It was beautiful last weekend—hitting 60 degrees both days. So, of course, we threw home-in-time-for-nap-caution to the wind and spent most of the weekend outside. We went to the library (the main branch of the Cambridge Public Library was recently redone and is GORGEOUS). We went to playgrounds and parks. We walked. A 4.5 hour walk on Saturday, and a 6 hour walk on Sunday! Both days we left as soon as Jas woke up from his morning nap, and didn’t bother rushing home to get him down for his afternoon nap (usually at 2). He sort of slept in the stroller in the afternoon, and had to go to bed EARLY both days, but it was so worth it.
The library is beautiful. The entire top floor is the children’s room, and it’s full of windows and light and books, and hampsters (Tallulah & Blanche), and puppets and puzzles and blocks. Jasper loved it. He ran around, and sat on the small couches.
This is him piled high with stuffed animals. They had a huge giraffe puppet (giraffes are his favorite). And a huge Curious George monkey, which he loved.
This morning we were reading a Curious George book and he started saying “Georges”. Yes, as if in french (something like “Zhorzh”).
At the playground, he LOVED the swings, as always. He was a little unsure of the slide, though, and much preferred to sit at the bottom and eat woodchips.
More photos on Flickr. We’re bad at blogging, and excellent at putting photos up.
His vocabulary is expanding exponentially. I don’t know where it came from, but he just repeats everything now, and is gradually using the words on his own (without prompting). New words:
- apple (appah)
- waffle (wap)
- George (zhorzh)
- Dori (Doh)
- Up (uppp)
Oh, and two more teeth, bringing the grand total up to 12! The top two molars have started to poke through. Molars are not fun, he reports. Not fun for us either, since he typically informs us that said molars hurt at 2am.
I saw a story on that library, probably in the Globe. It sounds like a wonderful place!