October 28th, 2010 by brendan
Page has started moving.
Last night, we were lying on her bedroom rug, reading a book together, and suddenly she wasn’t next to me any longer. She’d swum a few strokes of backstroke to move behind me. Silently.
This morning, I wake to feed her to find that she’s left her sleeping pad behind and is now at the top of the bed.
Nightswimming.
October 27th, 2010 by alex
Page and I like to walk the streets of downtown Palo Alto after I get off of work. Downtown Palo Alto is just a couple blocks away and has just about everything you could imagine. Today we went to the post office to mail Harper and Marlowe some pressies from the US to the UK, then to the bank, we hit up the farmers market and bought some fresh sunflowers and grapes. Did some window shopping since I still have a bit of baby weight hanging on and refuse to buy anything that will be too big in a couple months (at least that is what I tell myself) but, a girl can dream, right? And then headed home. She always starts off happy and alert, checking out the scenery, people and traffic, then after enough rolling and bumps she is off to sleep. I think its safe to say we all love being so close to downtown Palo Alto, this place is pretty special!
October 26th, 2010 by brendan
Reaching two months of age means that I get to pay a nice doctor loads of money to hurt my daughter.
Before they gave her immunization shots, Page was weighed and measured. She has almost reached 5 kilos, which is average, and is above average in height and head size.
October 21st, 2010 by alex
Mornings are my favorite. Page always wakes up in the morning with a smile, she is so happy to see us. While I get ready for work I’ll bring her into our room to play with Dad. She loves to play the shark game where Dad makes shark faces and tries to chomp up her toesies. Or she loves the kitty kat game, “Meoooowwww!” always brings a smile to her face. She’ll start to doze again when its time for us to head to work. We have a nanny now twice a week, Nataliya. She is really wonderful. Although I couldn’t resist ducking out of work early today to see my girl…
October 20th, 2010 by alex
At some point I will use all the video equipment (and videographers) I have access to on a daily basis to shoot some higher quality video of Page. Its just that sometimes its just me and her and my old iPhone and I can’t resist shooting her in the raw.
Oh Alex, she’s AMAZING!! Missing you guys here in drippy Colorado!! xoxo
Comment by Anne-Britt Ostlund — October 25, 2010 @ 8:09 am
When can we see updated pics on the Schenk Family website? I’ve gone off Facebook so I need my Tia and Sadie fill some other way! Thanks about Page, we had our first chest cold together and she was a bit fussy, but this morning she was back to her happy self. I can’t wait for her to see her ‘home’ in Colorado this winter and the snow!!
Comment by alex — October 25, 2010 @ 11:39 am
That was so good to see. Page was looking straight at ME!
Comment by Craig — October 25, 2010 @ 10:19 pm
Steve Jobs would be so proud
Comment by cris — October 18, 2010 @ 10:12 am
October 17th, 2010 by brendan
A big day for Page. We took her to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin festival.
She likes goats more than being propped up on a pumpkin for a photo shot.
Then on to the Half Moon Bay Brewery to celebrate Gary’s 40th. Alex’s school friends Kara and Dawn got to meet Page, and Page got to meet her first baby friend, Harper.
It was lovely seeing you all in CA. Thanks for making the trip to HMB for G’s Birthday dinner. Love you loads, Faerie C. xxx
ps. Our nippers loved the parcel – cheers!
Comment by faerie Celeste — November 4, 2010 @ 5:31 pm
October 15th, 2010 by brendan
Thanks to Granma Sam for looking after Page last night. Was so beautiful to hear the two of you cooing at each other this morn’. The big belly laughs from Page were the best ones yet 🙂
October 12th, 2010 by alex
Brendan woke up early to meet Bobby and Meegan so the boys could ride Levi’s GranFondo. It was a grueling 106 mile road race. Brendan came in at 5 hours and 42 minutes, faster than Levi! Apparently it was all worth it due to the enormous amount of Paella that was given out after they finished the race.
Page and I drove up to Santa Rosa after sleeping in a bit. We met Meegan and spent the day listening to music and lounging in the shade. Page also got to ride her first pony, after all, Dad did say he promised her a pony if she got in the bathtub. So she got a head start, not sure she knew what was going on… She was such a good girl this day, I think she was a bit exhausted from all the excitement as she slept almost the whole day away on Sunday.
Using rapid eye movement I was able to detect lots of “nearly rolling” in your video. So much incentive to go after that toy! Beautiful.
Comment by Craig — November 2, 2010 @ 10:59 pm