Half Birthday

Brigid has reached the very important half-birthday milestone! Of course, this was two days ago, but I haven't had time to sit down and write the blog entry until now, and I even think I'll have to save this as a draft and come back and finish it later as it is.

She's started to roll over with impunity now. She managed one roll over before we went on our big tour of Virginia, but now you really can't put her down on her back and expect her to stay there. You blink and she's on her tummy, trying really hard to scoot herself forward with her legs. She'll be crawling any day now. This is simultaneously great and terrifying, as she will soon be moving around all over the place and trying to injure herself on everything in the house.

She is also becoming curious about food. She's been grabbing the bottle for nearly two months now, but she's really begun to become interested in the solid food she's eating. It started with trying to grab the spoon, but now she seems to realize that the food on the spoon is coming from the cup or the baby food container. She grabbed this cup away from me and tried to eat from it in the only way she knows how—she opened her mouth and waited for it to jump in. When that didn't work, she tried knawing on the outside of the cup. It's very cute, but I think she's just about to figure it out and start dipping her hands in to check things out, ahem, "first hand". Sorry about the pun.

Anyway, it's hard to believe, but it's been a half year since she showed up almost a month before her due date. I hope the two of us have as much fun for the many more half-years we will spend together until she leaves us to go to college. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and teach her how to play with her new exersaucer toy.