Florida in December

There's nothing like going to the beach during the last week of December. Click the image below to see pictures from a trip to sunny Sarasota.

Visit Grandma and Papa

October-November 2006

Includes Halloween pictures. Happy birthday! Erin is 1!

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September 2006

Erin is ten months old, crawling around like mad, crawling up stairs and sometimes down, standing up whenever she has something to hold onto, and pointing to everything interesting around her, which is just about everything. She's back in "Music Together" class and also going to "Tumbles" once a week. She is getting to be a pickier eater, throwing overboard whatever isn't appealing. She babbles all the time, having branched out from "da-da-da" to "muh" and lots of other important consonants. She loves her two-day-a-week nanny, Clara, and her one-day-a-week-each caretakers Mommy, Daddy, and Nana. She loves cats, dogs, and other kids. She has exactly two very sharp teeth, and the third one has been coming any day now for months. Whenever something's not just right, certainly it's because she's teething.

Here she is playing by her favorite all-consuming new toy.


And here is a link to some recent pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/dougklein/Sept2006SoFar

August 2006

A few more pictures from August, when Erin was nine months old:

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And at the end of August, we vacationed in Avalon, New Jersey, for two weeks. It's a beach town on the Jersey shore, and she did get to the beach a few times, but the camera did not. Here are some pictures of other things she did while on vacation:

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Nine months old!

At "Music Together" class... Making her own music...
After a bath...

At the zoo! 

From crawling to sitting

Today, July 26, 2006, without all of the coaching we've done to try to get her to do other new tricks, Erin figured out how to go from the four-point crawl position to sitting up. The trick is tucking the knee far enough under her body. I wouldn't yet say she has mastered it, but it's going well.

Crawling, meanwhile, is still a work in progress. She can go short distances using the military crawl (with tummy on the floor). She can hold herself in the all-up crawling position, and even lift a hand, and even move her knees a little bit, but she is still more likely to go backwards than forwards, even when the target is straight ahead.

Da-Da-Da-Da in the Exersaucer

July 8, 2006 Using her new sounds.

Da-Da-Da-Da....

(Or: Doug learns how to use YouTube.)

July 8, 2006: Erin explodes in a burst of consonant sounds. By evening, she has chosen one as her favorite to repeat over and over, and it happens to be "da." She isn't too into performing her new skill for the camera, however, so to catch a few da's, you have to sit through lots of playing.




If clicking play on that one doesn't work, go here instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_S1ZWgK_l0



And if clicking play on that one doesn't work, go here instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5k3vERyf8k

For pictures of July to date, visit Kodak:
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