Stuck in the Snow

Let me tell you about the adventure I went on yesterday! It started out as a beautiful spring day here in the Northwest! The sun was out, the sky was blue and the mountains were all in view. I got an early 6 am start to my day. I enjoyed throwing my breakfast around and climbing onto the table (my parents really need to start strapping me in to that chair). After, I took a nice, long nap and then we left. A pit stop at what my dad likes to call a little piece of heaven (the flagship REI store) to get a parking permit and then we were on the road East on I-90 to Snoqualmie Pass. It is kinda cool that while it rains and rains and rains in Seattle, just an hour away, it comes down as lots and lots and LOTS of Snow. Anyway, we got to our destination and met up with another family that likes to strap large things to their feet, babies on their backs, and then try to walk uphill for hours. Luckily they don't make snowshoes in my size plus I can't walk so that pretty much determines that I get the hard job of overseeing the action from behind my father's head, like this:



The way up went pretty smoothly except for the huge blast we heard. Was it thunder, a crash on the highway, or maybe an avalanche? When we got to a place to stop we had a perfect view of the snowy mountains, nearby ski slopes, and the highway. The highway looked more like a parking lot though. And it was, for several hours the cars didn't move an inch as the Department of Transportation did avalanche-control work. That means that they set off their own avalanches to avoid natural ones from taking place on top of cars. We didn't think that was so bad. We were still up high and could enjoy the hike down and hopefully the cars would start moving by then.


When we got down, it was still a parking lot on I-90, not this kind, but all the cars and semi's were still waiting. Overall, it took about 3 hours for them to finish! We felt happy that we weren't stuck on a highway, just at a snow-park, close to a bathroom and room to play and wait. But wait, my dad made things much more exciting! He locked the keys in our car! So now traffic was at a standstill and we couldn't even get in our car to keep warm! Thankfully, our friends from the baby hiking group we are in shared their car, diapers and snacks with us. Thank you for waiting with us, Kim, Eric and Cora! So, traffic began moving but now we were stuck. And I am supposed to ride in a car seat. So when said carseat is locked in said car, things get a little tricky.
Should we break a window, pay $150 to a tow-truck operator to open it more gracefully, or get abuela's help?

We opted for grandma. She came out and I carefully road in the back seat to her house, half an hour west on I-90. Then my parents left me there and drove further west (30 minutes) to Seattle to get the other key and then they drove all the way back to the car, then they got me and then went home. This made for a long, long day. I let them sleep until quarter of 8 today for all their hard work!

Thank you abuela and tia Ivonne for taking care of me so nicely while my parents drove all around for hours.

adventures in eating

I haven't written too much about food in a long time. I guess it's not such a big deal anymore. Kinda like, "Yeah, I eat things, who wants to know?"

Since my last post about mushy food, I have moved onto more solidified blobs of things in all sorts of shapes, colors and textures. These include:

apple

avocado** banana

beans

bread*

brussels sprouts

cantaloupe

cantaloupe juice

carrot

carrot juice

celery

cheerios

cheese*

chicken

chocolate

egg

grapefruit juice

lentils

lime

mango

oatmeal

onion

orange

pear

peas

pirate's booty

potato

rambutan

rice cereal

spinach

strawberry

sweet potato

tofu

tomato

veggie chips

yam yogurt zucchini *a favorite, I'll eat this anytime **my first "solid"

Below you will find a montage of photos of me eating, drinking and playing with different tasty morsels.

Fun with Water

Before my first tall non-fat soy latte of the day:

Hanging out with my tia Ivonne drinking some juice at the table at abuela's:

Eating a pear on the table at abuela's:

Yogurt! (while mom was away dad let me play):

Strawberry:

Spinach (or you can call me Pubert Addams):

p.s. check out my YouTube channel for live strawberry-eating action.

ring my bell

OK, all you babies out there, how many of you have your own phone line? That's right, I am on the cutting edge of technology and...Ouch! it's sharp! You can now use the button at the bottom right-hand side of my blog to call me and leave me messages. Don't expect to hear from me for a few years as I can't even get a fork in my mouth (so I am a little ways away from deliberately pressing 10 digits consecutively, in the right order).

Aside from that, I have been playing with my firetruck and the safety gate at the top of our stairs. You can see these newly uploaded videos on You Tube (blogger's tool is not working for me right now nor is its photo uploading tool so this will have to be a photo-less, video-less entry).