Yep, my mom is coming to visit us for a couple of weeks this Wednesday. I am trying to think of fun Denver things we can do that we haven't already shown her... I wonder, is 8 mo. too young for Perrin to get any kick out of the Children's Museum... To be honest, I just really want to go there myself. There are always fun things to play with and see; now we have the excuse. "It's my baby--she has been bugging me and bugging me to go see the Children's Museum."
Joseph recently took Perrin and I on a tour of his med school campus and to see Children's Hospital. Most buildings on the campus are really new. The University of Colorado teaching hospital and Children's Hospital are both on campus and were built in 2007. However the 500 building, at the heart of campus, was built in 1941 and used to be an old army hospital. At the time it was the largest structure in Colorado. President Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack while visiting Denver in 1955, and was treated in the 500 building, then called Fitzsimons Army Hospital. He was there recovering for seven weeks. Now you can go and tour the Eisenhower Suite, which has been restored to just how it looked in 1955.
Children's Hospital is awesome. You walk in the lobby, and it looks like a really fun place to be, not a place to fear. They had children's crafts going on in the lobby, they had a teen lounge, and tons of natural light, especially in the areas were the patients actually stay. They seem to really want to make it a place where children and their families feel comfortable and not intimidated by that hospital feeling. There is this great ball machine in the lobby that I could watch for hours--loops, springs, bells, the works. Sure they probably practice really great medicine there--but the ball machine...I'm tellin' ya...
Thrift store shopping for Perrin the other day turned up a little baby scrub top! He he he he. I couldn't resist. So here is a photo of Perrin Clere-Callis MD. I want to get a pic of her in it wearing a stethoscope with the end of it in her hand--hilarious.
Oh! We had sort of a major step with Perrin on Saturday. She was playing on the floor while Joseph and I anchored her wardrobe to the wall. We look over and she is on all fours rocking forward and back! We were so excited--as though she was going to take off like a drag racer all of the sudden.
I am excited for her to crawl, but also thinking how much more vigilant we are going to have to be... There are all sorts of random things laying on the floor or just a foot up. I now see everything in terms of the size of a baby throat. I look around and realize we are swimming in hazards!! How does anyone live to adulthood!? So...thank you mom and dad for all the work you did keeping me alive back in the 80's. Good job--I had no idea.
"Giraffes taste like meat."
2 comments:
You need to get a real close up of Perrin in her medical green shirt. That is so funny.
I loved reading our blog, Leah. (every bit of it!) of course, the pics are great too! giraffe meat...ewww...
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