The girl has rhythm!

Eowyn is a very musical child. I'm not claiming prodigy (yet) or anything, but she has wowed her dad and I quite a bit. She is certainly drawn to music, and most specifically bass... We have encouraged her enthusiasm by giving her a nice range of musical influences, some musical instruments and she and I recently started going to a music class, called "Music Together". It is an international program for kids and music. It's a great concept, and our specific instructor is excellent. We are having lots of fun! Eowyn's little friend, Carrigan, from mom's group, attends, as well.

Here are the two of them playing with stick to one of the songs. Eowyn was even keeping in rhythm for chunks at a time. Maybe my drum set won't collect dust it's whole life...

Her first Natural Disaster...

A "state of emergency" has been declared for our part of the state. Flooding, serious power outages, and the rain has started up again! While the rain took a break today, Eowyn, Grammy, Grampa and Mom all went for a walk up the road to check on the bridge. We doubt we'll be going anywere for a couple days. Here are some pics...

A flooded bridge up the street from our house.



Eowyn in front of that bridge.





My feet on the yellow line! With water past my ankles, in the shallow part. Further up the street, the water was mid-thigh, on a grown man, who was checking on his flooded house.

Blend it for Baby

I have started making Ewoyn's baby food! It's very fun really. I made Broccoli, Green Beans, Peas and a mix of the three in about 45 minutes, the other day. That was enough for, probably a couple weeks...I blended the veggies, put them in ice trays, let them set and popped them in freezer bags. It was great. I have a few recipes that I'm looking forward to trying next week after I pick up the organic ingredients. A citrus couscous that I think I may make extra of and serve with steak for christopher and I. The recipe came from this fabulous book:



The book doesn't just contain yummy recipes, it also has helpful information in regards to feeding your child, like what foods contain the best 'stuff' for babies, as well as, what not to serve them...like Honey. You should not serve honey to children under the age of 1 because it contains a bacteria that could be harmful to the young immune systems of infants...why have I never heard that? Dogs not eating chocolate, that's everywhere, but honey and babies...well, now you know.

Nunchuck Skills, Computer Hacking Skills, Photoshop Skills...

For Easter, I decided to do some pretty photos of Eowyn in a fancy dress holding some flowers and put them together for the grandma's. Well, Eowyn just wanted to eat the flowers, so I had to get creative.

Not bad, if I do say so myself...

First Trip to the Park

Yesterday was a beautiful day, sun shining, birds singing, kind of day. We had been driving a lot and Eowyn was becoming disenchanted with her fabulous car seat. So spying a park along our journies, Grammy, Eowyn and I stopped for a little break! Eowyn had a great time. She loved the swing, and was very proud of herself, when she climbed the stairs (with help from mommy), to go down the slide. It was a lot of fun to explore a park from Eowyn's perspective! This is going to be a fun summer.

8 months!

Eowyn is 8 months old today!

Christopher had the day off from work, so we caught up on some things around the house, then ventured to Newington for a nice afternoon walk, capping the day off with a fun trip to Barnes and Noble. Eowyn helped Christopher gather copies of "Dracula" for the kids at school to borrow, as they are reading it this semester in the 10th grade. She browsed Knitting books with me...then to the cafe for some reading of kids books!

We found a wonderful series of books by James Mayhew. Katie is the main character and she takes trips to the art museum with her nap prone Grandma...Grandma naps and Katie explores the artwork, up close and personal. Not in a mischevious, destructive way that generally happens in books when the adult in charge naps. Rather she becomes part of the piece and has adventures with the other subjects. They are adorable. The store only had two different books in the series of 5, but we found copies of the rest on Amazon.com. I'll be adding them to "Eowyn's Library", since we did buy the whole series. They are amazing!

Right after this surreal image of Daddy and daughter reading together in Barnes and Noble was taken, Eowyn promptly started trying to eat the book...They are reading "Seen Art" by Jon Scieszka...the author of such greats as "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" and "Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales". "Seen Art is another trip to the Art Museum, specifically MOMA, for the main character. Yes, we added that one to Eowyn's Collection, too.