Life with Margo

Jake has been saying it from the beginning: mobility is the enemy. Now that assumption is really going to be tested since Margo started crawling last night…just in time for our 6 hour plane ride to New York.

Margo isn’t crawling yet, but she is figuring out ways of getting around–sometimes flinging herself forward and other times pushing herself backward. She is particularly motivated when she sees something especially interesting. Toys don’t seem to do much to spur her on, but plastic bags, objects she could choke on, or electrical cords are all pretty exciting (looks like it’s time to start baby-proofing the house). She also has a special affinity for socks.

At the end of this video, Margo sees something even more interesting than the sock–her mother’s glass of orange juice.

Avidons, Kellers, and Fayes at the zoo

Margo’s been very busy recently. On the weekend of December 6, Margo took her first trip to the Oakland Zoo with a whole gang of friends — the Keller family and the Faye family. Margo didn’t seem all that interested in the animals, but she found the animal noises her mom was making to be very amusing.

This weekend, Margo participated in her first holiday celebration with a mom’s group holiday party. The party featured a theme of 1970s food — cheese ball, tuna casserole, swedish meatballs, pigs in a blanket, jello salad, pineapple upside-down cake, etc. — and a secret santa gift exchange for the babies. Margo received a fabulous new bib, which was greatly needed in the Avidon house.

All ten babies even reprised their famous “babies on the couch” photo. They’ve all grown quite a bit since the last photo.

Margo sure is proud to be an Oakland girl, and her clothes show it.

Everyone has seen the "I Hella Love Oakland" t-shirt, but here it is again when Margo was 3-months old.

Margo in her Oaklandish T-shirt

Margo is an As Fan

On Saturday, November 29, Margo figured out how to play the music on her Exersaucer, a discovery she finds pretty exciting. Here she is spinning some tunes.

Margo Meets Maura

Over the past few weeks, Margo has had several opportunities to get to know her extended family. Jake’s cousin (or possibly second cousin, who knows?) Maura and her boyfriend Ryan visited San Francisco and came to the Avidon household for dinner on Monday, November 24. She brought Margo an adorable snow lion puppet from the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, where she works.

Nora, Jaina, Jake, Margo, and the Thanksgiving Feast

Then, on Thursday, November 27, Margo celebrated her first Thanksgiving at her Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Jim’s house. At Thanksgiving, Margo got to spend more time with her Great Aunt Tao, Great Uncle John, and Second Cousin Ginger and to meet her Second Cousin Jaina, who had come all the way from Ohio. Margo enjoyed getting to know her extended family better, but her favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner was eating baked sweet potato using her Sassy Teething Feeder, a cool tool which allows her to eat whole foods without the risk of choking. At the end of the meal, there was sweet potato all over Margo’s clothes, but boy did she have fun.

Margo is not sick in this picture, just adorable.

Margo came down with her first cold this week. It all started with a runny nose and slight cough on Friday, November 21. Then, on Monday, November 24, Margo projectile vomited at daycare. No one is exactly sure if or how this is related to the cold (and thankfully, it only happened one time), but it meant that Margo needed to leave daycare early on Monday and that she couldn’t go back on Tuesday. So, since Maia doesn’t work on Wednesdays and Thursday and Friday were holidays, this meant that Maia and Margo spent almost the whole week at home together. Unfortunately, they were both pretty sick the whole time, so they didn’t do anything too exciting. Margo seems to be getting better, but she does still have a pretty bad cough.