As you know, we Floridians can never let cold weather go to waste. If we're lucky, we'll get a few days of winter reprieve and then end up right back with sweltering temperatures and oppressive humidity. Lucky for us, we just happened to get a bit of that reprieve this past week! The best part? We finally got to take you for long walks in the stroller!
With your retinopathy still present, though, your eyes are quite sensitive to direct sunlight, so trips in the stroller thus far have taken the form of old school video games. To evade the sunlight, we bounced around through the shadows of trees, dodging the sunbeams that pierced the limbs and pine needles. Wherever there were long stretches of exposed road, we'd kick it into high gear and sprint for the shade or turn the stroller around entirely and walk in reverse.
Our walk this morning, however, was a bit more relaxed. The day was still young when we set out. The sun still slept behind the horizon. You peered around from your seat in the stroller at the sounds of the early birds as they chirped away the stillness of night. Normally, you would have grunted or growled on occasion, but this time, you didn't make a single sound for the entire two mile walk. I couldn't help but to wonder what was bumping around in that 5 month old brain of yours. I've always been put at ease by the places that are between places--- Dawn and Dusk; inter-tidal zones and foothills; the summer and winter solstices--- and I wondered whether somehow you felt the same way.
Ahahaha! That made me laugh. We totally did the whole running between shade or going in reverse. Xander is still pretty sensitive to sunlight and now when it hits his eyes when we are riding in the car he will say "Sun, get out of mama's car!" He often wears sunglasses and asks for them when it is too bright.
ReplyDeleteEllie is getting so big! I mean long not wide. ;) So great to see.
Lol, yeah, when she gets some sun in her eyes she acts as though she's being squirted in the face by a water bottle :-)
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