Sophie Eats Solids

Here is Sophie eating some very soupy solids for the first time. It was filmed a few weeks ago. We've also tried squash (yummy) and peas (she will not eat them in a house, she will not eat them with a mouse). She is doing slightly better at keeping the food in her mouth.

She also loves to drum on anything she can get her hands on, and would turn this keyboard into a percussive instrument if...only...she...could...reach IT!

In lieu of her keyboard poetry, she would like me to pass along ahhh oooo ahhh ahhh ba bababa ba ba and a few "milk" baby signs. And yes, we just became that kind of blog.

A Baby at the Wedding

Spring took these pictures of Sophie earlier this month at Junebug and Devon's beautiful wedding.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward not tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and bends you with might that the arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as the Archer loves the arrow that flies, so the Archer also loves the bow that is stable.
-Kahlil Gibran