Spring videos!

Here's a whole mess of videos, some of which will be familiar to Facebookers, documenting:

1) Sylvia's love of the ladybug wheelie, which comes with the completely ignored warning, "This is not a push toy." You can see what an unstoppably nutty scrambler she is. 

  

2) Maggie on her first outdoor walk, a few weeks back. We are so lucky to live 3 doors up from a little playground. This is super convenient although even for the 100-foot stroll we still require a stroller - mostly for twin containment once there since I need to be able to put one (or both) somewhere safely. But now that Maggie can walk some I've been experimenting with having her walk on her own. Although she's a reasonably confident and competent walker, she remains a bit weirded out when she's out on the sidewalk on her own. In this video, her maiden strollerless voyage, it was really windy and she was extremely uncertain about the mail carrier with his big mail bag on wheels approaching from behind.

3) Ok, granted, we did not actually secure this babygate to the "shoe area," but we were hopeful it would be a deterrent. It was not.

4) Rosemary, climbing the strange silver mountain at the beautiful Union Square Park playground on a glorious spring day. She's been doing gymnastics this past year and I've been blown away by her increasing physical adventurousness. I love it. 

5) Sweet Maggie, Ms. Practical Life, and her bowl. It's a phone, it's a bowl, it's a hat. This kid loves anything she can wear, especially head gear (hats, head bands, tiaras) and socks. She can get the hats etc on, but not the socks, which she will just lay out on her feet to show where they go. She loves helping. She loves mixing food in bowls. 

6) Sylvia (messy eater) practicing her emphatic "no" head shake. 

7) Putting it into use a few days later.