Half a Year!

SteelyKid is six months old today! To celebrate, here's some video of her bouncing around in her jumper:

(That's spliced together from a bunch of shorter clips. You can here me babbling inanely in the background, because my brain turns to cheese whenever I'm within about five feet of her. I was tempted to mute all the audio and replace it with some song or another, but decided it would be too cheesey. Also, I like the happy baby squawk at the end.)

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She sure looks cute and happy. Congrats all around.

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Too goddamn cute.