We began Jake’s 14th month with another hike in Harriman State Park (this time starting, after a lengthy, and ultimately fruitless search for the Suffern-Bear Mountain trailhead, from Kakiat County Park and walking to Grandma & Grandpa Rocks).

On the November 1st, we watched the NYC Marathon from our favorite spot just past mile 20, where the runners come back into Manhattan over the Madison Ave Bridge.

On November 4th, we celebrated America’s return to sanity.

Later in November, Jake’s aunt came to town and she and Dorota took Jake to the Children’s Museum.

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A month of many milestones…

• from this day forward, Jakob will be outside the womb longer than he was inside
• his 8th doubling day was on June 6th (which I didn’t remember until today)
• in honor of the doubling day, he began crawling
• once crawling, he quickly figured out how to climb the 2 stairs out of the sunken living room (I think it took him all of 3 days) - crawling back down isn’t happening yet but he is giving his skull a testing
• he’s also standing while holding onto whatever will let him stand (the chest in front of our couch, low chairs, people’s legs)
• he’ll eat just about anything given to him (so far, the favorites are pickles and watermelon)
• still no sign of his top teeth, but given the increased screaming of late, I’m guessing they’ll be in any day now
• his 2nd trip to Harriman State Park
• our 1st Fathers’ Day

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On April 25th, we took a walk in the woods at Harriman State Park. Click the map for pictures of our hike. I’m a big fan of the Sherpani baby carrier. We hiked for 5 hours - Jake enjoyed the sights, slept a while, and was generally good about being a passenger. We finished the hike, like all good hikes should end, with a delicious diner meal (at the Center Diner in Peekskill).