parc jarry in spring (2): the picnic edition

so many days in the park now! it's very convenient because it's close, we can pick something up on the way for picnicking purposes, and we need to get this baby out of the house every day, otherwise i'd go crazy. as soon as i think i'm all ready to do a proper post, another day happens and i get more pictures to add, so this has got to stop now. i'll do a part 3 maybe, cause all the pictures are cute.
yeah, another thing: i want my posts to be more than a display of cute pictures and i feel uneasy when it doesn't happen. the thing is, i am very little an "i" and very much part of a "we" these days. and we are at the same time living from day to day (major tasks every day: deciding what we eat and counting the baby's milks intake) and contemplating big life issues, like where are we going to be living this fall, and will i go back to work, and if so, to what kind of work, etc.
so we wait, and take in the beginning of summer, and try to show the kid around.

sunhat! whenever there is sun, there has to be a sunhat. also, finger-eating

this was my first attempt at a picnic this year (if you've known me for a bit, you will know i'm obsessed with the idea of picnics in the park). i went as far as to make sandwiches and pack a blanket...but, for whatever reason, on that day we only spent half an hour in the park - it was windy too. anyway, here's my sandwich

spotted on the same outing: a group of bartenders (we think) doing an informal workshop of glass handling/juggling/pouring a few meters away from us. with tasting included, i'm sure.

classic picnic next to the fountain - later on, the weather is better.

more picnics and suntanning

and our version, with the sunhat and food

at one point this was my favourite photo of Rada - it changes all the time. but i love the way she frowns in disapproval; that, and her fat little fingers.

posing with the fed child

new day, new outfit: featuring the new sunhat, from her grandma, and the new sandals (still cute even after the cat attacked one of them). i think by this point we've established picnics are better with us sitting at a table: sadly, there are caterpillars in the trees/falling on the grass.

spotted: this couple was practising very seriously the whole time we were there. they are good! also, a number of mothers of new babies, a few of whom i approached simply to ask the age of their kids and sort-of-commiserate/complain.

and my current favourite photo of Rada. the rosiest possible view of our life with her - a true, but not complete, view. for each of these i should maybe post a video of her whining for minutes for no apparent reason. but maybe not.