A quick Nina update, which I’ve become too busy lately to provide very often: Our sweet, chubby babe is now six months, and eating solid food, commando crawling (dragging herself tummy-down along the hardwood floor) and becoming a big fan of peekaboo and pillow-hugs (my baby-friendly version of a pillow fight). Here’s a video of her eating sweet potatoes, which she liked but didn’t love. Today, a few days later, I fed her mashed avocado — guacamole, I guess — which was a huge hit. She opened her mouth wide as the spoon approached, and she kept almost all the mush inside.

She recognizes me from afar now, and she cries when I come home from work — not when I leave. It’s as if in this instant that I walk in the door, she realizes that I’ve been gone and wants intensely to be with me, which is of course incredibly flattering and daunting. I think that this, more than anything so far, makes me feel like a mom.

And Daddy’s feeling more like a Dad, perhaps. Today, Dec. 7, 2008, Nina was rolling around on the bed after a bath and said “Da-da” for the first time, or something that sounded very much like it!

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