happy love

Frida is 13 lbs, 12 oz. And just over 25 inches long. For comparison: Sam was 15 lbs, 9 oz. at TWO MONTHS. The load of fuzzibunz (cloth diapers) I bought from Craig's List before she was born, which is supposed to fit from ca. 15 through 30 lbs, which I figured would be most of her diaper-wearing life? Still too big. Nobody's worried: she is happy and energetic and rolling and smiling and doing everything six-month-olds are supposed to do. She's just little. Maybe she takes after her Grandma (she certainly has her startle reflex (-: ).

But she's been cleared for just about all solid foods-- veggies, fruits, cereals, meat, salmon-- and as much as she will eat. So, twice a day or thereabouts, this is what Bean looks like:





(This was peas, with rice cereal.) Isn't that a beautiful sweater? Somebody knitted it for my brother or for me, and my mother saved it. Sam didn't wear it because he was allergic to wool-- and it probably would have been small for him-- but Beanie wears it all the time.

Yesterday I tried to take some better pics of Frida, and to capture her thousand-watt but tough-to-photograph smile. This came closest:



Mostly though she wanted to roll around and play:





(Sometimes I think she looks a little like Uncle Markus did when he was a baby-- slightly Asian-shaped eyes, but fair and with fuzzy blond hair-- which is kind of funny because his baby Emma looks a little like I did as a baby.)


As usual, Sam wanted in on the action:




I made heart-shaped pancakes this morning, in a stab at mom-geekery. With raspberry syrup (i.e. raspberry jam microwaved with a bit of orange juice). So cute:




Felt balls! The blue one with the orange-red heart has "XOXO" going around it, and Sam's has a heart on the back and another spiral on the bottom: