Orion our Pet Cat

Two months ago, I decided it was time to add yet another pet to the family, a beautiful ruddy three year old Abyssinian cat named Orion. I thought about getting a kitten and then decided against it. An adult cat would have more of a sense to deal with Dante than a fearless and innocent kitten. Orion has quickly become one of the family and a playmate Dante is eager to see every day. He calls all animals CATS: squirrels, birds, dolphins, fish - they are all cats just like his kitty at home.

A bit about Orion. I got him from a breeder in Plattekill, New York called Unkamen. He was their "male stud" and had recently been retired and neutered. Apparently, the life of a breeding male cat is lonely and very solitary as he can not be around other cats for obvious reasons (aggression, spray, mating). So for three years, Orion was well loved and cared for but resided in a small room with few playmates or room to run around and explore.


It took him two weeks to warm up to the sounds and smells of our apartment, and I let him be and gave him room to explore at his own pace and find comfort under my bed and away from Dante's curious excitement at this new creature lurking about. He even gets along with Rahav's dog Lulu, and has even gotten comfortable enough to leap off of the table and attack her puffy tail, which is Lulu's worst nightmare; she get's no break in this world from torture!


Today, Orion let's Dante pet him and will even sit on Dante's lap for a bit. Dante gets too excited after a few minutes of petting his paws, and pulling his ears and then gets excited and squeels, which sends Orion under the couch for a breather. But they are friends and Orion is my evening companion. It's nice to have someone waiting for us when we get home at night :-)

Connecting the Dots

We got back from Vegas tonite and had another lovely flight. Dante played for most of it and fell asleep for a few hours before we landed. No fussing, no crying. The only time he got a little testy was right before he fell asleep when he was exhausted and had some trouble figuring out a comfy position to fall asleep in. That ended up being on top of me. The woman who shared our aisle was great. She had her daughter with her who'd been competing in a cheerleading comp. in Vegas and an 8 year old.

What I wanted to write down were the new things he's put together just in the last week. We were taking a bath and he has figured out how to pour water on my head and direct the container towards me instead of just spilling it on himself. Last week he would try and pour it on me but up end it in his direction every time. Tonite he knew how to pour in the direction he wanted it to go in. He had an apple in the bath with him and there were bubbles. He tried taking a bite and didn't like it and then I noticed that he was rinsing the apple off and getting the soap bubbles off it and then taking a bite.

New words this week. Od is becoming a real word to him, Toda started in earnest a couple of weeks ago, Caca, Cat, Bamba (popcorn). He knows where his poopick and Af are. He said hi and hello this last week when we were in the playground and he was imitating a talkative parrot that someone had brought to the place.

He blew his first kiss at Teresa this last week, I think it was on Wednesday. She was leaving and we went to the door together and I was saying Bye Bye and waving and Teresa looked back at us at the elevator and blew him a kiss. He made a puckering, smacking sound back at her. Then yesterday in Vegas Christine was at her desk and blew a kiss at him and he blew one right back hand sweep and all.

Pimped Out

While visiting friends and family in Los Angeles, I found these adorable pimp jackets at flea market and couldn't resist buying them. Here Dante is modeling them both and looking snazzy as can be.

I know there will be a day in the near future when I can no longer get away with dressing him in campy clothes - so I'm milking it now! That Zebra striped one screams BABY BURNER!!!! the rabbit fur lined vest will be donned at the May Baby Loves Disco party.

Dancing

Dante's Seventeen Months!

Wow. crazy to think that Dante is over a year and a half old. It's difficult to keep up with the new things he learns on a daily basis before our eyes. What's best is that he's developing his own quirks and likes, dislike and his personality is rapidly budding. Shaking his head "NO" with a huge grin on his face is his favorite action. But he understands a lot of what we say and parrots the rest in his own adorable jabberwocky style. And he uses us as a step latter, compass or other vessel to get what he wants.

