Six months in and our daughter is ready to redesign her nursery. Here she is pouring through the CB2 catalogue -- which as the nice woman at Crate & Barrel informed us, is "probably more our speed." Charlotte's version of reading is an intent stare followed by a sledgehammer-like series of punches downward. If something is a truly good story, it receives a series of low fives and the syllable "da," repeated in tiny baby bursts of enthusiasm.

As for the picture beneath, we're thinking martini glasses might come somewhere between meat at eight months and milk at a year -- although stemless wine glasses are always a nice option. I'm not sure what it says about her parents that this is the page she turned to...