6 Months! (And 9 days...)

I cannot believe you are already 6 months old. You are so amazing in all the things you can do, and everything is adorable. Especially your dinosaur screechy noises and your beautiful smiles.

Listing all your various accomplishments would take forever, but suffice it to say you are incredibly talented.  You have enamored everyone; your doctor, your teachers at day care and everyone who meets you with your winning personality and ninja like serenity in public. Sure, you have had your meltdowns, but even they are easily subdued with your favorite thing (or so it seems to Daddy and me) food! You have tried an liked so many things, things most babies would probably turn their noses at but you love to taste new things.  In fact, you seem frustrated that you do not have teeth yet, because you are VERY persistent about grabbing our big people plates and exploring whatever goodies we are having for our meals!

You had your very first Christmas and Hannukkah and you loved the tree and you also LOVED ripping the paper off the presents! It sure tuckered you out though. 

You are growing so fast- Daddy and I had to lower your mattress on your crib because your teacher showed me a picture of you pulling yourself up on the crib rails! You are sitting up on your own with very few spills and you are all set for crawling, except for that pesky balance problem when you lift an arm to move. Even your doctor was very surprised to see how far along you have progressed.



I've mentioned school twice now.  You are in day care where I work, how lucky are we? That means I can come play with you any time I want and your teacher Marlene thinks you are just awesome.  You are the only girl in your class and there is a little boy Dorian who is 10 days younger than you.  You smile and point at each other, and we think you are helping him grow up faster too. He isn't sitting up by himself yet, but he is finally rolling over on his own!
You went on your very first plane ride with Daddy and got spoiled rotten in North Carolina by your Grandmas, Grandpas, aunts and cousins. Daddy said you were very well behaved and I was so proud, even though I had to stay home and take care of Sydney and Marbles.




You are a perfect mix of me and your Daddy, but sometimes, it seems that you are a Daddy's girl through and through. It makes me sad, but then you look at me with those big blue eyes, smile your perfect smile, and laugh that perfect laugh and I forget all about it. Because you are my girl too. And that's just fine with me. You have becoem a little person now, and there is a lot more of this world to learn about. I'll be there the whole way through, Oli.

I love you so much, I cannot believe it has already been 6 months since the first time I saw you.  I can't believe you haven't always been here.

Sometimes I look at pictures of you from way back then and can't believe you were so much smaller than you are now, and that it was such as short time ago.

Here take a look:

Anyway, I just wanted to get back to this blog to tell you how much I adore you and follow along with your life. I hope you can look at this one day and feel the love. I hope you will like looking at this and knowing what your life was like "way back when". And that your Daddy and I were pretty cool at some point. 

Plants!

Another thing I love, baby, is plants.  All kinds of plants, but I especially love plants that make food! Right now, its cold outside and food doesn't grow very well.  There are special places called farms where they grow lots of food and have big buildings called greenhouses where they can grow food all year around.  There are plants that do better in the cold, like potatoes, beets and green leafy plants like kale and collard greens and they can be outside. I work at a farm and we grow food plants!

I go to school at a place where I learn about trees, which are BIG plants, and pretty other plants that are not for eating. I am able to get small pieces of trees and other plants and bring them home to grow them to make the house look pretty from spring to fall. I also get food plants from work and grow them so we can have fresh food from right in our backyard.


Here are some of the plants I've gathered:

I can't remember what this plant is called, but it's very unusual with it's spotted leaves and I love the little purple flowers that have come up all winter.

This is called a Cissus dicolor, Begonia Vine.  I love the stripes on the leaves and the red veins.  The underside is red also.

This is a Persea americana, an Avocado seedling.  I grew it from that seed you see in the bottom of the picture. It's going to get to be a big tree!

Soon, we'll be out digging in the dirt, planting little seeds together and seeing what grows.  It could be something tasty, or beautiful or both!

Here's a fun song about plants!