sun's up rooster, where's your doodle doo?

it's been a busy week.

first there was this:

and because of that, we did this (swaddle free!):

and finally, there was this:

tada

sleuth sloth

this video of kristen bell is hilarious! i have never seen a movie with her in it but what a quirky person! watch until the end..

in that dream i'm as old as the mountains

ankle weights under socks really help strengthen baby's legs. jk. see em's ankle weights here, made out of fat and really tight skin.

fun house

this is a video of esther margaret talking and playing (and being mesmerized by the strap on my camera).

this is a video of esther margaret watching the video of her talking and playing and being mesmerized by my camera strap.

i actually have a video of her watching the video of her watching the video of her talking and playing and being mesmerized by my camera strap but it was basically, mostly, exactly the same. the primitive signs of recognition are really weird.

sleep sacked out

five out of seven days, this is what i see on the monitor when i wake up in the morning. she used to wake up in this position, her nose half an inch away from the crib bumper, and call out to us (presumably because she didn't expect to wake up with her entire field of vision filled with mustard colored matelasse). but now she sleeps away like a little hibernating bear cub, her little lips and eyelids fluttering.
the other two out of seven, she's usually on her side, like this. i know it's not technically remarkable, but it is a very wonderful thing that this little seven month old human has developed preferences, like sleeping on her right side with her head tucked down.
*yes she is still swaddled
**yes we have tried!!
***yes more than once!
****no, not forever.

i believe in memories, they look so pretty when i sleep

this is jeremy in 1990 climbing a wall near the suspension bridge. he was 14, crazy about climbing and even used to make his own climbing equipment (naturally). his friend, nathan, was just a fledgling photographer then (he was around 16) and took this shot. he is now a professional photographer. jeremy was always doing crazy things and nathan was around to capture a lot of it. someone recently called nathan and said they'd found a box of his photos and negatives and this was one that found its way back to him after all of these years.

cousins

this a photo of evan on his first birthday.
this is esther margaret at 7 months.
i think they bear so much resemblance, do you??