Miami - Day 6: Still Viv!

I'm so in love with my brilliant 3rd cousin, 6 months old. She said her first word here, "hi."  She waves and says, "hi."  She will be crawling momentarily, unless she just skips crawling and goes right to walking.

I snuggled with her as much as I could today because it's my last whole day with her.  I leave tomorrow.  So, before you bore yourself any further, you should know that basically all I did today was snuggle with Viv, play with Viv and take pictures of Viv, so if you're not into baby pictures you can stop reading now.  Today I was Viv's photo journalist, so I'm not in any of the pictures.

This morning, just after Viv woke up I told her that I can't wait to have deep conversations with her and she cracked up like we shared a secret joke.  She really gets me!

Next, we got silly and dressed her up in a little tutu outfit that gramma got for her.

Mom decided that wouldn't be an appropriate outfit to go visiting in, so she changed her.  Here we are, just hanging out, getting ready to go, when Viv sits up.  I said, she looks like she just did a sit-up.  Her mom said, she did that from almost flat on her back!  I said, "omg, she just sat up by herself!!" so I grabbed my camera and caught her just after she sat up by herself:

Note her very substantial feet - this will become important later in the story.

We head off to visit the Renos. The Renos live in nature, their "yard" is not manicured or anything, it's just wild.  It's basically a nature preserve. Here's Viv at the Renos with grampa showing her a peacock feather he found on the ground.

Viv's very first swing!  Mark put it up for all his own new grandbabies.

Here's Viv having a deep conversation with a former attorney general of the USA. 

At some point Janet commented on Viv's "substantial feet," which cracked everybody up, and to which we made reference the rest of the day.

We were going to try and make it to the zoo, but we stayed too long at the Renos and it got too late, so we went to look at a high chair found on Craig's List.  On the way home Viv and I sat in the back together.  She had a rattle that lights up, which she stuck in her mouth, and I told her, "wow Viv, you are eating light!  That is so deep!" She agreed. Here's a picture of her eating light.

Mom liked the high chair and bought it, and on the way home gramma and I commented that the high chair looked like Viv was in a space station because it was so big.  After mom got it all washed and set up and Viv all strapped in (the cushions and frills were still in the washer) she said, yeah, she does look like she's ready to blast off. 

And then we ate and played half a game of cards and took a 20 minute break in which the entire household went to bed all at once, leaving me all alone with my camera and a computer.

Here she is next morning, eating cereal for the first time, in a high chair with cushions!