Contraptions and Baths

With a teething, cranky baby on our hands, we thought to ourselves, what's a fun distraction for everyone? So naturally, we turned to a recent addition to our house, a contraption that's almost too big to fit in any room: the Rainforest Jumperoo. As you can see in this video, what's important is that she gets a big kick out of it:




After a little Jumperoo fun, it was time for a bath. Imogen also enjoys bath time (the fun/cute comes after the first few seconds):

Matching shirts!

Fortunately, when you're seven months old it's not a fashion faux pas to have the same shirt. It's really cute. This is Imogen's friend Naomi (daughter of our friends Marah and David) at our house Saturday morning. They spend their weekdays together as well at St James.

March, including Nana's visit

Nana came for a quick weekend. We packed a lot in, including a hike to Mt Tabor, Imogen's first vegetable (sweet potatoes, which she loved), a trip to the Portland Art Museum, a visit to W+K and dinner at Jake's.

Nana was treated to Imogen's new tricks: saying "Da da da," and "zzzsss," trying to stay sitting up, and chattering away to us.

Thanks again for coming, Nana!

Hanging Out

Imogen sure enjoys her "Johnny Jump Up!"

Snow Shoeing!

We realized this week that both the seasons of winter and having a small baby are coming to end, so if we were going to go snow shoeing with Imogen, this weekend was one of our last chances! As a result, we woke up at a decent hour this morning, loaded the car, and headed to Trillium Lake on Mt. Hood for some winter fun.

Imogen enjoyed testing out her gear before hitting the road...


At the trail head...



Family portraits:




Imogen enjoyed herself so much that she fell asleep before we got back to the car...

Adventures with rice cereal (and spoons and her high chair)

Fun on Sunday

Some live action of our Sunday afternoon.

A Sunny Saturday

After a failed attempt at hiking Angel's Rest in the Columbia River Gorge (we forgot some necessary equipment - something to carry Imogen in!), we decided to head to the Sandy River Delta to soak in some sun, take a walk and throw the tennis ball for Kenai.

Mt. Hood Getaway

We went up to Mt. Hood last weekend with a group of friends. We were too busy having fun to be diligent about taking a lot of pictures, but here are a few to give an idea of how many kids there were (this is only a fraction of them - there were 7 children under 4)!

Hmmm, not what I thought my Thursday morning at work would look like...

Imogen was feeling a little under the weather today, so no day care for her, which meant no (or not much) work for dad. At least she wasn't feeling too bad, so I got some smiles.