Ireland
Zoe, Margaret and Sam spent a week in Ireland with Sam's parents. Sam and Margaret were attending the IETF meeting.
Zoe travels well. She enjoyed the new sites of Ireland and the attention of her family there. She continues to be more mobile: she can get her knees under her, but cannot quite crawl. However her lack of crawling does not stop her from exploring. She is quite good at rolling to where she wants to be and can also pull herself along.
Zoe is looking forward to being able to eat more types of food. She's very interested in everything that people eat and is quite convinced that we're all keeping the good stuff away from her. Which, of course, we are. She has her six-month checkup this Friday and will be able to eat more foods after that.
Zoe continues to improve her verbal skills. She is now babbling quite happily. She knows there are syllables; she's even beginning to understand that they go together in words. Someday soon, she may explore the idea that words have meaning.