Howdy folks. No pictures for now, so feel free to check in at your other favorite website (here are some suggestions: http://mountainproject.com/, http://www.nejm.org/, http://www.101cookbooks.com/).
We started driving out to chicago after the last post. swung through ten sleep, WY, laura's hometown, through the black hills and badlands NP, rochester MN to see rod and carol, and arrived in Madison WI for Matt J's wedding. In ten sleep, she hit her stride, and really started running around. before she'd walk here and there, but there distances between two places were not intimidating for her. It helped that the house of the family friends we stayed with had a large living room with wall to wall cushy carpet. so off she went, later putting on quite a show for the madison folks. If anyone out there has any pics of the squeek from the wedding, please send them along and I can post them. As it turns out, it was a very busy weekend and our hands were full the whole time. Therefore, we got pictures from the rest of our trip, but none in madison. booooooooo. then we came down to chicago to visit opa, who had gone into the hospital while we were in madison. We went straight to the hospital and sienna got to meet opa, her great granddad. we were afraid that she might freak out and forever fear him since that's what happened when we visited papa brownie at the hospital in november. but no, she flashed him some smiles and ran around his room and in the hallway. Opa loved it, as did we. Her frankenstein gait was eerily similar to many of opa's elderly hospital neighbors. As we were leaving, the nurse called us over and asked us never to come back again (with sienna) because babies aren't allowed on the floor and opa had a nasty infection that we wouldn't want her to get. so we spent the next four days in chicago, seeing frank and maude and going to the children's museum and the park. then laurienna went to montrose, CO and i'm still here in chicago visiting opa in the hospital. This is all a roundabout way to say that laura has the camera and so I can't download pics to post. sorry. Especially since her birthday is coming up, which puts her at one year, which means we'll end the blog (probably). maybe not.
By the way, I forgot to mention when we passed the 9 month mark: so at that point sienna had spent an equal time in the belly as out. therefore, she officially converted from an amphibian creature to a land creature. around the table that night we discussed our options. Sienna said that she enjoyed it in the womb. Her needs were taken care of, always the right temp, no potty, etc. However, she could see the appeal of living on land. She then climbed onto the table and broke into song:
"I wanna be where the people are
I wanna see, wanna see them dancin'
Walking around on those - what do you call 'em?
Oh - feet!
"Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far
Legs are required for jumping, dancing
Strolling along down a - what's that word again?
Street"
She had doused herself in water and collected a bundle of forks, calling them dinglehoppers, though I made her get down because I didn't feel comfortable with her on the table holding all those things. I knew where these things led, namely to my untimely death at the hands of a morbidly obese witch with bilateral lower extremity amputations due to diabetic ulcers. Not psyched about that. So, anyway, we put it to a vote and we decided that sienna would stay out of the belly (2-1 vote, with sienna in the minority).
After the wedding, laura and I were talking. she paused and looked like she was gunna start crying. "What?" "someday sienna will wear a dress of white and get married." "yeah, it'll be great." "but didn't you think about that?" "no, course not, why would I?" "you didn't think of it at all???" "no, that's ridiculous, why wooooo..." It was at this point that I started balling.
I get it.
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