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February 26, 2005
A Fun Day
This afternoon Jamison, Alexis and I drove over to Great Falls, Virginia to have a late lunch with one of Jamison's coworkers, his wife and their 9 month old son. Yesterday I kept telling Alexis we were going to see Rob, Patty, Baby Sam and Sadie (their dog). She'd sit and say, "Baby Sam! Baby Sam!" Today however she just would point at him and say, "Baby!" and refused to actually say Sam.
Alexis amused me with Sam today because she would go along behind Sam as he was crawling and put her hands under his bottom like she was afraid he was going to fall down. It was cute! She also would show Sam how his toys worked as if they were hers and he had never seen them before. I think Sam thought she was invading his space, but he was pretty laid back about it! I meant to take my camera to get a picture of Alexis and Sam together, but I forgot to take it with me.
Lately Alexis has developed the new skill (I use the term skill very loosely!) of squealing in delight at the top of her lungs. She often stands in front of the fish tank in awe and shrieks with delight! (At first the fish were TERRIFIED of Alexis. Any time she got close to the tank they'd all hide. Now they just look at her in a fishy way as if to say, "Oh look, the loud, jumpy creature is back!) When she saw Sadie she went nuts! She started squealing, in that oh so annoying and not endearing way, and saying rapidly, "Dog! Dog! Dog!" She clearly loved Sadie, although she wasn't too keen on her licking her face, but she liked petting her.
Even though we didn't get there until 2:30 or so, around 4:15 we headed home. Alexis does not enjoy being in the car that much. Her tolerance for car trips is about 30 minutes at most. Sometimes you can stretch it out to around an hour if you're creative in distracting her, so we figured we couldn't stretch it much longer. We actually only spent a couple of hours at Patty and Rob's, but we had a lot of fun none the less.
Posted by Daffodil at February 26, 2005 7:54 PM
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