Six Months - Happy Half Birthday To Me!

Today was my half birthday, and guess what I got to do...eat real food!!

It was a pretty eventful morning! I woke up to my mama and daddy singing Happy Birthday to me, and then I was placed in my Bumbo and a bib was attached to my neck. And then it was time!!! My first real food: rice cereal.



It is this white flaky stuff that you mix with milk. My mama mixed my cereal up in my porridge bowl while my daddy set me up in my Bumbo chair. My mama fed me with my long, tiny silver spoon, and my daddy took photos and videos.



Then my daddy fed me some, too!



I made all sorts of funny faces, but I certainly liked my cereal.



Hayley even tried to help me eat it. She sat right underneath the table the entire time hoping I would throw some bites her way. And I did try when I attempted to feed myself.




After a morning nap (sort of), my mama and daddy took me to the Dallas Zoo. It was a beautiful warm January day (rare for this time of year), and they thought it was time for me to see some animals.



I mostly just chilled and rode in my stroller, but my daddy let me ride in my Baby Bjorn, too.



I saw lions, cougars, tigers, flamingos, giraffes, elephants, and many more types of animals. I even saw lemurs...like King Julien! They were pretty funny!



Then I went and visited my Aunt Chan and Uncle Tripp. They played with me, and then we went to get sushi for supper. I didn't have any. I suppose cereal is all I get for a little while. Bummer...but it sure is delicious!!

January 2011 in Photos

My Monster Faces

Since I am in the mode of teething, I make all kinds of funny faces. My most recent pose is my monster face!

Sitting Up!

I can sit up now, and boy do I like my new independence! I only fall backwards when I get a little too wiggly or someone walks past me and I try to watch them.

Sweet as baby Jesus!

...and I suppose that is why I was asked to play Him. Every year, the University Christian Church on Texas Christian University's campus hosts the Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival. It's a pretty big deal!

Over 300 cast members perform the old, English story where the killing of a boar symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. The second half of the performance is the Nativity story. The church usually chooses a family with a new baby to play Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. This year there was a last minute cancellation, and the church needed a replacement.

My Grand and Grandpa's friends, the Costas's, were in charge of replacing the missing Holy family. Well, wouldn't you know that I just happen to be a family friend and a new baby?!?!

We had our own dressing room! I just kind of chilled out while I was waiting for my "big moment."


It was a pretty big deal. My mama, daddy, and I were dressed in costumes and escorted into a tryptich. When the music swelled and the doors opened, my mama passed me (NAKED!!!) up to my daddy who held me up to all those kneeling below me. It was pretty surreal....that's a new word in my vocabulary.



Afterwards, all of the children in the cast kept coming up to me and asking my parents if they could see the baby Jesus. Again...it was pretty surreal....but a cool experience.

Happy New Year

The week of New Year my Mamie and Papa Daddy came back to visit me. January is my Mamie's and Papa Daddy's birthdays so my mama made a special dinner, and then they had cupcakes to celebrate. Wish I could have had a cupcake! :)


We played with some of my new Christmas toys and went for walks. My daddy put me in my jumper. At first I wasn't sure what to do with it, but then my mama put some shoes on me to help me get some traction. It was so fun! I like to jump, jump, jump, jump, .....



On New Year's Eve, they stayed home with me so my mama and daddy could go out. We had a good time! I didn't stay up until midnight (and neither did my Mamie and Papa Daddy), but I woke up shortly afterwards...and then again and 3:30...and then again at 5:30.... My mama and daddy said that it was a long champagne-hazed night. Cheers!