Portland...

Zuri officially had her 1/2 year birthday while in Portland.  She is becoming such a little "human" as I like to say, with her own personality.  While there she started to learn the annoying skill of dropping an item and crying until we pick it up for her.  Not a fun one.  She was enjoying playing with a spoon in her stroller while we were at the mall and she kept dropping it out of reach and then crying until we gave it back to her.

Zuri was definitely a trooper in Oregon.  She slept really well at night and took some naps during the day.  Probably because she was so exhausted from being at games, which are definitely overwhelming!  The only game she had a problem during was a double overtime game and that was because there was a lot of screaming when we hit shots to put us into two overtimes.  During the games either a parent watched her or a few of my older players.  She seemed to have a good time with my players as seen by one of the many pictures they took with her!

Her flight out was also a really good one.  She slept for a majority of the flight and was happy the rest.  However, her flight back was a different story.  She was tired.  Very tired.  And decided that going to sleep was too much to ask.  So, instead she cried.  On and off the whole flight.  I had to entertain her by having her look out the window or play with my ticket.  Then Pedro had to take her and stand right by our seat with her, just so she wouldn't cry the whole flight.  I can't blame her.  She was tired and had done such a great job the whole trip, it was bound to catch up with us!

Here is my big girl...again her eyes are not usually so huge, it's just the flash!

She was also enjoying holding on to her bottle and trying to put it in her mouth.  Which she can do, but she doesn't understand that she has to tip the bottle to get the milk!

Here is how you travel with a baby...

That is the trunk of our car.  Don't worry, we let her actually ride inside the car most of the time (haha).

Here is another picture from the 4th of July...

When we got home from Oregon, she slept from 930pm until 830am...and is now taking a morning nap after being awake for only 1hr!  Sadly, we leave again in two days for Chicago and although the trip is shorter by a day, we play a lot more games.