We have a hunch that Moxie likes being naked. She kicks her feet, cracks up, and almost never pees all over us (famous last words).
Tag: Moxie
Moxie is becoming a talker. More an “ooher” I guess. She makes sounds in response to our voices or when she is trying to get our attention. She also makes sounds at the toys on her play mat and her butterfly mobile. Come to think of it, she makes it all the time. It is all rather indiscreet.
Moxie has a pet giraffe. Aunt Sam bought Moxie the giraffe before she was even born. Given the Post-9/11 ban on exotic animals flying commercial, we haven’t been able to get Moxie and Twiga together. She hasn’t ever met Twiga but their relationship has already started. We’ve had some Twiga sightings.
This is a really fun cool thing Sam, Bibi, and Babu are setting up for Moxie. We thought we would share the first few photos with you. We will keep everyone updated on Twiga’s adventure.
We have decided to start sharing the joy of Twiga with all of your. This became especially timely when Twiga made an appearance in Bethesda of all places!
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| Not the most flattering shot. |
There’s a saying, “You have a bat in the cave.” It means, “There’s a booger sticking out of your nose.” You know sometimes you have a dry one that moves when you breath. You can’t feel it and you just keep talking while that little thing steals all the attention away from what you are saying. Luckily we have friends who tell us when there are bats in our caves. In Moxie’s life Strider and I are those friends. She has had some snot lately, perhaps she caught something from one of the other daycare rug rats–who knows. But we have a variety of tools to remove mucus from our daughter’s nostrils. We have the squeeze/sucker ball from the hospital, we have another from a kit we got at a baby shower, we have yet another sucker that came with the saline drops we got for her nose when we were flying to Florida. We also have a snot suck (a.k.a. The Nose Frida) which I personally found absolutely disgusting and now can’t live without. However, with all the power of kleenex, face wipes, three squeeze/sucker balls and the Nose Frida–I can’t for the life of me pry this bat from Moxie’s cave. It is just stuck there laughing at me.
She is making the sweetest faces and hand gestures and sounds tonight–but all I can focus on is this damn booger. Poor girl has such a flake for a mom. Poor girl’s mom also took a picture to share.
Moxie’s nursery is super freezing. As we work on transitioning her to her own room we have been working on making it a more tolerable temperature. We bought an infrared heater with lots if safety features, we are going to buy curtains next week, and tonight I (sort of) made a draft snake for the frosty window. I say (sort of) because I followed a pattern (mostly) and ended up with a snake that is far too skinny to actually do anything. It’s pretty wussy. I made another one for our bathroom door (another super drafty spot). We bought a 50 lbs bag of sand for $5 so I’ve got plenty left over to try again.
We have arrived. Last night marks the fourth night Moxie has slept 6+ hours straight! Last night she made it 9 hours! From 1030 to 730!! It all seems pretty magical.
Now we are going to start figuring out how to transition her to her own room. Mostly because she is out growing her beautiful borrowed bassinet. Truth be told, I love having her sleeping right next to us. She makes the coolest noises. But–I’m going back to work in a week so sleep will become even more important.
On Thanksgiving morning Grizzly, Strider, Moxie, and I went for a walk in the woods behind our house. Oh, we took the dogs too. Melanie, Griz’s wife, was also at the house but slept through the hike in preparation for the day’s festivities. Gyges and Pili hadn’t been back in the woods for a while so it was all very exciting. Lots of sniffing to do. We got to see the giant trees that fell during Super Duper Storm Sandy.
Grizzly and Moxie decided to wear fun hats during the walk: Moxie in a cupcake and Grizzly with wings. Jess stole the hat from Grizzly because she is a wuss. You will note that Strider and I are totally bundled up and Griz has only a long sleeve shirt. He spent much of his early life in Mongolia and thus is very comfortable in cold weather. He actually radiates heat.
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| They dressed like twins. |
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| Somehow Griz got stuck walking the dogs (heehee). |
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| They aren’t actually smiling–these are the facial expressions of men looking directly into the sun. |
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| These two had lots to discuss. Topics ranged from software to make movies to high jumping techniques. |
If I don’t say so myself. I think she’s the cutest pa-tootiest. Today she got all dressed in one outfit and then had an explosion that required a wardrobe change just 30 minutes into the day. She hasn’t messed with (in) this outfit yet so we got some pictures. No real point to this story–just sharing some pictures of Moxie. We think she’s the Bee’s Knees.
Strider took a really cute series of photos of Moxie in her new slippers (too big for her but cute all the same). The really make her giant feet look bigger–awesome.
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| This is no camera trick. Her feet are that big. Please, make jokes about saving money on ski rentals. |
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| She slow mo falls over when we leave her there to sit. It’s pretty darn cute. |
Moxie’s Thanksgiving went really well. We were grateful for the family and friends we got to spend time with and missed those we didn’t get to see. We spent the day with the Shaffer cousins: Ryan and Helen, the Mark-Tucker Clan: Tony, Karen, and Ruby, and the Marks: Jerry and Sue. We ate delicious food (none of which we contributed–Karen gave us a pass this year with the new baby–we appreciate it because we can barely dress ourselves these days), had wonderful conversation, and spent time with people we love.
Moxie wore her special Thanksgiving outfit we got for like 75% off at Janie and Jack. She looked super cute:
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| Moxie sits up (sort of) showing off her outfit. |
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| Moxie and Dad hanging at the Mark-Tuckers |
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| Little Miss Wiggle Feet posing for the camera |
We hung out and helped out in prep for the delicious dinner. We also skyped with Hannah (studying abroad in Scotland this semester).
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| I’m on the couch chatting with Hannah while others debate the fiscal cliff. |
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| Queen of the Kitchen rocking her scene. |
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| Moxie and Sue say “Hi” to Hannah. |
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| Enjoying convos and apps. |
Dinner was, of course, really good and so was the conversation. Moxie slept for most of the meal in the ErgoBaby carrier and then hung out being cute for the rest.
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| Check out how much fun everyone is having. |
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| Discussing the intelligence of babies. |
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| Moxie, in phase one of her plan, takes off her dress and then poops through her diaper. |
After a delicious meal and a giant baby bowel movement we retired to the living room to carry on conversation in slightly cooler climes.
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| Here’s what Moxie wore after the blow out. |
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| Cousins chill and Ruby works some photo magic on Strider’s iPhone. |
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| Chatty Chattersons. |
Good times were had by all. Stay tuned to see what we did on Black Friday. A house explodes. No kidding.