Baby, Teeth

It's not the easiest thing getting a picture of these troublesome baby teeth. But after a little coaxing (and many failed attempts) Adrienne finally showed off her new mini-chompers.

Food and Drink

Before Adrienne surprise-gummed-attacked her cousin, she had a crack at some other solids: yummy, watered-down rice cereal. We basically spooned it into her mouth and then she let it fall out. In the end, she wore more than she ate, but it's a step in the right direction.


Dinner is served! Yeah, we would have spit it out also. It looked pretty gross.


Most of it ended up on her shirt and face.


Good thing she's cute...even with food all over her mug.



Adrienne is clearly way more into drinking than eating. Next up: sippy cups!



See the mess progress with a slide show of all delicious action. As you can see, we were obviously torturing her by trying to give her nourishment.

Introducing Adrienne "Kanye" Griffin (Plus, New Stats)

Because no baby blog is complete without pictures of its star in funny sunglasses, here is Adrienne in funny sunglasses doing her best Kanye West impersonation.

Oh, and the new baby stats are:

Height: 26 7/8 inches
Weight: 17 lbs., 4 oz.
Head Circumference: 17 3/8 inches

When Adrienne Attacks!

Easter weekend was quite a time for Adrienne. She ate her first solid food, drank water out of a cup and went for a ride in her new all-terrain stroller. More on all of that later. On Easter Sunday, a second baby photo shoot with Adrienne and her cousin Samantha went only slightly better than the first.

The play by play...


Aww, look at the cousins! How cute! How adorable! They're totally going to be BFFs when they grow up!


However, one baby seems more adorable tasting than the other as Adrienne, having a newfound taste for solid food, makes a play for Sam's head...


...and then she attacks! Adrienne goes all Hannibal Lecter, showing her affection for her BFF by gumming her head. Luckily for Sam, Adrienne only has one partial baby tooth to work with.


Before Adrienne could put her tooth to use, Samantha is rescued (well, right after we took more funny pictures, of course).

Baby and the Easter Bunny

So when we were at the Grove, we decided, rather impulsively, to get Adrienne's picture with a teenager in an Easter Bunny outfit. The staff was very nice and careful with Adrienne and took multiple shots to get the one you see here (others included a lot of sideways and archy back action).

Maybe it was the way she was dressed, but other things the staff said were: "Have him sit over here." "He's so cute." "He's such a good boy!" Okay, you get the, well, picture.

Seems like the Easter dress thing will have to wait until next year.

Baby, I'll Take You Down to Chinatown (or Little Tokyo)

We met up with our friends Nishith and Mina (and other new friends) at Honda-Ya in Little Tokyo. It wasn't Adrienne's first Asian dining experience, but it was certainly the most authentic yet. Some highlights:



Ready for solids--with chopsticks!


Checking out the mall market beforehand.


One day Adrienne hopes to become a samurai just like the guy in the poster.


Doing some window shopping and checking out the plastic food displays.


Adrienne even played nicely with Mina's friends and only snuck a little bit of chopstick paper in her mouth before we found out what she was up to.

Adrienne Discovers Her Toes

One baby, ten toes, ultimate cuteness.