what to blog about? It's been a while since I blogged...

Joy is 6 months old. She's sitting up and eating rice cereal very well. I tried feeding her some mushed up pears but she would have none of it (absolutely none.) Any suggestions for making homemade baby food very smooth? I think that might have been the problem. Mike is now 317 months old, and I am 320. That's a lot of months. We are also eating our cereal very well; although, sometime we dribble. I eat the mushed up pears that Joy won't eat (tastes good! Why doesn't anyone make pearsauce? (like applesauce?)) Mike only eats pears if I put them right in front of him, but he really really likes soft, sweet, Biang Christmas pears. We've been sitting up for a while, but we're more slouchy and scoliotic than Joy is. And we don't flop over like she does, occasionally.

We're also all a little bit bald. (Ha ha ha...it's true!) I've been losing chunks of hair due to post-partum hormones; I thought it might be stopping, but I still lose hunks and hunks of hair every day. Joy has a nice bald spot from turning her head a lot when she's laying on her back. It looks pretty goofy. In general she's growing hair (lighter than when she was born, for sure;) She has the cutest little fuzzy head, but she has a very distinct bald spot. I was thinking about drawing an eye on it. Don't think I'll do it, though. And Mike's losing hunks of hair because his favorite activity with Joy is to put her on his shoulders and let her eat and pull on his hair. She really likes to put it in her mouth.

Joy's favorite toys are ribbons. She gets really intense when she has one--LOVES sucking on ribbons and tags. She also has a toy horse she's absolutely in love with. And she loves being read to. Mike and I don't really like sucking on ribbons or tags. We like being read to, too, but we don't reach out to gnaw on the books. Mister Collins, will you come over and read us some of Fordyce's sermons?

Speaking of Mister Collins, I just adore the new Pride and Prejudice movie. Mike says that if I can figure out the dance steps, he'll do some of the old dances with me. Ooh, sounds great to me!

Time to pack for New York! Fun fun!