Dante and Newton in Battery Park

Dante and Newton had a play date in Battery Park where Newton lives. They are three days apart in really get along well - and size each other up and then feed off each others vibe when they parallel play. Here's video of them playing in a hollowed out leather ball.

Debra and I set them inside and they loved feeling the leather. Then we turned them on the side and rolled the ball while they laughed and scooted out. The second video is of Dante scurrying across the grass.. Music is by Air :-)

Dante's first words,Singing, Lulu and standing up

So this week Dante has definitely started saying Mama alot. My word count so far is ; Abba (daddy in Hebrew) which started about a month ago. Lulu, Wawa and Mama. He's started to imitate sounds alot and when we took him to his first music class he definitely imitated the sound that a bird he was being shown makes. This morning on the way to the office we were talking with another mom and D stood up all by himself for a while, the other baby was already walking a bit and it was like D decided to do the same.
The coolest was on the 17th . D was walking around the studio holding onto the coach saying WaWaWaWa over and over and suddenly he was carrying a melody. He was definitely singing. I shot this right after. Not sure you really hear a tune in this video but right beforehand there was no doubt it was a song. He was definitely doing call a response in this part.Today in music class there were lots more babies and he had a great time. He loves those shaker eggs!

Another big change has been that in the last week or so he's really interested in Lulu. He crawls around after her and she cracks him up. It was kind of like one day she didn't exist and then the next she was a real object of interest to him. Here he is on the kitchen floor cracking up with her

Burning Man Sans Dante

Dante got to play and bond with his grandma(s) for a week while mom and dad went away to Burning Man. They took long walks daily, splashed in water, visited many parks and went to grandma Allen's quilting store. Grammy got to hear his first word - Water. Dante was busy having so much fun that he barely noticed that we were gone.

Burning Man 2007 was the best of my four burns so far. We stayed (in a tent) the entire seven days and lived off the Phat of the Man. For me, I felt since I chose to be away from Dante that I had to maximize my playa time. It was the year of the God's wreaking havoc with the elements. First there was a lunar eclipse, then an arsonist burned the man early, a suicide, two full days of dust storms, rain followed by a spectacular double rainbow and oh, did I mention it was HOT AND HUMID. Here's a link to Rahav's Burning Man album on Flickr (Warning!! many breasts)