Saturday (Part III)

In the evening we celebrated Emily's half-Birthday. It's hard to believe that she is six months old now. The time flies by. To celebrate, we had half a cake, with half a candle. Even the words are only half written on the cake. We sang half the birthday song (though Natalie sang the rest for us) Emily got to try out some rice cereal for the first time as well. We love having Emily in our family. She's such a happy and easy going baby. We did learn yesterday that the red hair gene has to come from both of us. "Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a change in the MC1R protein." (Wikipedia) So two people that don't have red hair can have a redheaded child. That's where it came from, and now when people ask this question (which is every day) we can give the scientific explanation. Posted are a video of the birthday song and cake, as well as Emily's first attempt at eating with a spoon. Always classic.