Boxcar movie

Here is the movie to go with the last photo of Fiona...Driving around the living room floor with her dad in front of a warm fireplace.

Boxcar Baby

Hi All, back to still pictures for a little while: Devon and I both remember making cars out of boxes when we were little. What fun to drive Fiona around the livingroom!!!
She's still only crawling backwards but around here we take what we can get.
Love
Louise

The Dummy Trick

Here is Fiona showing her dummy placement skills, usually if you put two dummys in front of her she gets caught in a loop exchanging one for the next, of course when I try to catch it on video she needs a prompt. Check out the "almost crawling!!"

Multitasking

As you can see Fiona is Jumping and giving attention to the written word as well.

Video

fiona learning to reach out

I'm branching out and giving moving pictures a try. This is Fiona last month working out how to sit and play she's better at it now, I'll post another video soon. If it works and y'all can view without trouble I'll keep posting them as well as photos. Let me know how it works (you'll have to play your own theme music because this is a silent movie.
Love
Louise

Forward Progress

Hi All,
We are enjoying our first rainy weekend of the season in Santa Cruz. Indoor life isn't too bad though. Fiona is getting more mobile by the day, At the moment she sits up and jumps along on her bum which propels her forward. She also makes a little extra forward motion by bending and straightening her legs alternately while sitting up. She almost never does face plants from sitting anymore, she even caught herself mid fall this morning with her hands. She still thinks that clapping is done with your feet, It mat be a shock when she learns the rest of us use our hands.
As you can see by the photo she has a lot to keep her busy in the sun by the front door. She is content to play by herself for long periods until something is too far out of reach and requires parental assistance. Mostly, we are equally busy watching from our tasks and marvelling at how lucky we are.

Love
Louise and Devon

Date Night

A special thanks to John and Vicki who came over to give Louise some rest yeaterday afternoon and to babysit Fiona for an evening date for her parents. Having them here we took advantage of a chance to duplicate a moment from 32 years ago when Devon, John, and Ken Pearse posed for a photo in the living room of our house. A few things are different in the recreation but here are John, Devon, and Fiona Pearse. Note The absence of a beer-gut, some house remodeling, the renewal of "muttonchops," and Fiona's inability to copy the pose from the original in the recent picture. Even so a good time was had by all.

self pacification

Fiona is getting better and better at putting her dummy (pacifier) in by herself. It's not always the right way up but it seems to work.

Big Pants

When Jane was here when Fiona was born she made several pairs of overalls for Fiona. I thought that they were impossibly big for the tiny baby we had then. But, here is fiona fitting into her big pants. Thanks Jane for thinking ahead.

Love
Louise