Really, really good weekend. We went to MDI and basically recreated our daytrip of August last year, only with a bigger Ingrid. I also managed to pick up a pair of luxury baby shoes for half off, which was very exciting, and Ingrid LOVED the ocean, sat right down in it and let the wavies wash over her. Pics at flickr, of course. I tested out my new point and shoot (Canon SD1000) which was deliciously tiny, but my memory card hasn’t arrived yet, so I was stuck with the 32mb card that came with it, and lots of editing and taking small res pics, and whatever, but oh well. It was fun! Great way to beat the humidity that was swamping us, too.

Today we went to the American Folk Festival, an annual event on the waterfront, and that was okay. Ingrid took the longest nap EVER, over two hours, and only woke up because we really wanted to get to the festival so we sort of increased the volume of walking around usptairs and such, but when she woke up, she was ALLL about walking. We parked at my MILs, and visitied for a minute, and she didn’t crawl but once, instead, walking all around. Wild. The fair itself was okay, we had lunch (always good) but the music isn’t really our scene, and we couldn’t find a good spot for Ingrid to see unless she was being worn, so it was mostly a nice walk on a nice day.

Both days, though, babywearing ruled the day, with Dave carrying her in the patapum. We were talking about the evolution of Ingrid, how last year she was on mama’s front, and pretty unaware of stuff going on, and this year she was on Daddy’s back and more aware, and next year she’ll be on her own two feet and dancing! Hopefully. Last year, too, I was poking Dave everytime I saw a parent pushing an empty stroller with one hand while balancing a baby on their hip with the other hand, and this year, it was Dave. He was totally blown away that Ingrid was the *only* baby we saw being worn. I’m pretty sure he got some longing looks from other dads (mostly the pushers of empty strollers) and he loved it, so it was cool to be out there showing that there is an alternative.

And on a totally different note, Andy sent me this youtube video, but this link includes the transcription, and oh. my. god. So fabulously awful.

http://scarletwords.com/2007/08/26/miss-teen-south-carolina-was-robbed/