Fin wide awake on last night’s flight from YVR to LAX. Fortunately, he was in a decent mood for 90% of the flight, helped by the important task of emptying the seat pocket of never-ending safety cards, magazines, menus and sick bags. Towards the end of the flight, his crankiness ramped up a little, and our new magic weapon was produced: a thunderbird puppet. Not the British Thunderbirds*, but the North American mythical Thunderbird instead (photos to follow).
*Thunderbirds are go!
Two emerging top front teeth could explain Fin’s recent spell of crankiness and loss of appetite.
He now has the necessary tools to finish his favourite arrowroot biscuits instead of ditching a soggy, gummy biscuit.
And we’re looking forward to increasing his repertoire of finger foods.
Finlaggan went for his very first bicycle ride* today! We went around the nice and flat sky wall around Stanley Park in the mist. He enjoyed watching the fellow cyclists, pedestrians, quacking ducks and honking container ships. He also made some friends at Milestones in English Bay where his greedy parents enjoyed a prime rib au jus sandwich (foreground).
And the jus of the title is the inevitable snottery leakage from the cold bébé’s nose, mixed with the drizzle that he bravely sat through to satisfy his parents’ desire to get his new rain gear properly wet and feel justified in having bought a rain suit for a baby who lives in dry, sunny LA.
*Photographic evidence to follow when the Eye-Fi can be convinced to talk to the travelling laptop.
“I’ll have the wanton mein and yu pein jook please.” @ McNoodle House, Richmond, BC.
多谢 to Uncle SW for all the top-Vancouver eats!
Fin needs to wear a waterproof suit to drink water.
