coffee group

Baby girl and I hosted the embassy spouse coffee group this month. While we were setting up for the the party we took some photos of ourselves.

Showing off her ability to climb up on the table, stand up, and crouch back down. 

Super proud — right before she took a tumble off the table. 

No blood, no foul.

On the menu: Fruit salad with melon, apples, grapes, oranges, and mint.
Chicken salad sandwiches (in the croissants)
Molasses cookies
Chocolate Banana Bread
Drinks: coffee, tea, orange juice, champagne

Nothing fancy — good food served on paper plates with wooden forks and paper napkins. And I was able to put my large collection of Starbucks mugs to good use. The fanciest part of it all was my new tablecloth from the Syrian wood guy in the sook. I figured as a grownup, I probably should own one tablecloth so I bought this one last week. It’s a latte colored fabric with slightly darker embroidery thread.

There were 15 or 16 women in attendance and we had a fun time chatting, eating, and shopping. (A woman was there who sells shirts that she imports from India). Camille partied right through her naptime. She was too busy “trying on” the clothes and eating bites of cookie to feel tired. She strutted around the room like she  was one of the the girls instead of my baby.

flying high

I was going through old drafts on my blog, looking for Turkey stuff when I found this. I think I was originally going to do a post about our flight/trip to Oman, but it got lost in all the chaos of landing in country and finding our way around.

I forgot how quiet those lemons kept her — I wonder if I need to pack some for our trip to Jordan in a few weeks?

Camille and Sleep are no longer mortal enemies . . .

and it only took 14 months. For the past 2 weeks or so, Camille has been sleeping like a normal human. She’s been going to bed at 8:30 or 9 and sleeping until 4am, then nursing and going back to sleep until 7ish. She’s also been napping twice a day for 2-3 hours total.

I didn’t do anything different — for 14 months she’s been taking 20 minute “naps” and only sleeping 2 hour stretches at night with lots of screaming involved, but overnight she started conforming to normal sleep patterns. It’s shocking. It’s a miracle.

(whispering) Hallelujah