J Squared: October 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Raking Leaves

The leaves are falling in Arlington so Anne and Daddy raked leaves together while Mommy got her hair done. Anne really loves leaves and is surprising quite good with a rake. Here are some pictures from the day.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Boston in October

It is October and here is a picture of Boston from the park just a couple of blocks from our house. The fall colors have arrived.

Anne on the Slide

We also took Anne down a big slide.

Anne in the Park

It was a beautiful autumn day today so we decided to take Anne to the park. She is really starting to enjoy a variety of activities that involve movement. Here is a video of her in the swing.

Anne's First Halloween Costume

Jody's colleague at work, Janet, gave Anne this very cute costume for Halloween. After several attempts we finally got the "money" shot of Anne with a big smile.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Jump Around!

How to describe this video...? Once your child learns to smile it quickly becomes an all consuming quest as a parent to find new and innovative ways to make them smile. Anne has been smiling for about a month now and is beginning to learn how to giggle. It recently came to our attention that Anne really likes to Jump (i.e. parent holds her and simulates a jump). Daddy took this to a whole new level in the video below. Not only does Anne smile, but she even demonstrates a brief giggle around 32 sec into the clip. Unfortunately we could only post an abbreviated version of the video, but I think you will find it as entertaining as we did.