Iris's first hike and more!

In honor of friend Josh's birthday, we went on a hike: Iris's first! Josh is the father of Hayden, Iris's birth buddy (born on the same day in the same hospital).


Mama and Iris:


Iris and Hayden clowning around:

Iris and Daddy:

Matt, Iris, Hayden, Josh:

In other news, Iris now pulls herself up to standing constantly. Which is all well and good, except when she does it half-asleep in the middle of the night and can't lie down again on her own. We have been having some tough nights with this recent development . . . Our most recent tactic is to put her the sleep sac that we recently got from our cousins to prevent her from standing up. This seems to be working the best. Standing at the cofee table:

We continue to give Iris new foods. She has recently tried carrots, sweet potato and green beans. Daddy decided to experiment with finger foods and gave Iris a bowl of tofu cubes. You can see the result here:

I've been trying to get video up, but am having trouble getting it to load all the way. Check back and hopefully I'll get some up.