This blog is coming back to life after a looooong nap. We all appreciate long naps around these parts — Nina still takes 2 a day, often for as long as 2 hours, and sleeps another 11 hours at night. Here’s a photo of her, enjoying some mac ‘n chesse, on our recent trip to Vermont with good friends. She had a great time (as did we), and was very intent on hugging the other children — Jack and Beatrice — who were on vacation with us. The trip was great, with lots of baby-centered activities during the day and candlelit homecooked dinners, sans children, at night.

Nina – our little Jingle Boomer, we now say — is as sprightly and spirited as ever. She’s very social, saying “hi” and “bye” to people, animals and even objects. She has a few other words that we’re able to understand: milk, Nina, duck, dog, bird, “nana” (her word for nursing), and “ba,” which is her word for “puffs,” a kind of cereal snack that we give her. “You call them ba’s, we call them puffs,” I like to tell her.

Much love to the world from Nina!