College Bound at Six Months Old

They say you've got to start planning early for your child's college, I really hope six months makes the cut. OK not exactly, but one Sunday we had nothing planned and decided to take the opportunity to drive over to Berkeley and visit Joe's old grad school stomping grounds at Cal, though in true Givens form we mostly just wanted to go eat some of the delicious local food.

Believe it or not, I'd never seen the Berkeley campus so Joe was excited to show me (and Hailey) around.

Let the Campus Tour Begin!

Some really big tower ;-)

Proud Papa

Shhhhh! Library

Library Shenanigans

Joe wanted to play with the Google 360 feature on his phone

This was the end result

What's a campus tour without campus swag?

It was an awesome tour by an even awesomer tour guide. But fear not Bruins, I'm still making Hailey check the UCLA box when she fills out her UC application in 17 years ;-)

All that walking really works up an appetite! Nothing like a little Top Dog to fix that!

Hailey slept right through it. I would too if I couldn't eat meat yet.

There's a hot dog underneath all that goodness...

And to top it all off, ice cream sandwiches!

Ice cream's not on her food list yet either, so she kept sleeping

Yum

Not QUITE Westwood, but all in all it was a pretty fantastic family day in Berkeley!

Little Girl, Big Stroller

At about six and a half months old, we decided it was time to let Hailey try out her stroller, minus the infant carrier. It went a little something like this...

Her feet barely make it to the knee part of the stroller LOL but, she absolutely loved the new view and being able to see everything in front of us as we walked. There's a giant park just down the street from our house, so we took her there in her "new ride"

And what's a trip to the park without some good ol' fashion tummy time on dad?

I swear, she normally loves this.

Not so much? OK, time to bring out the big guns. Nothing works better than airplane time, or as we like to call it, Hailey-copter time.

Nice face, kid.

 I swear, we don't torture this kid. The camera just catches her at some of the weirdest times, lol. That's OK though, we played on the matt for the rest of the time and she enjoyed that.

Hangin out at the park with Dad

Before we headed home, we stopped at the park to watch the crazy kids and get a glimpse into Hailey's park-climbing future.

Park fun!

Man, I really hope she doesn't end up being that kid lying face down in the sand.

Down with Sitting Up... Sorta

Here you have it folks.... for the first time UNassisted.... she SITS UP!

Well, kind of. It lasted about eleven seconds until she teetered over to the side (smiling), but we're still counting it. And of course of all days for this to happen, she's wearing an orange and leopard print jacket, leopard print pants, pink socks and yes... ONE rainbow striped mitten. I'm gonna go ahead and blame daddy for this fashion tragedy ;-) 

And one more close up for good measure.

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