the haps

It's been a busy week as usual around these parts... getting geared up for the summer with our first family vacay and our impending trip South o' the Border. A few milestones of note.

First, goodbye baby tub! Emilia has had an unnatural fear/phobia of the tub for as long as we can remember. She'll only get in our big tub if Marcus or I get in to it. Her fear of the tub was such that, in Virginia, we had to go out and buy her a toddler tub at IKEA and leave it there. Ridiculous. This week I decided enough was enough. She's now successfully bathed in the big tub all week and has discovered that a) it's not nearly as scary as she thought it was and b) it's a whole lot of fun because there's more water to splash.

Secondly, naptime. I've got Emilia so trained about when it's time for her to take a nap that it's almost ridiculous. At this point she'll pretty much start grabbing her naptime accessories (favorite blankey du jour, taggie, and baby) and start getting comfy. Today, she was quietly playing in her room just before naptime. When I walked in, this was what I saw...

her favorite 'bija (for cobija = blanket) is one that Tia Lo brought her from Costa Rica. Here she's trying to swaddle baby.

still struggling with the swaddling.

snuggled on her chair reading baby one of her alphabet books - the letter P.

We're off to Sunset Beach (on the border between the Carolinas) for the long weekend. Happy Summer to one and all!!!!