Today is Maria’s 7-month birthday! She’s done a lot of traveling in the last month: traveling back to her birth-room (top picture), leaving her birth country, and flying to her passport country. Maria was a bit rough during the plane ride – she gave up sucking her thumb for some reason and ended up nursing a lot.

Maria loves people – she smiles lots. She’s started eating solids a bit, but prefers to feed herself, which is hard at this stage. After a week of being in the States, Maria is still not on the right time zone. She tends to want to play at 1am or 3am for quite a while. But she’s not sleeping much during the day either, so I’m kinda stumped on how to completely switch her over. Yesterday she didn’t want to play until 3am, so we’re making progress.

Maria is fast at army crawling and fast at grabbing things – watch out. Love this little girl of ours.