Here are some of my favorite pictures from that trip:
Adelaida was just learning to walk and enjoyed pushing the toy cart across the living room.
Elizabeth is a natural "mom" and Adelaida has the disposition of a perfect younger sibling! When Elizabeth saw that Adelaida was standing near the toy cart, she wanted to push her. Like a trooper, Adelaida smiled when I sat her in the cart and enjoyed being pushed around by Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, Sarah, and Adelaida play at the music table together.
We didn't bring a highchair for Adelaida, so Laura generously let us use their highchair, which was at the time between children. Adelaida was so small that she could barely get her elbows above the height of the tray to feed herself!
Elizabeth and Laura at the table.
Happy Sarah!
We had some problems with Adelaida's diapers just before Christmas and had sent them back to the manufacturer, so Adelaida was in disposable diapers for this trip. I had optimistically packed mostly 9-month clothes for her (she was, after all, already 12 months old!), and the combination of the smaller disposable diapers and the too-large clothes resulted in several "wardrobe malfunctions." The first occurred on our first day with Richard and Laura, when Adelaida was playing in the living room and I looked over at her and realized her pants were around her ankles! I didn't have smaller clothes with me, so rigged a belt out of ribbon and used large safety pins to take in the sides of her jeans. It helped tremendously, but when we returned to Albuquerque I had to return her 6-to-9-month clothes to the "don't fit yet" bag and put her back into her 3-to-6-month clothes, which I was really getting tired of! (Note: she has since grown quite a bit, and all of the 3-to-6-month clothes are now packed away! She is wearing mostly 6-to-9-month clothes now, but we also have her 12-month clothes mixed in and some of them fit her pretty well.)
All three girls took a bath together that included "bubble machine." Adelaida ended up with some bubbles on her face, which Elizabeth thought was really funny.
Mamaw with Sarah and Elizabeth.
Adelaida, Laura, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Richard on "Christmas" day.
Dale and Sarah read a book together.
Dale and Adelaida admire the fish at the aquarium.
We had a great visit with Adelaida's Aunt, Uncle, cousins, and Mamaw, and hope to continue the semi-annual trips so that Adelaida gets to spend a lot of time with her cousins!
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What happened with your BumGenius?
ReplyDeleteWe somehow purchased all of our diapers during the eight-month period in which BumGenius was using an off-brand velcro-like material for their laundry tabs (just the "loop" material on the inside back of the diapers, not the "hook" material or the "loop" material on the front of the diapers, fortunately). The off-brand velcro-like material didn't hold the "hook" part of the velcro, so our diapers came out of every laundry cycle strung together like a daisy chain. BumGenius has a one-year, must-have-a-receipt exchange policy, and most of our diapers had been purchased for us as gifts (no receipt) for our baby shower (more than one year prior to this, although we had been using them for less than one year). Fortunately, they were really understanding and knew that the laundry tabs didn't hold, so happily exchanged all of our diapers for us at no charge. Once I learned about their exchange policy, I was eager to get the exchange done ASAP, so Adelaida wore disposables the entire holiday vacation. But, she's back to BumGenius now and we're very happy with them.
ReplyDeleteMost, but not all, of ours have that same problem. Guess we'll have to dig out our gift receipts...
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