June 1st - March 1st = 9 months old!!!

Nine months into this living, growing, changing experiment and Scout is proving a fun and funny little kid. A few of her vital stats include: six teeth, 30 inches tall, crawling, standing and cruising, eating all sorts of things, loving prunes, spinach, and pears, just saying no to lentils and garbanzo beans. She is very busy.


We've spent the last few months traveling up to Bar Harbor during the middle part of each week to help out some friends. It's been hard to be away from Daddy and dogs but on the upside we've spent some quality time with Grandparent Set MDI, girlfriends, and new babies. It's been great and has helped us pass the long SNOWY winter months.


Ms. Perpetual Motion came for a visit last week while Med School Mama ran some errands. Scout and I enjoyed our time together and even posed for a few photos Ms. PM took as part of her photo essay: 'The Occupants of a House in Rockland on a February Afternoon."

The photographer's self portrait.

*Worriers please note: dangerous exposed outlet has since been plugged and dangling cord removed.

Yesterday we had a bit of a scare and I was heartened to see that my motherly instinct were fiercely intact. (After nine months the sharp edges of my brain function are a little rounded - child-proofed if you will.)
I was mid dishes and Scout was mid nap when I heard our duplex neighbor screaming for help. I scurried outside just has she burst out her back door with smoke streaming out behind. I sprinted back inside grabbed Scout, the dogs, and the telephone and quickly called the fire department. By the time they arrived our neighbor had the mostly overblown kitchen fire under control so the two engines, eight fire personnel, and newspaper photographer were a bit redundant. Needless to say it was a bit jarring but in the end kind of funny. I couldn't resist twitching the curtain and snapping a photo of this memorable non-event.