The Outdoors

We didn't manage to build the stroller yesterday.  It looks closer to completion, because we got it out of the box, and it's pretty much built except for the wheels.  Unfortunately, the wheels are fairly important components of a stroller, and a lack of wheels does seriously impact the stroller's usefulness on a walk.

We have, however, other means of baby-conveyance.  We bundled M up in a very cute hat (courtesy of Caty) and a blanket, FDR-style, over her knees, put her in a sling and headed out.

 

She is, strangely, much easier to carry this way than when internal.  Her reaction to this great adventure, this first trip outdoors merely for the sake of being outdoors, was to fall asleep the moment we set foot on the back steps.  On the one hand, I feel that it shows a lack of appreciation for nature, but on the other hand, I appreciate that the sling lulls her to sleep.   

And she looks very cute asleep in the sling.  I'm assuming that the moons and stars are actually occult, sleep-inducing symbols.  It seems the best explanation for its soporific effect.