Nine Months of Baby Chandler

Nine Month Fun Facts

• Mobility - Lots and lots of pulling up, and a little bit of pushing that white chair around as seen in the above picture (actually, my foot is in the bottom left hand corner of the picture, holding the chair in place).
• Sleeping - so much better! A little sleep training goes along way.
• Teeth - nope.  Mark said the other day that this kid is going to walk before she starts teething.  I don't think it's going to come to that but it's going to be close.
• Obsessions - Still interested in the refrigerator, but the dishwasher is so much better.  So many more things to pull out and chew on.
• Tricks - Waving and clapping.  The waving seems more random than communicative, but it's still darn cute.

Life with Chandler

Pulling up?

Check.

Check.

Check.

Check.

A little more Halloween fun...

...at yet another farm.

This area is lousy with them.  This is the seventh one featured on this blog I can think of off the top of my head.

I love it.

A few days before Halloween, Frances, Chandler and I went to the Newton Community Farm to participate in some seasonal activities.

Frances made a paper jack-o-lantern and...

...a spider.

We also sampled several kinds of apples and listened to Halloween stories.  I couldn't get her interested in the apple cider press, but that just left more cider for me to drink.  That seems to be a theme lately...

Thirty-Seven Weeks

Lantern Parade

Big excitement at the Hayward-Uptons!

A local organization, Spontaneous Celebrations, a.k.a. Those Hippies, puts on an annual parade around Jamaica Plain's pond just before Halloween.  All the kids make lanterns, get dressed up and walk around the pond, or as far around the pond as their parents care to herd them.  We didn't attempt it last year, but this year Frances was all for it.

She went as a Fairy/Ballerina.  Think lots of pink and girlyness.  Old mom did her best to get Frances's hair into a bun and then introduced Frances to blush.  

Frances liked the blush.

She was just a touch pleased with herself.  She originally wore the tutu to my friend Tara's wedding, when she was seven months old.  

Chandler was a flower.  They aren't visible in the picture, but her shoes had ladybugs on them.  If you could see the ladybugs, you'd totally understand how Chandler looked like a flower.

After getting all dressed up, we headed over to the Pond.  There was quite a crowd, but the light was fading fast so we didn't get a lot of pictures.  This is Mark and Chandler just before heading around the pond.

One last shot of the Fairy/Ballerina and her lantern.

It was really fun and a little chaotic.  Think about gobs of people wandering around in the dark with costumes and candles.  Next year, I'll try to bring hot beverages.  Hot coffee with a shot of Kahlua cider would hit the spot.

Life with Frances

I asked Frances to help arrange the tatter tots for baking.  They started out spread around the baking sheet.  Then Frances fixed them.

I think she's related to Mark Upton.

Thirty-Six Weeks