Day 1 Ends And Day 2 Begins

We ended our first day with Kate the same way it started - Kate was asleep on my chest. If the end of day two is any indicator of things to come Kate falling asleep on Kevin's chest may be just something we look back on only - more on all that later. Actually maybe even another day since the subject is a little touchy right about now.









The start of day two was Kate's introduction to new toys for her and old stand-bys for us. She played for a long time with the 'stacking cups' and put them in, put them out, put them in, . . you get the picture. She was having too much fun. Then she discovered it was even more fun to throw the cups on the floor and watch them get picked up and given back to her. Throw the cups on the floor, Daddy picks them up, throw the cups on the floor, Mommy picks them up, ah . . . you get the picture. I wonder what she was thinking. Maybe something like, 'oh, I see what parental types can do, I'm gonna love this!'

We found that playing with the channel changer is definately one of the funnest 'toys' to play with. We also found that the channel changer has international appeal. There just has to be some Mattel or Hasbrow executives scratching their heads about that. No matter though, as far as Kate was concerned, the channel changer was another little thing that brought joy into her life.


Next was our first breakfast. Mom was sure she had something that Kate would love. Warm rice baby cereal with apple apple sauce mixed in. It's been a favorite among babies at our house for years. And after whipping up a batch, guess what happened, Kate thought it was great and finished off a whole bowl. All three of us then went to get breakfast for mom and dad. Kate was quite interested and decided that warm baby rice cereal with apple sauce was not enough. She decided to have some watermelon then eggs and thought they were very good. There were other things she would have loved to try as well but mom and dad decided it would be better to keep the menu to a small number of items in case something eaten didn't quite agree. We believe that this was Kate's first experience to the 'downside' of parents. Not too much disagreement this time since her belly was already full. But there will be other things and other issues we're sure she won't give in so easily on. Things that will give brothers and sisters a common bond, something to laugh, cry, and joke about. Somthing that will make us all a family.