Birthday Girl

Sorry these are late, but come on...

 cake credit: the amazing Amanda Savrda

photo(s) credit: the incomparable Ross Hornsby

this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death

All this was a long time ago, I 
remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, 
certainly, 
We had evidence and no doubt. I had 
seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; 
this Birth was 
Hard and bitter agony for us, like 
Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these
Kingdoms, 
But no longer at ease here, in the old 
dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their 
gods.
I should be glad of another death.

from T. S. Eliot's Journey of the Magi

Sleepy head

Happy girl

So happy to be pulling on her Mama's legs

Happy Birthday DaDa

Adventures in baby-fooding

Here is our first adventure into baby-fooding for JMC, butternut squash. A special thanks goes to my sweet friend from work, Nicole, for giving us the squash from her family garden. 

She doesn't really understand what's going on. She just knows her parents insist upon taking pictures of her with vegetables.

Semi-curious

Now she is really interested.

Very excited to get have this stuff cooked up and ready to be blended.

Judith Marie refused to have her photo taken with the secret ingredient, as a form of protest. Note: babies do not understand delayed gratification. Obtaining this (and in her presence, nonetheless) was seen as an act of betrayal. 

"You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you..." 

And voila! The finished product. We are excited to let JMC try one out in about a week. It's crazy to think that little Miss is going to be six months old!!

We'll keep you posted on how she likes it. 

Baby's first swing

Loved it.