Saturday, February 14, 2009

New tricks from Nebanon

Some days we call Freya the ambassador from the planet Nebanon, visiting us from a distant galaxy. That's a reasonable explanation for her curious behavior as she continues her exploration of our world:

Yesterday's boring toy today is the. most. fascinating. thing. in. the. world. She also delights in setting up what can only be described as experiments in adaptive management. As in, "let's see what my parents will do when I surprise them with rapid full-body flips from my back onto my tummy!" That's right, after it took us about 2,000 diaper changes to figure out how to change Freya's diaper to her satisfaction, she now insists on us doing it back to front. And by insist I mean scream at the top of her lungs if we dare to flip her back.

So our mutual anthropological exploration continues. Steve has talking to stalking her with his video camera like Richard Attenborough used to go after wildlife in Africa. More on that soon. In the meantime, here are a a couple of recent impressions:


Here is Steve giving in to Freya's telepathic command to put her on the Kitchen counter.


And here she is testing the new hands-free feeding device Ingrid constructed. It's a poor substitute for the 3 servants royalty is fed by on Nebanon, but it'll do in a pinch.

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