Chez Mui Richard

So what’s the youngest age of a baby behind the wheel?  Check out the personality behind that smile!  If I had to imagine what she was thinking at that exact moment, it would be something like “Mommy, can I borrow the keys?”

Chloe took a trip up to New Paltz to meet her new friend, Meghan.

Meghan had only seen baby Chloe via Facetime and was super excited to finally get to meet her in person.  Babysitter in the making!  Meghan was very attentive and we had a great time in the park despite the melodic symphony the SUNY New Paltz college kids were playing in the background. Chloe had her first go around in the kiddie swing and while it was WAY too big for her, she sat up nice and steady and we got a big ol’ smile out of it!

So it was just a matter of time before Chloe got the full Brooklyn Heights pizza experience at one of our favorite pizza joints.  At least our favorite in the winter season when there are no tourists.  Or on early weekdays in the summer when we know we can avoid the tourists.  Basically as long as we can avoid the tourists, we’re happy, ha ha.  Chloe got a nice carriage ride home in Mommy’s baby carrier and while I tried to cover her with the convenient hoodie, Daddy snapped these two great pictures of these BIG EYES staring out through the side windows.  Silly baby.  What am I going to do with her?

You know what the best part of the weekends are?  Staying in pajamas till Mommy and Daddy are ready to get up!  And going to Grandma’s house and going food shopping in all the stores and seeing all these new things, it’s incredibly exhausting to keep up with which is why I crash in the car on the way home (to Mommy’s pleasure).  Here are some pics from the weekend…

Spent Friday with Auntie Tina and Uncle David at their beautiful new home. Didn’t take a dip in their pool because it was a little sunny for Baby Chloe but will definitely take pictures of that when that does happen! But we did get some nice closeups on the lounge chair, even took some with a nice fade. Baby Chloe is just so picture friendly!

As Chloe gets older and her features change, we’re constantly comparing her to see if there’s any family resemblance.  What do you think?  Here’s Chloe at 2 months and here’s Mommy at 2 months… when we go to France in October, we’re going to try and dig up a younger family photo of Daddy so we can compare as well.

Other than the baldness factor, I don’t really know that there’s any more resemblance.  Maybe Grandpa was right and I took the wrong baby home.  I’ll tell you what though, there is DEFINITELY some resemblance to Myrtle the Turtle, let me tell you!

 

So I took my first crack at making homemade baby food this past Sunday.  Went to the grocery store and saw some nice yams and bought the smallest one I could get my hands on.  Also got some extra green beans for baby Chloe.  Debated between roasting the yam in the oven or steaming it and decided against having my oven on for 45 minutes at 400 degrees when it is bloody 85 degrees outside and some crazy NYC summer humidity. So steaming is the way we went.  And then debated between the blender and the food processor.  Trial and error dictated that the food processor was the way to go since all the puree just got stuck at the bottom of the blender.  Needless to say, you can imagine what my kitchen looked like an hour later with various pots and pans strewn across the place.  =0)

Other than that, everything turned out great!  We all tried the puree and it was decent; pretty much what I think you’d get from a can of baby food.  Dumped it into my ice trays and into the freezer they went.  Note to self, must remember that I only have two ice trays for the baby and so I should not be overzealous and gung ho and make a ton of stuff for her because, hello, all of it won’t fit in the ice trays!

Daddy took some pictures earlier today of baby Chloe enjoying her green beans.  I don’t know what’s funnier: her silly face as she happily eats her veggies or the green mess all over her chin.  Or maybe it’s the look of adventure she gives me when she’s watching me prepare dinner.  I don’t know how Daddy got the mushroom and broccoli in her hands, but look at that face!  And that drool!  This little girl is just too much fun to be around.

Some new pictures from the weekend … and yes, that is Miss Chloe standing up all by herself leaning against the sofa as Grandpa watches from a safe distance, she has got such strong legs!  Scratch crawling, we’ll go straight to walking!

My latest favorite picture of Chloe is this black and white photo taken of her sitting in her car seat. She is such a wonderful baby, I really cannot complain, she’s so peaceful and always at ease; and I think it comes through in the photos of her. She is so photogenic I swear, definitely did not get that from her mama. Those thigh rolls, though, yup, those are definitely from me! HAHA

And the fun with solid foods begins. We’ll start with two weeks of Old-Fashioned Quaker Oats and then veggies and then fruits. Baby Chloe seems to be taking to the new texture pretty well, no trouble swallowing the mix which is good. I like the last picture best – if I had to put a thought bubble on that one, it would read “ma, what is this goop?”.