Lately we've noticed what a BOY he is and how his interests have naturally gravitated towards cars, trucks and remote controls. Today I noticed him meticulously lining up three remote controls and circling the coffee table to make sure they were evenly aligned.

Dante's other unique trait is his "Napoleon Walk" as Rahav puts it. He turns his feet out, folds his arms behind his hunched back, sticks his head out and paces like he's plotting to invade Russia. We have no clue where he picked this up but it's endearing to watch.

We are also starting to look at nursery schools for when Dante is TWO and in NYC we're applying late. it's insane to be thinking six months in advanced when enjoying him is a daily experience that we're holding onto. There are two we are looking at; Tudor Time and Buckle My Shoe

Imagining him growing up is difficult, especially when he still naps four hours a day and begs, pleads and wails when we leave the room. Oh yeah, and the separation anxiety - it's getting worse!

First Snow in NYC: Feb 25th

I came back from a biz trip in San Francisco to six inches of snow on the ground in NYC. The weekend proved to be lazy and fun with Dante as we did absolutely nothing but lounge around the house and feed each other popcorn, watch cheezy reality shows like Rock of Love, Project Runway and dance around the living room to Feist's "One Evening".

I put Dante in his cozy snowsuit and took him to Stuyvesant Oval where kids were building a snowman in the quiet powder snow. We took cheerios and he fed the squirrels and laughed when they would approach and scurry off with a mouth full of Dante's treats. He delighted in hearing his boots crack on the ice and gazed at the footprint he left in the snow. I showed him that you could eat the snow, roll it in a ball and throw it against a tree and watch it splatter all over the ground. Dante loved this and we had a mini snowball fight.

Where's your Poopick?

Dante was playing with his bellybutton this morning so I told him the word for it in Hebrew ; Poopick. Efo ha Poopick shelcha? I asked him after a bit and he immediately lifted his shirt and pointed at his bellybutton. He's totally learned the word just from it being pointed out. I can ask him to show me his nose and he'll come over and touch mine and now Poopick clearly means something specific to him as well.

A big week for the D

This week has seemed to bring one breakthrough after another in terms of Dante's capabilities and understanding. I guess all these things are at a place in his development where a certain critical mass of connected neurons suddenly opens all of them up like a key in a lock.
More or less in chronological order since Monday.
- D signed 'food' to me twice while I was getting a bottle ready. He distinctly put his hand up to his mouth and moved them in an eating motion. When I said do you want to eat to him in Hebrew he smiled and signed food again.
- He's understood how to open a door if its not latched when he's on the wrong side of it. He knows to pull towards him if needed rather than just trying to push it.
- I brought a Jack in the box that he hadn't seen for a few weeks over to the chelsea apartment. He used the button on it immediately and also made the connection between pushing Jack down and being able to launch him with the button again. A couple of months ago he had never done this.
-He's been openning drawers for a while and tonite opened a very big one that he'd never managed before.
-He wanted to get out of the bathroom after his bath tonite and I shut the door so I could finish drying him. Instead of trying to pry it open he immediately reached for the handle once the door was shut.
-His vocalising has been amazing all week and today in particular, lots of almost words and repetitions of phrases and word sounds being repeated to himself and back to others, including tonation and emphasis.
- This one made Christine cry. When he got out of the bath he went over to his door toy and proceeded to place every single plastic peg from the toy into it's correspondingly shaped hole.

Dante begins to learn to feed himself

This is the first time D used a utensil to bring food into his mouth when I was feeding him.

New Year's in Hawaii

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To ring in 2008 we set off for a ten day adventure on the big island of Hawaii. We spent the first half on the Hilo side and stayed with my family, Jeff and Eileen, in Pahoa. They are the perfect hosts and have a lovely home with ocean views. We watched the sunrise from the balcony each morning - it was paradise! We spent our days picking exotic fruit off trees (guava, papaya, coconut, dragon fruit), swimming in the warm ponds, hiking, driving through the rainforest and indulging on delicious papaya salads.

