Mrs. Busybody

Here's just a minute and a half of Freja being Freja. As you see in the beginning, and much to my delight, she works hard at putting all of her toys away (some of the time, anyway). She's learning to wave, she plays the drum and as previously mentioned a few times, she LOVES to read books. Enjoy.

Mrs. Books

So Jan & I have a habit of calling Freja "Mrs. XX," where XX is whatever she's up to. Like if we're feeding her puffs she is Mrs. Puffs, and if we're putting her in her pajamas she is Mrs. PJs, etc. Here she is entertaining herself (we are so lucky) in her room, being Mrs. Books. She loves to get them ALL out of the basket, turn the pages, and babble-slash-read her books. It's very cute, more often than not the book is upside down, but never you mind she is reading it anyway!

Freja & I are enjoying my first week of being a SAHM. We went to story time at the library on Monday, music class this morning and met some friends in the park this afternoon. Breaking up with work has definitely been great so far! Being here playing with Freja and going on walks around the 'hood beat sitting in a cubicle any day. She is a great little co-worker.

Freja's Room Redux

As most of you know Freja's room has been our office nook off the living room for the past 10 1/2 months. Sometime after Thanksgiving we rearranged our living room & dining room to make the dining room Freja's playroom.  It gave us one big babyproofed space for her to roam around in.  Yesterday the transformation from dining room to baby's room became complete, after A LOT of work from me & the boss.  We are both exhausted and sore today - are we getting old or something? - and excited to have a dedicated office again.  Today's video gives a little tour of her new room.  As you can see, she's pretty much mastered "Uh oh!"  Now if you'll excuse me, I need a massage....

Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays everyone. We are getting so excited about Freja's first Christmas. Presents are stacking up under our tree, and we are certain at this age that just like our cats, Freja will love the boxes and wrapping paper more than what's inside. She's wowing us lately with pulling herself up to a standing position, and even starting to move her feet a little bit. OF course, she wows us just by being her cute little self most days. xo

Funny Baby

Freja is doing this new thing lately where she crinkles up her nose, and sometimes she does it then sort of snorts like when she is excited about something, but now she also says "Nah-nah-nah" when she is doing it, and it's just the silliest thing.  This kid is a nut.

Today Freja & I previewed a Music Together class.  Music Together is a nationwide organization that offers family music classes for mixed ages encouraging young kids to experiment with music.  She was probably the youngest one in the class today, and really seemed to enjoy watching the big kids play the drums, shake bells and dance around. We are going to sign up for a 10-week-long session that starts in mid-January.

Ho Ho Ho!

Freja met Santa at one of two Christmas parties we went to today. Needless to say, the girl is a trooper! I'm taking her to another holiday party at the office tomorrow, and one more on Friday. Thank goodness we have plenty of cute holiday outfits like this one!

Babyproofed

Hi everyone, here are a few quick pics of our former dining room now Freja's play room. We spent all day Saturday rearranging furniture, moving plants, covering outlets etc so that we have one safe spot to put Freja down without worrying (too much) about her getting in to something she shouldn't. Our former living room is now a combo living/dining room and as you can see there was plenty of room for the dining room table once we took the leaf out. To top off our busy day we put up the Christmas tree. I figure once we take the tree down the room will seem so much bigger.

Is it just me or does "babyproofed" sound like we are protecting ourselves from the baby?