catchng up

New Hair Cut

Khaleh Ameneh took the scissors to Salma's hair for the first time. She makes a very pretty boy if we do say so ourselves.

One Year Old!!

A whole year already!





Taking stock: At this point Salma seems to really like music, dancing and water. She crawls with gusto. Talks a lot and has a very cute nose-scrunching way saying "let's be happy together". She definitely communicates a handful of words. "Ummm" most importantly, is food. And certainly "Na". She's not the bravest sole... a little more on the sensitive side. Screaming world cup soccer fans will make her cry. She seems to eat most everything, and it all tastes better when shared. She's a joy.

Camping

The weekend before Salma's birthday we went camping with the greater Warda clan in the El Dorado National Forest on Union Valley Reservoir. It was a perfect weekend and Salma loved the outdoors, sleeping in the tent, crawling around in the dirt, and wading in ice-cold alpine lake water. We took the opportunity to celebrate her first birthday with the crowd of fictive kin.

Tupperware

Oh Oh...she's crawling!

She just started crawling this weekend. We just figured she'd skip it and go straight to walking, but she's too foozool to wait for that.










Tash came to visit from Oregon along with Bruce, Bethany, Ben and Monique.

Monique and Ben took lessons from Salma on official form for professional thumb sucking.

Visit with Tash...

Tash came to visit this week from Oregon, which was wonderful. We're looking forward to returning the visit at Camp Sherman.




Salma has definitely been seeming more interested in standing these days. No sign of wanting to crawl, but she does like to hold herself up and have someone help her walk. We also took her swimming for the first time. We went to El Cerrito community pool. She did well. I wouldn't say she's a fish, but she eventually got somewhat comfortable floating on her front...not on her back though. Next time :)

April in Canada

Mommy-joon Jaleh has been staying with us for a while, but is going back to Terhran on Monday. It was absolutely wonderful for all of us, especially Salma, to have her around. Jashun kheli khali khohad bood.




We had a great time in Toronto around pesach. Salma got to visit with lots of cousins including Jacob and Nathan...

and Nevada and Zephron.




Rana was this year's new guest at seder.






We took a walk at the beaches. It was freezing!

Nine months

Well, she's not crawling yet, and doesn't really seem to eager to get up and walk, but she does have fun standing up.
We took another outing to the beach, this time with Khole Ameneh. This time, Salma was a lot more engaged...playing in the sand etc.




Buby and Zaida came for a visit from Toronto, and we all went out to Mangia Mangia for dinner.