Digging Supervisor

We currently have a mote along one corner of our house.

Chris is working on finishing the basement, but before he can sheet rock he has to fill in the couple cracks in the foundation. He rented an excavator this weekend to do some of the digging, but he still had to do quite a bit the old-fashioned way with a shovel. Natalie and I supervised.

Relaxing

Natalie leaned back and propped her feet up last night to watch Chris and I clean up after supper. Enjoy it now, little girl. You'll have to help with the dishes too someday.

Post-Nap Photo Shoot

Now that Natalie can push herself up to sit, I find her sitting up in her crib after her naps. She was in such a good mood when she woke up the other day that I decided a photo shoot was in order.

Giggle Box

Natalie loves to laugh. She used to only laugh when I tickled her, but these days she thinks I'm pretty funny. Baby giggles are the best.

6 Months

Today is Natalie's half birthday.

Those are the only two smiling pictures I could get. Who wants to sit and smile when you could be crawling and playing?

 At six months old Natalie:

• weighs 18 pounds, 9 ounces (95th percentile), and is 27.6 inches long (97th percentile). The doctor was so proud of her for being so big and healthy. Why can't adults get praised for weighing more than all of their peers?
• jumps and laughs when she sees herself in the bathroom mirror. This has become my fail-proof Natalie-mood-changer. When nothing else seems to calm her down, we head to the bathroom to jump on the counter and laugh at the baby in the mirror. 
• has two teeth. They aren't quite all the way in yet, but the painful part of breaking through is over. I thought I would miss her gummy smile once it was gone, but I think I love the sight of those two tiny teeth even more than I loved her gummy smile.
• crawls all over the house and pushes herself up to sit.
• loves blueberry applesauce, carrots, and bananas, and hates avocados.
• gives Chris the biggest, happiest smiles when he gets home from work. 
• is slowly but surely growing her hair back. The bald spot is gone!
• pulls up to kneel and sometimes stand. Every time she pushes herself up to stand I get both proud and sad. How in the world is my baby growing up so quickly?

What a blessed six months we've had.

Crawling Favorites

I love that Natalie is crawling now. She is so much happier now that she can get to where she wants to go, and being able to crawl has made her personality even cuter. My heart melts every time she crawls onto my lap, and I absolutely love seeing her little smiling face peeking around the corner after she has followed me into the other room.

Special Delivery

We do a lot of online shopping, so the UPS man knows us well. When Natalie and I answered the door this afternoon, he said, "It's me again!" 

 

This time the package was for Natalie, and the box was many many times her size.

It required some assembly, but the girls were able to put it together without the resident engineer.

The finished product!