Thank God for Sunshine

And warmer temperatures. And Wiggleworms! Today was our first baby music class put on by the people at the Old Town School of Folk Music. It was awesome. There are four babies and moms that come and it meets in the Hyde Park Art Center just three blocks from our house. We sing songs, the babies play under a parachute while the moms make it move around and blow their tiny baby minds, they play with bubbles, and best of all they get to hit a humongous drum. Seriously, there's a huge drum, called 'The Gathering Drum' that they get to whack at with their little tiny hands. Lily is an expert at this. She is very much into whacking things right now. In fact, if she can whack one object with another object it pretty much makes her day. All of the moms are affiliated with the University in some way or another, and they all live in Hyde Park. I even exchanged phone numbers with a woman who lives just up the street from us to go for a walk sometime. This was sort of a big deal for me. (If you're reading this new friend, I'm totally normal and not anxious at all.) 


I've been trying to make mom friends, but it just isn't going very well. I went to a couple of play groups in the area, but it was just strange. It seems like baby groups tend to attract the people that are trying to do everything they can to get their baby into Yale. And are very proud that they are doing it. I mean, yes, I'm trying to do everything I can to help Lily be a happy, well adjusted person but I'm not speaking three languages in the home, going to five different baby groups each week for baby socialization, and analyzing every milestone as ahead or behind the average baby. I am feeding her healthy, home made food, reading to her, singing and playing with her, taking her interesting places and going for walks/jogs/runs almost every day. We randomly do some baby sign language when I think about it, which is probably less than once a day, so I'm not really banking on that working at all. I feel like I turned out pretty ok and I didn't watch any Baby Einstein videos. I feel like love and attention is all they really need for now. 


For some reason, thankfully, the Wiggleworms moms aren't like that. At least not that I noticed in our first class. I'm very excited to have something to go to each week again. And I'm more excited that it's close enough for us to walk to. And I get to walk home with a friend.