a day with my baby

The past couple of weeks, I’ve been dragging Hunter on errands instead of finding something fun for us to do together.  So yesterday, we took a trip to the Mitchell Park Domes.  Fun! Warm!  And pretty inexpensive!

Does anyone know how much my children love their nukies?  I promise Hunter’s the only one left with one, but I have to admit … even now, when the older girls are having a hard time with something {crying or whining}, I so want to stick a nuk in their mouths!

In the photo above, Hunter ‘stole’ a nuk out of the diaper bag, and quickly turned around to look at the flowers … all while covering her mouth to hide her nuk.  I tend to be a little more lenient with the whole pacifying thing … but daddy, not on board so much.  So this hand-over-the-mouth maneuver is what she does when she hears dad coming.
I think it’s kinda cute.  I also think I want my baby to stay a baby a while longer.  Is that so wrong?  We just potty trained her and the nuk will be next to go … I promise!
And I love this next photo.  She was being such a fun ‘subject’ for me today!  There were a series of photos I took where she’s laying down on the bench with her head in her hands … I had her nuk sitting at the front of the bench and told her she could have it if she let me take a few photos.  She patiently posed while her nuk patiently waited.
Then she made a beeline for it!

Have I mentioned I’m a stroller freak?  I actually posted about it once here.  I don’t know what I’ll do when my baby outgrows her stroller.  I don’t think I could actually part with any of my strollers, so I may need to start borrowing babies?
This may be one of the last photos I take of one of my children in a stroller … oh, but I hope not!  {and yeah, if you look closely, she has two nukies}
And lastly, a little collage of our day.  Hunter is a treasure to be with and she’s so good!  She patiently let me take photos … she even did Me Ra’s ‘fake laugh’ for me!
I love you baby …

5 Comments

  1. Anonymous February 4, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Precious! Keep her a “baby” as long as you can!!!!!!

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  2. Traci February 4, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    Love, love, love the great pic of her crawling toward her nuk. Great capture!

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  3. Lisa Mahnke February 4, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    Keep her little, til her carter’s wear out! That was a commercial, in case you don’t remember.

    I would too try to keep her a baby as long as possible!

    Lisa Mahnke

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  4. Tiffany February 5, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    I couldn’t agree with you more! Keep them little as long as you can and that includes the “binkies” (as we call them) or “Ahhhs” (as Zach would call them.) I guess that is the way they make him feel “Ahhhhhhhhhh”. Hey, maybe I need one of those!Love the photos!

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  5. JMS February 6, 2009 at 3:46 am

    I love these! My baby’s 7 mos and starting to turn into a person. It’s so bittersweet. Also love the collage…how do you do that? Don’t tell me it’s really easy on your mac?!

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