We went to sunny Kona for the second half of the trip and explored all the snorkeling spots. Rahav did a night snorkel with the manta rays and was lucky enough to see whales and dolphins on the boat ride. Dante was a gem and really loved the water! He took naps in the car, explored the lava rocks, chased yellow butterflies and took up playing the ukulele!

Christmas in Texas

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We spent a week in Texas visiting my family for the Christmas holiday. My folks house is always bustling with laughter and cheer this time of the year. At any given time there was ten + children running around playing and Dante delighted in the activity and new playmates. Dante has no fear and immediately took to launching himself into the middle of the action even if it meant getting hurt. He wanted to run, climb stairs and play with the big kids. My goal was to keep him from seriously harming himself. Thankfully we left Texas with Dante's body intact - although he did manage to get two black eyes and several bruises and scratches.

Swimming in the Grotto in Hawaii. First time underwater

D and I have been going to the pool since he was less than a month old and he's taken to the water just beautifully. Up till now I've put him underwater just a little bit and even though he likes the water he would come up looking a bit scared so I didn't do it too much. Yesterday though he really got it. Jeff, Christine's uncle took us to a warm water grotto that was like a bath and was very small, probably room for only 10-15 people. We put the D in the water and I decided to give the submersion a try again after we'd been in the water for a few minutes. This time Dante absolutely loved it! We were passing him back and forth between the three of us and Dante impressed everybody there with his skills. He would put his head in the water or launch himself at someone and FULLY submerge before we brought him up. He came up smiling from ear to ear, clapping and laughing and squirming for more. We played with him like this for about half and hour and he couldn't get enough. December 30th - Dante's official first time holding his breath under water.

Dante in the Mirror

I caught Dante playing and cooing at himself in the mirror. It shows off a lot of his budding personality. He likes to bounce and laugh and stare at himself in the mirror. I'm not quite sure if he knows it him in the mirror because I takes a peek around the frame to see who's behind it playing with him.

Video Highlight of Dante in Paris

I created a four minute video highlighting many of the places we took Dante in Paris. we entered St. Augustine chapel and Dante loved the echo his voice made regardless of the frenchies praying nearby :-) Next is us at Trocadero followed by Rahav and Dante on the Carousel at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Then it's back to Dante talking away at lunch with Rahav's friend and a laughing - yelling match afterwards. Music provided by Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet. Enjoy!

Thanksgiving Day in Paris

Dante spent the second Thanksgiving of his precious short life once again in Paris. Click Here to see the photo album. Because of the strike we really got to see Paris by foot - walking for two to three hours at a time - pushing munchie in his stroller as he enjoyed his comfy view of Paris. He even learned how to say Ca va and kept repeating it when we said it. Makes sense because he definitely knows bye bye in English, so why not pick up a French version of hello/I'm well/Good bye. This picture was taken on the Carousel at the base of the Eiffel Tower.


I had to put this photo up because the set up was meticulously crafted by Rahav. It was rush hour and the strike was in full swing around us, yet we still had the quiet calm to stop and take lots of pretty photos of Paris by night. I love the blur and the warm gold color of the pyramid. A great photo like this is why Rahav is an amazing photographer. He had a random try and re-create the photo with the three of us and failed miserably.




Here's a photo of the three of us in front of the fountain at the Luxemborg Gardens. I was hoping the boats would be available to rent - I have images in my head of Dante pushing the sailboats on the fountain. Tant pis because the park was closing when we got there. L'annee prochaine!

Dante in Paris

Dante's second trip to Paris with us. We went to Sainte Chappelle church today with him.He was a huge hit with all the people inside the chapel checking out the stained glass windows



We went to Notre Dame,The Bon Marche, bought some amazing foie gras did alot of walking and got to experience first hand the transportation strike with packed buses and trains and no taxis.

Officially Walking: Monday, November 12th

Monday is the day that we can officially call the "Dante Walked Day" another D-Day milestone. He took his first solo wobbly steps a day before his first birthday on October 6th and voila, a little more than a month later, he's full on walking across the apartment. Ten steps, then twelve, fourteen, twenty but now - counting doesn't matter cuz he's got mad motor skillz.

