our little spring chicken

we had a few more days of winter weather after our return from the u.s., but spring was not long off. and oh, the discoveries it held!

M made a bunch of new friends in our mum and bub group

 

 floriade - rows and rows and rows of tulips

 grass! bob got to join us, much to his delight

 an afternoon under the fig tree

 babies who brunch

 i call this her "lumber jill" look

most exciting discovery this season - sitting up!

 though we're still not doing much of it without support

 joining papa for a cocktail on the patio

and just generally being a super sweet, super fun little person to be with

(minus the new sleep regression stuff, which is no fun so we won't get into that)

i'll eat you up, i love you so!

happy halloween from our little wild thing!

 

los angeles, i'm yours

we spent the last week of our US trip in LA with family and friends... the traffic was just as horrendous as we remembered it, and the sunshine just as sweet. hit a bunch of old haunts, caught up with a bunch of good people. lb cried as the plane took off for oz. such a sap, that one.

 chez les cousins - kk shows me the magic of dancing fingers (M was transfixed!)

 

ucla

yrl library, ucla

my book is on this aisle

here's what M thought of my book

sweetest second cousins!

manhattan beach

 when your old friends meet your new baby... 

 ...and some of them have babies of their own...

 with grins like this! it just melts your heart.

 baby's first beach

 papa's first pair of birdwell breaches

 beach family portrait

groups selfies with babies... you take what you can get.

santa monica, our old pad

the adamson house, just a few days before our 9th anniversary

sydney-canberra: the last leg, with baby on her last legs