Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Milestone: First Gift Opening

I have a few different posts fermenting in my brain right now. An 8 month review of cloth diapering. A manifesto about the superiority of Classic Pooh to Disney Pooh. Ruminations about the bittersweetness of Mother's Day. A video of the crawling, baby cartwheels and pulling up that are happening around here. A picture of the first tooth emerging. Etc.

Instead, for now, I'm going to offer some photos of a silly milestone. Evie's first time opening a present on her own. We were in Minnesota this past weekend for the wedding of one of J's cousins. While we were there, Evie got to meet her Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa for the first time. These are J's dad's parents. They were ecstatic to see her, and brought her a present. It's the first time we've encouraged her to open a gift herself, and we got a taste of what her first birthday may be like.

Confused but curious at first:

Cool, I got a book with a blue monster on the front. I've never watched Sesame Street so I have no idea who he is:

I wonder if this book would make a good hat?


Cool, I got a teething ring. My teeth hurt a lot these days. Thanks guys, I needed this!


Until Mom gets around to putting it in the fridge, I wonder if it would make a good hat?

5 comments:

  1. That is so cute! Does everything become a hat??

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  2. Haha!! So cute! Love the hat. (It's the cookie monster. Or did they change him to the vegetable monster? I can't remember if they officially did that or not.)

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  3. She looks so little sitting there! But she sure seems to know what she's doing in the present wrapping department! I love the way she truly looks at each thing... did she even play with the paper? Or is she simply beyond that and going straight to the good stuff...?

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  4. Adorable!

    And I totally agree with you! Our nursery is going to be Classic Pooh.

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  5. +Yaya: yep, everything goes on the head these days.

    +Safire: :) I meant that Evie doesn't know who he is, but I do! :)

    +NewestNewsome: She didn't play much with the paper, I think because I've let her play with tissue paper before so it wasn't new.

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