halfway to ONE

our little vanya is now all of 6 mths and a week old! how time flies!

she is babbling up a storm these days and just started framing the sound 'amma' (mom in kannada) 'mammmaauumm' 'dah dah dah' and her normal giggling, kackling and mmmms. she's a happy baby and laughs and smiles easily with us at home...but after visiting our friends rille & viktoria, she cried everytime viktoria held her and was fine when rille held her...so we don't know what to make of that. we were hoping to get her used to people more...but we don't know many here and soon she will be heading to the most populated country in the world (almost)..india and will be bombarded with many, many people and a whole new atmosphere from cold, extremely quiet sweden.

vanya is a nonstop girl...pretty active in the kicking dept. when she's got tummy time...she can push herself up with her arms ans sometimes tries to move forward but she's just not there yet.

her menu these days include her formula, banana rice cereal, apple-pear cereal, whole grain cereal mixed with mixed fruit puree, yellow lentils, mashed buttered parsnip, mashed buttered potatos, fresh pear, avacado..these are just the things that she has tasted and some that she eats everyday.

and im doing much better...i think it took all these 6 mths for me to just get back to me...and hoping india will add to the recovery and make it a full circle as i'll have a bit of a break from a lot of duties at home here. but regardless...without JPs love and support i couldn't have made it. also my parents.

so...lets hope i can do a 7 mth update but we leave on the 27th for bombay via helsinki...so i might be posting next from india! :)