Talitha loves to dance and wiggle - lately her stage of choice is the kitchen table. Our normal go-to dance music is T-Rex but during this video she happens to be dancing to Grimes. She’s just swaying back and forth, but I think it’s so sweet!
Talitha loves to dance and wiggle - lately her stage of choice is the kitchen table. Our normal go-to dance music is T-Rex but during this video she happens to be dancing to Grimes. She’s just swaying back and forth, but I think it’s so sweet!
We went to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival for the third year in a row a few weeks back (here’s years 1 & 2). Last year it was Tilly’s first concert, and I hoped to recreate the magic. To be honest, maybe music festivals aren’t the best fit for us right now. It was a mile walk there, super crowded and hot and loud. Miraculously Tilly napped in her stroller, but once she woke up she was cranky and not into it at all! Didn’t she realize Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band were singing directly to her?
I loved the Hipstamatic photos I took last year so I tried to recreate some shots this time around. I can’t believe how dark Tilly’s hair was back then! Here are some then and now pictures.
Gosh, has it really been 2 weeks since my last post? Geeze Louise! Here’s what we’ve been up to:
This weekend marked our 3 annual trip to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park. It’s that amazing FREE music festival put on by banjo-enthusiast millionaire Warren Hellman. I’ve heard that 750,000 people attended the 3 day soiree, and that over 100 bands performed.
Being that we had a 4 month old baby in tow, we decided to really streamline our experience. Saturday we hung out at the Star Stage and watched Merle Haggard w/ Kris Kristofferson, followed up by Irma Thomas. Then Sunday I walked over early with Tilly and set up camp at the Banjo stage… Josh & some other friends came a few hours later, in time for the Blind Boys of Alabama, Ralph Stanley (that man of constant sorrow), and the first bit of Emmylou Harris. CAN YOU BELIEVE ALL THAT GREATNESS?? Talitha’s first concert was a doozy! Here are some pictures I took on my phone throughout the weekend (the first one is of my lovably freakish little brother John!):
For the past month or so, Tilly has had meltdowns almost every evening around 6pm. I guess this is a normal thing, according to my mom and mom-in-law, and I just have to be prepared to eat dinner standing in the kitchen for the next year or so…
We’ve tried lots of remedies (including her vibrating chair, a bath, swaddle, etc), but our favorite meltdown cure is a Bob Marley dance-a-thon. I think it must be the gente rhythm and overall cheerfulness of the music… Tilly loves it! Sometimes we hold her and dance to the beat, other times she lays on our bed and we dance like goofballs in front of her and make her giggle. It’s weird to me that she already finds things funny at this age – I didn’t expect it but I’m welcoming it with open arms and doing everything I can to make her laugh.
Have you experienced this early evening meltdown? What kind of solutions have worked for you? I’m dying to know!
Here are some pictures I snapped at the recent Fleet Foxes show at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur… I know!! Remember when we saw the Tallest Man on Earth play there last year?






40.5 weeks.
5 days overdue! Baby come out and introduce yourself!
It’s still hard to believe I could go into labor at any minute. I pretty much feel the same as I’ve felt the past few months. I’ve been taking it easy this week, and never straying too far from home/the car just in case. A few nights ago we got to see one of our favorite bands, Architecture in Helsinki, play a free show at the Amoeba records a few blocks from home. It was so great! We bought their album & had the whole band sign it. They were so excited to hear that the baby held out a few days so we could make it to the show, and wished us the best of luck. It was like a dream, so magical!
My mom’s in town now, waiting for the special delivery. Today we went to the dog beach for a few hours and then went to the giant Nordstrom downtown, it was fun & I got a lot of walking in! I’ll sleep well tonight.
So, unless I go into labor tonight, I’m being induced tomorrow night! So excited!! I have a fetal monitoring appointment at 2, and then we’re scheduled to go to the hospital at 6 to get things moving and shaking. She’ll most likely be born on Tuesday. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel! For both of us, but more literally for her… :)
So full of light & love!!
Here’s a photobooth shot that josh and I took at Soul Night at the Elbo Room in February. It was one of the highlights of my pregnancy, we had so much fun staying up late dancing to the 60’s LPs. I’ll never forget the way Josh looked at me that night, he was in Heaven. So was I, come to think of it.
Today’s been a blah kind of a day, so I’m turning it around with good memories!