Afternoons with Iris are my most favorite parts of the day. Walking through her classroom door at daycare is the usual highlight because once she spots me across the room, she literally cracks up laughing. I’m told that she smiles and laughs all day long, but I’m sure she has her fussy moments too. Lately on the drive home I’ve been trying to teach her to say “ma ma”… but because I’m working so hard on it, it will probably be the last thing she ends up saying. We recently started giving her a third meal of solids in the early evening, along with some little snacks. She’s gotten so good with eating! She opens her mouth for every bite and gets very impatient if you don’t feed it to her fast enough. Once she’s eaten her dinner, we try to spend the rest of the evening outside if the weather is nice (lately it’s been amazing). Whether it’s on our front porch or on a blanket in the backyard, Iris loves rolling around, scooting backwards, babbling ,and trying to put everything she can in her mouth. She is damn determined to have a fist full of grass for dessert.