Adriana's Jabu
My sister Adriana made a lovely picture-movie-story about her horse Jabu. You can also see it at www.adrianadakin.com. We can't wait for the Creekhouse baby! Baby Dakin-Johnson is due to enter the world on Thanksgiving day.
We have a movie clip of Iola at two months and one week here, taken October 15th.
A couple more updates: we went on a field trip with the Abu Dhabi natural history group last weekend. It was just a half-day trip into the sabhka (salt flats), but it totally exhausted us. We saw fossilized mangrove roots in the middle of the desert. A woman found part of a fossil ostrich egg. Iola slept in her blue sling from Eunice. It was so nice to be out looking at the same salsola that grows in the arroyos in eastern California, rocks that haven't been broken by machines, and sand blown by the wind. We didn't see any animals except pretty little flying bugs. Some other folks saw a bird. We drove home and took turns napping and taking care of Iola, who had napped while we were walking in the sun. Our lives are circumscribed by her, but she is getting more confident about going out with us and seeing new things. Today, for instance, she and I went to the mall, my favorite place to go. She sat in her little $3 stroller from the Anglican church thrift store and watched as I went through Ikea and Carrefour, ate a sandwich at La Brioche, and had my legs waxed at a salon. (I nursed her while getting my legs waxed, and she slept through the sandwich, but still.)
We have pretty urban lives, that's just the reality of it, much as I want to be a nature girl. I'm delving into it, signing up for all the things you can only do in cities. Or maybe you can only do them in this baby-friendly city. We've been through a baby massage course; we're in mommies and babies yoga class (no, she doesn't do the lotus position); we go to "bumps and babes" meetings every week. I heard there is a baby swimming class at the equestrian center, and a music class called boogie babies at the mall... on the horizon. Everything involves driving, and since she forgot how to use her pacifier driving is a bit stressful. It'd sure be nice to walk somewhere.
Fossilized mangrove roots, about 10,000 years old.
We have a movie clip of Iola at two months and one week here, taken October 15th.
A couple more updates: we went on a field trip with the Abu Dhabi natural history group last weekend. It was just a half-day trip into the sabhka (salt flats), but it totally exhausted us. We saw fossilized mangrove roots in the middle of the desert. A woman found part of a fossil ostrich egg. Iola slept in her blue sling from Eunice. It was so nice to be out looking at the same salsola that grows in the arroyos in eastern California, rocks that haven't been broken by machines, and sand blown by the wind. We didn't see any animals except pretty little flying bugs. Some other folks saw a bird. We drove home and took turns napping and taking care of Iola, who had napped while we were walking in the sun. Our lives are circumscribed by her, but she is getting more confident about going out with us and seeing new things. Today, for instance, she and I went to the mall, my favorite place to go. She sat in her little $3 stroller from the Anglican church thrift store and watched as I went through Ikea and Carrefour, ate a sandwich at La Brioche, and had my legs waxed at a salon. (I nursed her while getting my legs waxed, and she slept through the sandwich, but still.)
We have pretty urban lives, that's just the reality of it, much as I want to be a nature girl. I'm delving into it, signing up for all the things you can only do in cities. Or maybe you can only do them in this baby-friendly city. We've been through a baby massage course; we're in mommies and babies yoga class (no, she doesn't do the lotus position); we go to "bumps and babes" meetings every week. I heard there is a baby swimming class at the equestrian center, and a music class called boogie babies at the mall... on the horizon. Everything involves driving, and since she forgot how to use her pacifier driving is a bit stressful. It'd sure be nice to walk somewhere.
Fossilized mangrove roots, about 10,000 years old.
Iola is sooo cute in the video! John sings well of course. Cool for her.
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Gabe and I were singing along with John as he sang to Iola. Love her wild hair, but best is her smile, and how she watches John. More, more!
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Cool picture of the mangrove roots! I guess that was from a much wetter time there?
Iola is very alert. Fun little movie. Leif's ears perked up when I played it.
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Iola is a true Rockstar! Her hair is absolutely crazy looking in that video, and shes very stimulated by the musical tones of her daddy! Right on! Rock on!
And, love those mangrove fossils!
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