Day 328: Robert's bday and FBC dinner

We went to Robby's 1st birthday party this afternoon-- today's the actual day! I was very impressed that he likes to eat lettuce (Zaria will pull it out of her mouth). He's apparently a very good eater.

Then we headed downtown to FBC to join with the Community at Calhoun gathering. We missed the lake time, but joined everyone at church for the dinner. It was a tropical theme, so it was very fun and a great time of fellowship. Mandy was walking around taking lots of pictures, so I caught her in the act. I was sad to hear we'd missed three baptisms at the lake. My own baptism was in a lake-- I liked the idea of being in God's creation while taking that step.

Day 246: Forking a mess and quiet waters

Zaria sort of used the fork I gave her, but then she started having fun putting her hands in it, then rubbing her face. Oh, goodness. Later we went for a walk by the lake-- if you look on the other side of the water you can see a couple of deer.

Day 107: Stockings are hung on what?

Zaria just got her own stocking tonight, a gift from "Auntie" Cassie. It's very lovely, but perhaps it's strange that we've hung our stockings up on our china cabinet.
"Their stockings were hung on the China cabinet with care, with hopes that the dishwashers soon would be there."
On another note, Zaria was very sick today. Too much partying, perhaps? Anyway, she ralphed a few times, but seems to be out of danger now, and didn't show any dangerous signs of dehydration. It was interesting because at Mother's Fellowship this morning we volunteered at Feed My Starving Children, and my poor baby couldn't eat today!

Day 69: Hooray!

We had Mom and Dave over for lasagna before looking at a few houses this afternoon. It is so hilarious what a baby can make mature, grown people do. Zaria likes to do the sign language cheer, sticking both hands up in the air and waving them around (this is not something we've taught her, but apparently we've reinforced the silliness). So she got all of us doing it around the table!

Day 26: We don't want no stinking spoon

Just last week Zaria started eating with her fingers. Successfully, I mean. So this morning she didn't want me to feed her with a spoon. She would take her rice and banana cereal from my fingers, but no spoon would be allowed. She was still OK with playing with the spoon (see her left hand).