Tao Love

Dearest Tao, you are now five months. Wisecalm and very smiley, you love to laugh and you surprise everyone by your mellow easygoing ways. Tao means rushing river, great river and also infinitely generous, friends from Shanghai found us the characters and wrote them, why does this typewriter keyboard not enable me to draw it? Of course it does…   And today you are six months, a day full of laughter as Song jumped and played to make you laugh more. You are a superfast roller now from one side of the room to the other and you want to taste everything, you are so ready to eat, though you have no teeth. We let you enjoy an apple, that is kind of nurse it, smell it, delight in having some like the big kids around you at Quonquont farm. You like to get your hands in things and are conscientious, as far as we can tell. You scooped into a pumpkin and a butternut squash. You squeezed some pizza dough and some pie dough. The world of food is right around the corner. You continue to love being outdoors, to look up into the leaves, to feel the air and feel the grass in your hands. Ba has started feeding you sometimes and is giving me the time and support to do some of the other work in our lives. Song calls you sweet boy and sweet bun, as I do. This family treasures you, admires you and strives to be like you, even as we continue to become ourselves.