her own laundry I suppose...

Music Class Returns

The return of fall means the return of our Music Together class. 

I'm finally getting used to being the only Dad in a room full of Moms, Grandmas, and nannies (I've yet to see a male nanny) and Sadie definitely has a better sense of why we go and what to do while we're there, though I think she's still a bit overwhelmed. These pictures are from week one, where, as you can see, she shook the egg shakers quite a bit (and put them in her mouth only a little).

By week two, she was running around the room and generally having a ball (including being very helpful getting and returning instruments between songs) but is still working on the actual music concept I think.

All-in-all, it's a great time and I know I'm looking forward to the rest of the semester.