Dante's newfound freedom and independence makes him look and act like a little boy with his own desires. This morning, he stunned Teresa - quote "OMG. Dante and I were playing on the floor and he grabbed his blanket, stood up and walked to his crib. I followed him and he looked at me like "I'll sleep now, thanks." That pretty much says it all :-)

Daddy took video that he'll post soon to commemorate this monumental day. As my co-worker says - climbing isn't far behind.

Halloween

Our little munchie was a MONKEY for Halloween this year - and oh what an adorable Monkey he is/was. Of course, he could care less as long as we let him devour the nearest pumpkin or gourd that he could get his teeth into. Yes, he now has ELEVEN Teeth - four front top, four front bottom and two top MOLARS.

The Sunday before Halloween, we took Dante (in Monkey suit) and Lulu to the Dog Parade in Thompkins Square Park where everyone snapped photos and giggled at the two of them. Most of the time Lulu was in the stroller and Dante was perching off daddy's arm waving and babbling at everyone passing by.

Dante climbs up on the couch

This morning at Christine's was the first time Dante climbed UP on the couch by himself. He just did it and didn't even realize there was anything special about this. He is close to getting to the point where he also understands that he needs to turn around to get off the couch instead of going head first.

Dante recites "Out Out Brief Candle" in Shakespeare's MacBeth

Ok Ok - One magical delight about kids is their natural ability to make people laugh! I caught Dante on film talking to himself with such dramatic flair it reminded me of Shakespeare. Here is the debut of our budding thespian. (it's two minutes of smiles and giggles)

New stuff - Pointing and smacking things -new word ; Duck

Yesterday the D looked at something I pointed at for the first time. We were rolling a round piece of wood around on the floor and Dante lost track of where it was. I pointed at it and he turned his head and looked and then went and got it.

Also I've been doing what my dad used to do when I got hurt. He'd beat the object involved, which always made me feel better somehow. Deciding to maintain the tradition I've been doing the same thing and smacking the floor, dvr player, table, floor again, couch and various other objects when Dante and they have come into painful proximity. Yesterday for the first time I noticed that the D was doing the same thing and smacking the couch.

Duck's definitely been added to the vocabulary. In the bathtub a couple of nights ago and since then a bunch of times. Today C and I were in the studio and I said duck and he said it right back.

Dante's first steps

Right during the week of his first birthday Dante took his first steps. All this past week we've been practicing together and I can't think of anything that makes my heart more joyful or makes me feel more happy than when D stands up against the sofa and and I call him. " Bo Hena Hamood Katan!!" (Come here little hamood -in Hebrew) I say. He turns to me with the sweetest smile because he knows what this game is and gets ready and then a moment later both his hands go up in the air and he is walking to me! He can take two or three steps right now and by then he'll reach me and fall into my arms and I hug and kiss him because I'm bursting with so much happiness and pleasure. And usually laughing from my belly. He looks like a little penguin waddling towards us when he does this. Christine and I are both awed and humbled by the incredible trust his actions show. He believes and trusts that we'll catch him and goes for even though if we didn't he'd fall on the floor hard.

October 6th: Dante's First Birthday

Wow! Has it been ONE YEAR since our little diamond popped into this world. Crazy how fast and how slow it's passed. I get dizzy trying to hold onto all the baby steps he's taken and how much he's learned and what a wonderfully FUN toddler he's blossomed into. He makes his parents smile hundreds of times each day.

Dante celebrated his first year in style with a lavish birthday party in the Stuyvesant Oval Park with his "best" friend Newton and fifty guests. We hired a music teacher to entertain the babies and parents and followed it up with hat making and a delicious double layer red velvet cake that he devoured and smeared all over his face.

