Keira loves to fish, for anything. She has discovered that the world is at her fingertips and that all she needs to do is reach out and grab it. She's always happy with what she gets whether it's Mama's hair, a flower, a receipt (she LOVES those) or the wall. Her method is simply to reach out whenever, wherever she has a change. I have to be careful how close I get to anything while I'm carrying her because at any given moment she'll lunge and grab. I don't even think that she has an object in mind that she wants when she goes for it. It's like she thinks, "Hey a new pond, let's see what I can get."

Food is a fun and exciting thing going on now. Keira had her first food, avocado, more than a month ago. After that she had avocado a few more times and some sweet potato, but nothing was regular. We were just feeding her when the opportunity arose and not really getting into it. I kept meaning to make some baby food. I wasn't going to feed my baby food from a jar, I was going to make it at home with love and sunshine. Well it turns out that a mama that holds her baby for all of her naps does not have time to make baby food. So I was at the hippiest of hippy food stores in San Francisco, Rainbow Grocery, and bought some organic baby food. I'm sure that they make it with love and sunshine too. There are only two ingredients on the jar, whatever veggie is in the jar and water, and that make me happy.

Keira's food repertoire is expanding, she eats avocado, sweet potato, butternut squash and carrots. Tomorrow we are going to try peas. My girl loves to eat. It took her a few spoonfuls to get the whole swallowing thing down but now she's a pro. She sucks the food right off the spoon and swishes around in her mouth and swills it down, then she opens up her mouth again like a little bird. It's very cute. She's grabbed the spoon a couple of time and tried to feed herself but she tends to knock the food off. She figured out pretty quick that the best way to get food in her tummy is to let mama do it. According to the various baby books we own, the baby will eat as much as she needs and then let you know that she's done but turning her head when the spoon approaches or pushing it away. According to "them" baby will only eat a 1 or 2 tablespoons of food at the beginning and not to worry, it's enough. So far my baby has never indicated a desire to stop eating. She's been downing a whole jar of food from the beginning. I stop feeding her because we run out.

We are getting ready for our trip to Africa. I have lists and lists of what we'll need. I'm bringing some food just because I don't know what they have there. Yes, I know they'll have food but will the have carrots and sweet potato?