Toads-in-the-Hole

Adelaide is nine months old today! Unfortunately, I do not have a current photograph to show you because our clever, charming nine month-old ate our USB cord thereby rendering our camera-to-computer connection out-of-service for the moment.

Suffice to say, Adelaide is enjoying all that her age brings. She is crawling quickly from place-to-place, deftly using her thumb and index finger to pluck the tiniest bits of fluff and stuff from between the piles of carpeting, eating a variety of solid foods (including chicken, Cheerios, green beans, and Iams Adult Cat Food), and each day delivers a host of giggles, babbles, and baby-style arguments critiquing our novice parenting style.

Sometimes we just stop and wonder about her age; nine months have so swiftly passed. Nine months ago she was tiny, dark-haired, tired, and suspicious of us. And nine months before that ... Well, she was just a little cluster of brand-new cells, poised and ready to make a petite person. Amazing.