okay i'm trying things. first off, this keyboard is tiny so i'm making lots of typos. second, we're in a coffee shop and there is REALLY bad music playing so i'm distracted. but it is a nice coffee shop. tomrorow we'll have elana and her family here and thenext day, dorian arrives.
table of contents for this post: black wool skirts, babies, our babies, last night, parade, traffic light
the other day we went to the zocolo and there was a little itty bitty train there that kids could ride. noah sort of sat in it for a moment but then he wanted to get out. oh well. we saw a parade go by, and it seemed like such a random surprise.... i guess it was for christmas. there were hundreds of people walking togther, mostly with masks and costumes, anda bunch of floats with nativity scenes and other christmas things, one of jesus dying and some with kids ... music and a band and it was very surprising and kind of strange. we saw the parade twice - once when we were just sitting in a coffee shop with the kids and meredith's family and we heard a lot of commotion outside so we looked. huh. interesting. would you look at that.
there are a lot of women, mostly mayan i think, who wear these black fur skirts. they also wear a silky kind of shirt that has the same pattern and a neatly folded scarf on top of their heads.
the city/town/wherever we live has one traffic light.
i gave the kids a bath in the kitchen sink and they liked that i think. i asked noah if we shoudl do that again and he said no, he wants a shower in the kitchen sink instead.
we went to the marketplace that josh and i like a lot. there are a lot of fruits that we don't recognize and also it's crowded and has random little piles of potatoes next to old-school-atari-type video games and there was a babyy crying who was in a box - i guess the parents were busy so they put the baby in a box. it's crowded and narrow and dark and we have been able to get a lot of things there, like these little sweet bananas noah likes a lot (he ate 6 yesterday) and potatoes and a pair of sunglassses for me for $45 (which is $3 usd)... we took a taxi back which is $2.
we asked a little hotel place down the hill if we could leave our stroller there, and they agreed. that is great because we live at the top of a very steep hill and it's impossible to use the stroller until we get down the hill. so we'll pay them $8 for the month and that is really really helpful.
other plants we see everywhere: bromeliads and begonias and jade and trumpetvines and nasturtium and hydrangaea.
we see a lot of women carrying babies around. usually in a sling-ish kind of thing where the baby is on their back, and all that is showing is a foot. sometimes women carry other things in these sling things though. so you never know if there's a kid or stuff in their scarf, unless you see a foot. also there is a lot of walking around nursing - a woman just takes out a boob and sticks it in the kid's mouth. no embarassment or modesty or anything. i like that.
last night was hard - noah has a little bed thing in our room and aviva is in the packnplay in our room. they were both crying throughout the night. noah would get up and make demands (like he wanted daddy, not mama, and he wanted to brush his teeth, or needed to snuggle on a belly, or whatever) and aviva would just cry and cry. they were both coughing a little but not that much. we gave aviva tylenol twice (4 or 5 hours apart) and it helped but still she cried. i'd nurse her and still she'd cry. we'd change diapers, comfort, talk, snuggle, and still there was so much crying. argh. it was worse than the night before, but the night before was also bad. i don'tknow what we can do differently tonight... argh
okay i'll try pictures
table of contents for this post: black wool skirts, babies, our babies, last night, parade, traffic light
the other day we went to the zocolo and there was a little itty bitty train there that kids could ride. noah sort of sat in it for a moment but then he wanted to get out. oh well. we saw a parade go by, and it seemed like such a random surprise.... i guess it was for christmas. there were hundreds of people walking togther, mostly with masks and costumes, anda bunch of floats with nativity scenes and other christmas things, one of jesus dying and some with kids ... music and a band and it was very surprising and kind of strange. we saw the parade twice - once when we were just sitting in a coffee shop with the kids and meredith's family and we heard a lot of commotion outside so we looked. huh. interesting. would you look at that.
there are a lot of women, mostly mayan i think, who wear these black fur skirts. they also wear a silky kind of shirt that has the same pattern and a neatly folded scarf on top of their heads.
the city/town/wherever we live has one traffic light.
i gave the kids a bath in the kitchen sink and they liked that i think. i asked noah if we shoudl do that again and he said no, he wants a shower in the kitchen sink instead.
we went to the marketplace that josh and i like a lot. there are a lot of fruits that we don't recognize and also it's crowded and has random little piles of potatoes next to old-school-atari-type video games and there was a babyy crying who was in a box - i guess the parents were busy so they put the baby in a box. it's crowded and narrow and dark and we have been able to get a lot of things there, like these little sweet bananas noah likes a lot (he ate 6 yesterday) and potatoes and a pair of sunglassses for me for $45 (which is $3 usd)... we took a taxi back which is $2.
we asked a little hotel place down the hill if we could leave our stroller there, and they agreed. that is great because we live at the top of a very steep hill and it's impossible to use the stroller until we get down the hill. so we'll pay them $8 for the month and that is really really helpful.
other plants we see everywhere: bromeliads and begonias and jade and trumpetvines and nasturtium and hydrangaea.
we see a lot of women carrying babies around. usually in a sling-ish kind of thing where the baby is on their back, and all that is showing is a foot. sometimes women carry other things in these sling things though. so you never know if there's a kid or stuff in their scarf, unless you see a foot. also there is a lot of walking around nursing - a woman just takes out a boob and sticks it in the kid's mouth. no embarassment or modesty or anything. i like that.
last night was hard - noah has a little bed thing in our room and aviva is in the packnplay in our room. they were both crying throughout the night. noah would get up and make demands (like he wanted daddy, not mama, and he wanted to brush his teeth, or needed to snuggle on a belly, or whatever) and aviva would just cry and cry. they were both coughing a little but not that much. we gave aviva tylenol twice (4 or 5 hours apart) and it helped but still she cried. i'd nurse her and still she'd cry. we'd change diapers, comfort, talk, snuggle, and still there was so much crying. argh. it was worse than the night before, but the night before was also bad. i don'tknow what we can do differently tonight... argh
okay i'll try pictures
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| i'm sorry it's sideways. but this is right outside our front door. it's a very steep hill going down. |
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| one of the floats in the parade |
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| noah in the backyard |
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| sorry it's sideways. bath in kitchen sink |
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| fur skirt and neatly folded scarf on head. this is what we see all over town. |
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| josh and noah walking down one of the steep hills from our house |
Thanks!
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