sleepy bear

After an exciting day in town Schuyler is more than ready for naptime.

goofing around in town

While her dad was getting a haircut, Schuyler and her mom hung out around town.

sing along

bike

Getting ready for Bermuda's roads takes practice so we thought we would get Schuyler going early with her own plastic moped... it's a little big for her but she can push herself along. She calls it her "dike" which is why we don't take it out in public with us.

play ball!

this wasn't a gift

boxing day

The above car is nice but it has nothing on the toddler-sized "real" car that Kim and Ward gave Schuyler for Christmas which she gamely drives around their condo... usually backwards because she hasn't figure out how to walk the car along with her feet so she just pushes herself backward.

Driving lessons: T minus 14 years... God help us all.

Schuyler's Choice - which doll will she choose: The loyal but (let's face it) cartoonish Poupée or the new and more realistic Dee Dee.

dip dip

Auntie Ardleigh had a lot of fun with her god child and did the kinds of things that god parents are supposed to do i.e. get the kid all soaked and sandy and then hand her back to her parents.

beachy

to the beach

It took having a child (and an invitation from Ardleigh) for me to spend Christmas Day at the beach. We'd gone swimming on Christmas at the beach when I was growing up but never really hung out. Most of the ex-pats in Bermuda go to the beach on the big day and now I really get it.

dee dee

Lucy added a new member to our household in the form of a doll for Schuyler to whom Schuyler immediately gave the name "dee dee" and with whom Schuyler was pretty enthralled for most of the day.

S changing Dee Dee's diaper...

feeding Dee Dee...

Making sure Dee Dee is warm enough.

xmas

my girl(s)

christmas car

So we were at Ardleigh's and the boys decided to demonstrate their new remote control car. At first, Schuyler was intrigued and then the non-human, non-animal machine moved...

and scared the doo doo out of her...

...so she ran to the safety of her mother's arms...

...and mama patted the car to show it was friendly...

Schuyler followed her mother's lead and made friends with the foreign creature.

christmas at scarrington

Thanks to Auntie Ardleigh and Uncle Jamie, Schuyler can now join Mitchell and Walker on the back nine.

A lovely brunch with Ardleigh, Jamie, Mitchell and Walker... yummmmm. Thank you, guys!

live christmas action

These are really for posterity and probably only interesting to the parents but take a look if you like... they are packed with actionless sequences.

christmas food

Grandma Tobe's care package of faux food for Schuyler makes her "shopping" excursions around the house a lot more rewarding.

merry christmas!

This kind of felt like Schuyler's first Christmas because she is so much more of a person. In fact, in keeping with cliché #456 of parenting, it is simply miraculous to witness the soul of the baby grow into an aware, cognizant, tiny human with language, thoughts, opinions (!) and interests. To watch her vocabulary and comprehension lock into place and grow each day is mind blowing.

A card from Pop Pop & Carol was just as much fun to open as any present for our little cub... her reading of the card consisted of more of a taste test than a vocabulary test but still we live and learn.