Saturday, March 01, 2008

Cora's first bike ride

This morning we had our first-ever family bike ride. It was pretty cool, and the first time I've been on a bike since I got pregnant, so almost two years now.
For Christmas, my parents gave us a bike trailer to take Cora around in, and last weekend we put it together but it was a bit rainy. All week since then, the weather has been gorgeous (we even went in the pool!). Of course this morning for our ride it was a bit cold and cloudy again...
We rode along the paseos to the bike trail, and rewarded ourselves with breakfast at Dink's, a local bagel bakery.
Cora seemed to kind of enjoy her ride - well, she didn't intensely dislike her ride. It was good that we brought along a little bag of cheerios and her doggy book. She enjoyed meeting a few doggies along the way.
On Friday, we Stroller Striders were recipients of a complimentary kids play class at My Gym, which was something like the Gymboree classes we took over the summer. It was fun hanging out with the moms and babies we see several times a week, in a different environment. The class was fun, but just like Gymboree, I have a hard time justifying the cost. It's about $65 a month for four 45-minute classes (plus an additional "free play" time each week). Maybe we'll give it a try in the summer, when it's too hot to play outside.
And on Thursday, we had Cora's one-year well-check. She is well. Cora is now 19 pounds, 8 ounces, which is the 25th percentile - meaning 75% of girl babies her age are bigger than her, and 25% are smaller than her. She is 29 inches long, in the 48th percentile. Her head circumference remains in the 82nd percentile. She also had her measles vaccine. We decided to split the MMR vaccine into the M, M and R rather than getting the combo. There's all sorts of controversy about it, and every official study keeps saying it's safe, but there are so many anecdotal reports of people thinking it caused their child's autism. So, I figure splitting it up will let us rest easier.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Cora will get used to her taxi, it looks a good form of transport, glad she got on ok at docs, speak to you all soon. love you ,big kiss for Cora. Mum and Dad xxxxxxxxxxxxx