Here's a link to the birthday photos

Drinking Sippy Cup and Spitting: Sept 12th

Dante and mommy were sitting on the kitchen floor - Dante was learning how to drink out of his sippy cup and discovered he could spit and make noises with the water in his mouth :-)

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)

Greg and Dante in Thompson Square Park

My Little (well 22 year old) brother came to visit this weekend. He hasn't seen Dante since Xmas (2 months old) but Dante somehow new he was family and immediately warmed up to him. For a ten month old, this is big, because Dante is in this picky stage where he wants his mommy, daddy and nanny. He's not so eager to let others hold him. But with Greg, no problem. We hung out in Thompson Square Park and enjoyed the warm Summer day.

Paul Van Dyk in Central Park

We met because both of us were on a disastorous Paul Van Dyk bus tour in Miami in 2005 during WMC immortalized as the Poison Vapor Diesel bus. So in a way Paul is responsible for Danted coming into the world. I was hoping we'd get to introduce Paul to Dante (shades of fanboy mania aside) since we've already told him the story of our meeting on that bus but he hasn't yet seen Dante in person. That didn't happen but nonetheless we had a great time at a soggy Central Park Summerstage where Paul played a great live set with guests.

Google 80s Party: August 16th

Google had an 80s themed party yesterday and transformed the cafe into a shiny disco ball. I couldn't resist showing off *The D* so I had Nanny Teresa bring him to the office. I dressed him in a CBGB's onsie and spiked his hair with blue hair gel. He munched on cucumbers, carrot sticks, played with the tinsel and had a blast looking at the shining lights - and so did I - everyone smiled and remarked that Dante should win the costume contest. I found these Yellow Devo glasses and put them on D's face. They didn't bother him at all - he left them on the rest of the night, posing for pix.

14th Street Y Pool on August 15th

Our little water monkey got to try out a new toy that Rahav picked up in Atlantic City. Now Dante can float and kick in the water all by himself. He delighted in the freedom his blow up whale offered as he kicked and cooed and maneuvered himself all around the YMCA pool. Daddy was close by, of course, while mommy snapped photos :-)

Fire Island: August 11th & 12th

Another sunny, beautiful weekend in Fire Island with friends. The water is super warm now and Dante loves loves loves the ocean now. Actually, he's fond of all things water. This past weekend Rahav's friend Sylvana and my friend's Kirsten and Alessio joined us for the weekend. We went to a BBQ and dined on *brownies* kobe beef and other deliciously fresh meat and veggies and fish on the deck. (Click Here for online photo album)It was a perfect Fire Island weekend. As always, Dante enjoyed the crowd and had no problem catching his ZZZs in the middle of the action. I love that he's so mobile and easy to take around!

Fire Island: August 4th & 5th: Ten Months Old

There were a lot of firsts for Dante on Fire Island this weekend. He'll be ten months old on Monday and every day he blossoms and becomes a bit more aware of the world each day.

- First time he picked blueberries. They line the Ocean Beach pathways and D figured out how to pick them instantly and gobble them up in his mouth. Once that light went off, he wouldn't take them from our hand anymore and insisted on picking them himself.

- First time he pet a deer. A mother and baby fawn spied us picking blueberries and came over to partake in the feast. Dante giggled and laughed when they approached and stretched out his hand to pat momma deer on the head.

- First time he went into the ocean without protesting. Little by little I'd put his feet in the sand when the tide approached and eventually splashed in the water and got excited when the tide rushed in and out of his ankles. He wasn't sure if it was him or the water moving to and fro.

- First time he felt roses.

- First time he played in a hammock

Visiting Mom's Office July 28th '07

We stopped into the Google office on our way to the Chelsea water park. It was a unbearable hot and humid July day in New York City. My office is on the chilly side and has yummy snacks - so we stopped in to fill up, cool down and spin on my desk chair. I'm giddy cuz my desk is pimping with the new 8-core Mac and two 24" monitors.

Later that day found this wonderful water park in Chelsea on 24th and 11th Avenue. It was perfect for Dante and Newton to crawl and splash around. the floor was covered in this soft sparkly blue padding and Dante was fascinated by the waterfall. To show you how BIG Dante is for his age - the boy next to him is 14 months old.

