Our little Juniper berry is six months old today! Can it be? Six whole months of growing and changing and learning... Her doctor gave her a perfect bill of health on Friday. She weighs 18 lbs, 9 oz, and measures 27 inches tall. And she barely cried during her vaccine thigh pokies. Such a big girl. I had to fill out all kinds of questions about her "developmental milestones." Between milestones and percentile charts and developmental readiness indicators, pediatricians make baby-growing sound a lot like engineering a pharmaceutical.
I don't know if June is an engineer, but she sure is a reader (ahhh, warms Mama's heart...). Auntie Amy bought her a bunch of Dr. Seuss books and she loves them. She also loves the Mother Goose nursery rhymes that Grandma reads her every day. Reading is important business. She puts on her serious face and settles down to concentrate on the story. In the photo above, she is thoroughly entranced by Dr. Seuss's Circus Mcgurkus. Of course. She tries to turn the pages. She studies all the pictures. And naturally, she already owns more books that most people.
And while we are on the subject of making Mama proud, here is photographic evidence of Juniper eating (and enjoying) zucchini. She eats several vegetables with gusto, but zucchini is particularly notable because her father refuses to even consider ingesting the tasty courgette. He reacts to its very presence in the house with disgust and loathing and pitiable stories of a tortured childhood plagued by forced zucchini-eating. The poor child. However, zucchini is one of my favorite vegetables, and it is my goal to tip the balance of this household in favor of pro-zucchini attitudes. I have visions of a future filled with zucchini - grilled zucchini, roasted zucchini, zucchini soup, zucchini stew, sauteed zucchini, zucchini pasta, zucchini bread, zucchini casserole. So it begins.