"Labor" Day

Labor Day was anything but Labor -- we took the kids to a local playground (one they hadn't visited a couple of hundred times) and they had fun on the new equipment. Marissa's favorite part, of course, was sampling the tasty pebbles. Though she did enjoy trying to climb up the tube slide, as you can see.

What is it about her that is so much more exploratory than Lindsey was? She likes to splash in the toilet water, eat the dog's kibble, splash in HIS drinking water, and otherwise get into things she's not supposed to get into. We've found more than one toy dropped into a vase by our fireplace.

We've had to babyproof in ways we never knew existed. Lindsey was never this adventuresome -- that COULD explain Lindsey's clinging to my leg during a neighborhood get together this evening. I think she's intimidated by all the other kids, most of whom are older than her, running around and being so familiar with each other. That's the drawback of daycare and two working parents -- she doesn't get to know the neighborhood kids very well.




We stopped by this evening and visited a neighbor of ours who just had Baby #2 -- a girl. She was 9 lbs 8 oz at birth (C-section, in case you're wondering) and in general is a big baby. But in comparison to Marissa and to their eldest who is one of Lindsey's best playmates, she is so tiny and so helpless. I had forgotten how little they are and how sweet they smell. Every time we go to their house I hold her as much as possible. I know we're done having children(just look at the bags under my eyes to understand how very "done" we are!) but I just love holding those little tiny babies! It goes so fast!


Okay, last thing, completely unrelated. My cousin in Atlanta sent me this link to a homemade video on YouTube.com from a group from the UK called "OK Go." It's about the most entertaining thing I've seen lately -- whoever came up with the idea of this as a video clip was a genius -- they are making big waves, breaking into the US market, based on this viral video clip alone. Check it out, you'll be amazed:

I haven't quite figured out how to put links in, so cut and paste this into your browser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92IWqopETfI&mode=related&search=