Dancing D

Dante loves to dance! lately he's been pulling himself up on the TV stand and grooving and bopping to VH1 hits that I play in the morning. The other day he bounced to the beat while Rahav played Guitar Hero (Hard mode of course :-)

Check out the video

Dante Dancing to Guitar Hero: July 23rd

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July 21st - PS1

This is the first weekend we've been in NYC in quite some time. The weather was perfect too - not humid and low 80s - there was no reason to head out to Fire Island with gorgeous NYC weather like this. When I first moved to NYC in 2001, I spend many Summer Saturdays at PS1 but haven't been in two years. So, I took Dante to PS1 this weekend while Rahav worked the Siren Festival and we had a blast. It was jammed packed for the Martinez Brothers. Of course, Dante loved it and everyone loved him - he hammed and flirted about and stole the ladies attention away from the countless roving men.

Dante in his Crib

D's started to pull himself upright in the last week or so and we've had to lower the height of the floor in both cribs. The first day the height was lowered in the studio a couple of days ago he did THIS and I made a note that photos would HAVE to be produced.

Nine Months is definately a growth milestone - We need to do a major toy overhaul. He's "over" most of his baby toys. Hail to the god Craigslist to out the old and scout out the new. His toy mat used to pacify Dante for hours. Now that he's mastered turning on and off the music & lights - he's bored. Same with the infant swing - now he likes to grab the bars, stop movement and practie pull-ups with a wily grin. His crib mobile has no chance of survival now that he can stand up, grab it and rip it to shreds. I'd give his bouncy seat another month or two tops. Clothes - we'll that needs to be overhauled as well as he's wearing clothes for 12 - 18 month olds. Luckly for me that I loved the clothes in Spain and Morocco and went a bit crazy :-)

The three of us went to a parents party and our new friends Debra and Jon who have a nine month old named Newton. We felt toy envy and realized we're totally out of the loop on what's cool for kids at the moment. Dante has a blast playing with all these super cool toy trains, drums, crawl houses etc. Time for a trip to BuyBuybaby!

9 Month Doctor Visit

Dante got flying colors at his nine month doctor visit. Height 30" / Weight 21 lbs / Head Circumference 46". Gross motor skills wise - Dante has mastered crawling and has his mind set on walking. One thing I see about Dante is that he's a very focused little boy when learning a new task. He doesn't get frustrated with failure and will try and try again until he gets it right. Such as pulling himself up on furniture. Once he discovered he can stand on his legs that's all he wanted to do. In one week he went from pulling himself up in his crib to cruising and balancing on all the living room furniture. His concentration is equally amazing and is not one to get distracted by room noise if he's engrossed in something else.

I call this picture his Moses picture. I took it in Fire Island at my friend Christina's house. We found a laundry basket filled with sheets and put d inside - he loved it and was content staying there all day if we let him - only to be heard every once in a while when he cooed :-)

Marrakesh and Spain: June 28th - July 7th 2007

Each year, mom, Tera and I take an annual girls trip to an exotic location. So far, we've been to Greece, Iceland, Nova Scotia and France. This year we chose Marrakesh, Morocco and Southern Spain. My college friend Shaunna chose Marrakesh as her wedding destination and we couldn't pass up the invitation and tag on a side trip to Madrid, Sevilla and Granada.
photo album from Marrakesh

Last year, both Tera and I were pregnant on our Greece trip. This year we thought it would be fun to bring along our babies to show that having kids would not slow us down. So, Tera brought four month old Megan and I brough nine month old Dante - and it worked. Both babies are easy travelers. This brings Dante's country tally to six (France, England, Jordan, Israel, Morocco and Spain). We ended up renting fabulous posh apartments in the city center - equipped with cribs and elevators to make us all comfortable. We took it easy and spent our days strolling the city streets, hanging out in lush gardens and palaces and museums. We even took the babies to a flamenco show in Sevilla but left them with mom to catch a bullfight.

Dante Started Crawling: June 28th 2997

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