yeah yeah yeah yeah - Zara @ 6 months 3 weeks

• Zara continues to be a doll. An easy baby. I love her smile and her sweet personality.

• She lights up when Jamie, Sofia or I are in the room. It can't get any better than that, can it?

• She is sitting up now. I still put her in the middle of a pile of pillows, boppy and blankets for safety, but for the most part she is sitting up without toppling over.

• We started her on solid foods: rice cereal. Then some rice crackers called Mum Mum. Then a mashed sweet potato. That did not go too well. She threw it all up with lots of the breast milk she just just drank. Maybe she was too full or the texture of the potato was too irritating. So we tried jarred organic sweet potato. She loved that. I have peas and winter squash on deck. Bananas and avocado as well.
  

• I've also noticed that her babbling is resembling words. I think I heard a "dadda." And a "yeah yeah yeah." Up until now, she shrieks and yells, but her noises are becoming decidedly more word-like.

what we did on jamie's 40th

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Originally uploaded by cayla73

Yup. This family likes to eat. Plus we like our toys. (see Jamie's haul on the bottom left of the layout).

It was a great day. Lots of food. Ha!
Too bad Zara got a little fussy at dinner.
But my food did not get cold. A knowing waiter (turned out he was the head manager) kept my food warm for me while i tried to unsuccessfully feed and soothe zara in the bathroom. Poor kid was tired and just wanted to sleep, but there was an awful lot of racket going on at El Gaucho. I had to send Sofi back down to the table (down a long flight of stairs) TWICE to fetch a diaper and then the pacifier.

But I returned to my seat with Zara semi-soothed, handed her off to Jamie and finished most of my meal. We even got through the complimentary fruit/cheese/cracker course (who can eat after all that steak?) AND the dessert before she woke up again. We then made a hasty exit.

When we got home, I fed Zara while Jamie put Sofi to bed. He fell asleep in her bedroom, so no late-tv-watching for us! So here I am blogging after midnight.

Happy Birthday Jamie!

p.s. we also shot several movies with our new Flip! When I figure out how to upload them to the blog, I will!