A Sunday Stroll With Our Baby Bear

A beautiful Sunday stroll resulted in some of my favorite photos of our baby bear to date!

150208Isla001 150208Isla002 150208Isla003 150208Isla004 Oh, that sweet, happy face!Some large trees near our house drop small dark blue berries all over the street. Isla is obsessed with them! She is very observant and has incredibly sharp eyesight, so every time we go out she immediately finds the tiny berries and stops to pick them up. While she has never put the berries in her mouth, that is always a concern for us, especially since we have no idea what they are or whether they are poisonous. We scramble to clear the path in front of her, but the mass of berries littering the ground is too much for us. Every walk goes like this: 2 seconds after we step outside Isla spots a berry and picks it up. We tell her, “No, no. Put the berry down, please.” Isla puts the berry down, wags her finger at it and repeats, “No, no.” Then she promptly picks up the next berry she spies. Again we tell her no and ask her to put the berry down. This cycle continues, no matter how many different ways we try to approach the situation. So, on this particular Sunday we set out to find a location in our neighborhood that wasn’t absolutely covered in these berries. This proved to be a little more challenging than we had anticipated, but we finally located a relatively berry-free patch of ground along a little waterfront boardwalk. Isla’s attention turned to the water, and she happily entertained herself peering through the railings at the pond below.

So in love with this image. Cannot wait to have it printed for the house!Isla and Daddy began singing a popular children’s Chinese New Year song, Gong Xi, and Isla enthusiastically clasped her hands and motioned them up and down along with the chorus. Love this little face!!!