We all survived yet another day

Her appetite seems to be picking up and Kat has been great about this new routine of being buckled in EVERYWHERE. Shopping cart at Target? Buckled. Going anywhere in the car? Buckled. High chair for meals? Buckled. Maiden voyage in the awesome new stroller, BOB? Buckled. And in all of the buckling today, she cried just twice, in the car, I'm pretty sure when hungry both times (well, she ate immediately afterward, so I'm assuming that she was hungry).

It was in the 90s here today with a heat advisory and scattered thunderstorms forecast (I have seen nor head none). WTH? This is NOT the Seattle that we left a few days ago. At 4:30 we left to pick up the twins and the car thermometer was reading 95. The Guatemalan baby seemed unfazed, though she was definitely sweaty, especially in her car seat. Daddy was sweating his butt just changing her. I closed up the house first thing this AM (and shockingly, I was up at that hour for some reason) to capture any cool air and try to shut out the day's heat. It was 87 or so upstairs. I'm not sure if that is better than the alternative or not. It makes the 80 first floor seem like air conditioning.

After picking up the idiot twins, we had our first family outing. To the dogpark, of course. Very quickly. We were there long enough for the boys to throw themselves in the river and then to run back to the air conditioned Rav4. The boys were both nice to Kat. Well, they didn't show a ton of interest, but they also didn't react hostilely, so that's good news. It'll probably be a few weeks before we have Ben babysit, however. They did, however, immediately associate her presence with the scattered Cheerios laying around and they seemed to like that.

Poor Kat, she's very frustrated in not yet being able to crawl. She gets close, but can't get her knees bent at the same time that her arms are stretched under her. It appears to be a very frustrating experience for her. She also doesn't show any inclination to feed herself (she has people for that). That's not true, she does try to reach in and for the baby food jar and intercept the spoon, but aside from that, it didn't seem to occur to her that she could put the banana pieces, nor the Cheerios, in her mouth. Not yet anyway....

Here are some pics, one from last night- the best we could do at the Seattle airport as proof that the poor little baby was, at long last, in the US!!!! And the video- I did NOT capture the full frenzy of her jumping, despite repeated efforts. The zeal of her jumping and the flying hair, the manic smile and the screeching are unbelievably funny (she was bouncing in that thing, rabidly except for when I had the camera out for 1/2 hour or more. Baby aerobics) .



I know I cut Dan's head off, but I liked everything else about the picture

I think Boo was in the water...