Baby Faire’s blog

She waves back when you wave at her. She figured out how to drink out of the sippy cup without help — “Oh, you tip it up!”. She even imitates the way I will pinch the ‘nipple’ part after she drinks to let air back in past the valve too — pretty smart if I do say so.

She’s getting tall, too. She stood up and grabbed this off of the windowsill in the kitchen where it was ripening. *Placeholder for avocado pictures.*

Her current record for standing without holding onto anything is about .5 seconds. She’s usually bouncing and dancing around, so she knocks herself over.

Faire sings along with music — sort of sing-songy squeals, but she will hit the same note you are singing and sometimes grin as if she knows she got it right. Seriously! If I sing one note for her she will squeal along with me, then I adjust to a higher or lower note she will adjust her tone up or down too.

She dances too. If I put on a CD she usually only dance to the first track or so, then seems to tune it out, but radio jingles, buskers in the subway, hip-hop, country, whatever.

If you ask for a kiss now, Faire will put her mouth on your proffered face. Well, sometimes you have to kiss her first and then ask. She giggles if you make an exaggerated kissy noise while she does it.

She’s been ‘kissing’ things at her own initiation for a couple days now, I just didn’t realize that’s what she was doing until yesterday she got all up in my face and did it several times right after Danny and I kissed.

Faire is doing a lot of time cruising circles around the coffee table these days. Her crawl is still pretty slow, and is really more sort of a butt-scootch. Thing is she really wants to put her feet on the ground, so she ends up on one knee. Actually, come to think of it, it looks an awful lot like Reagan’s silly knee-up crawl.Pictures shortly. 

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Me and Faire are home alone this week while D is in Cali for Y! meetings. I just put a new small set of pictures up on Flickr (link below). We were just playing with the camera in my computer. She thought seeing pictures of herself come up on the screen was pretty interesting.

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This seems to be the only picture I have from Halloween. That’s my friend Nomi from the playgroup holding Faire at our Halloween party. She’s wearing a hand-me-down bee costume from Reagan, which is about as cute a costume as I can imagine for a little bub.

I fondly remember lots of home-made-costume makin’ growing up, but until Faire is old enough to understand dress-up and Halloween, and get excited about her own costume ideas, I so don’t need to go there.

We went to a playgroup halloween party on the 30th, and then we went to a kids Halloween parade on Halloween itself. It was a couple hundred(?) kids all dressed up in their costumes, with their parents, and we met on a street corner and followed a pair of bagpipers up the street a few blocks to a park where the kids could play.

Oh, I was also really curious what kids do for trick-or-treating in the city: they go around to all the businesses. Walking back to the subway on Broadway after the parade was a total madhouse.