What a fun and busy month! As the weather continues to improve, we spend more and more time exploring new playgrounds in Jamaica Plain. One of our favorites is the 'Tot Lot' where there are plenty of abandoned toys to play with, but Hazel's favorite part is the sand box and the tasty sand. She finds twigs and other things to put in her mouth at lightning speed.
She's also become an excellent stair climber and will climb the 2-flights of stairs from our first floor to 3rd as many times as you let her.
Thanks to Seth and Makiko, we got our first jogging stroller and have used it a handful of times to get a little bit of exercise while Hazel enjoys the view.
Hazel flies! We went to Providence, Rhode Island to see some friends for an afternoon and the husband, Nick, took some really cute pictures of Hazel. One of my favorites was her flying through the air -- her facial expression is pretty unbeatable.
Another piece of major news is that Hazel has graduated from bottles to 'big girl' cups and has really (quite quickly) mastered the use of straws. She's also gotten pretty good at throwing items over her high-chair and into Izzy's mouth. Although, unfortunately for Izzy, sometimes it's food scrapes and sometimes it's Hazel's cup -- which lands a bit harder.
Hazel enjoyed a nice evening out with our friends Stephanie and John at a local Greek Food Festival. Hazel likes spanikopita -- or feta and spinach pie --
Lastly, Grandma had the good idea of giving Hazel a cabinet to call her own (and crawl into). We spent a good deal of time trying to keep her out of them and instead, we just let her crawl into the plastic tupperware cabinet and take everything out, bang it against the floor a couple times, drool on them, and then crawl inside and sit for awhile. She's usually entertained long enough for us to make our lunches in the morning.
Lastly, we spent the first week of June in Austin, Texas with all of the Pfalzer's, Schmitt's and Tada-Pfalzer's. We all got together for the entire week and had an awesome time swimming and being on the lake. We also got a photographer to take family pictures of all of us and I think Hazel was pretty photogenic.
