Salma is seven months old

Salma is seven months old. The new thing is that she's started to sit on her own.









Salma babbling in the bouncy chair...




Our friend John (see previous post) turned us on to the Svan high chair. It's excellent. And it's great to have Salma "at the table". Of course, now she's inducted us into the age old game of fetch where she throws everything off the side, and we go fetch. She's turning out to be not a fussy eater. She loves sweet potato, carrots, and peas. And of course there's banana and apple sauce. But she's also quite happy to eat spinach. Not so crazy about avocado though...


Feeding herself from a bottle...


With Dayi Ali...

Asa

The little guy on the left is Asa, son of John (aka gOm) and Lara. He's a few weeks older than Salma.





John and Lara are busy remodeling their house nearby and will be moving back into the neighborhood shortly. We're really excited about that.

Mom

OK, so I'm sneaking in some pictures of Zahra...I'm sure you all won't mind :)






The picture in the video is a bit dark, but this is really about hearing Salma laugh.

Nersi and Bella

This post focusses on Nersi and Bella. Admittedly it took Salma a little time to warm up to them. At one point Salma was always crying with Nersi and afraid of Bella. But not anymore... as you can see...