big pictures

New tricks:
More wonderful fun. We're starting to try giving Karen food. she hasn't been at all interested in the usual "starter foods" (banana, avocado,  anything on a spoon, etc) so we just keep experimenting. So far, she likes chocolate (I only let her lick it a few times, but it's clear she's my daughter) and carrots seem to hold promise although she didn't eat much. Karen LOVES chicken bones--we strip a chicken bone clean (this is Ari's specialty) and give it to her.  Motor skills: she has successfully pulled herself up to standing, but doesn't do it much and she doesn't have the balance to maintain it. She's starting to be able to propell herself accross the floor, slowly and with much frustration, on her stomach. Sort of a very inefficient "commando crawl" type thing, or maybe like an inchworm. She's able to get herself from sitting onto her hands and knees, but she doesn't know what to do then except fall down on her stomach. I'm starting to childproof the house. The first thing that was really clear was that we didn't have a good space on the floor for her to play, so I moved the rug out into the salon and that's where she is most of the time now.
 

We've got this bandana we use to play "where's Karen" and one day I tied it on her head. It wasn't so cute, really

OK, maybe a little cute.

Cute crooked face.

Eating a chicken bone

more chicken bone

Beth and Karen sitting on the floor brushing our teeth.

Karen loves the toothbrush, and she usually gets the right end in her mouth, but she doesn't do much brushing.