Harriet—6 months!

Her face on the right makes me laugh.  It’s a little tricky to stand when you’re only 6 months old.

At 6 months, Harriet:

--is still just as sweet as can be.  She does no wrong!  She’s happy about 99% of the time.

--is sleeping through the night!  Well, I should say that I feed her at 7 p.m. and put her down and she doesn’t eat again until 7:00 the next morning.  She occasionally wakes up once, but goes back down right away when Brian goes in and puts a paci in or pats her bum.  Yay Harriet!

--can roll both ways!  This probably helps a lot with the sleeping through the night! 

--has been eating solids for a month now.  This also probably helps with sleeping through the night.  She loves everything she has tried.  Sweet potatoes, applesauce, peas, oatmeal, pumpkin, banana.  She is a messy, messy eater!  She sticks her hand in her mouth the second we put the spoonful of food in her mouth, and then the food smears all over her body.  She is covered from head to toe every single time we feed her.

--makes the silliest noises.  We were at a baptism Sunday and she was making such a happy racket of noise—someone said she sounded like a dolphin.  Between her sweet noise making and Elna being a crazy handful, we were not a very reverent addition to the baptism.  I really like the idea of being involved and having our children grow up being very involved and supportive of those in our church and community, but boy oh boy, it is not always easy!

--loves being held or being in the pack. 

And we love holding her!  Sometimes Hattie will wake up from her afternoon naps about a half hour before Elna wakes up from hers.  I really love it when I get one-on-one time with her, since I get so little of it.  I love it when she nuzzles into my neck and gives me super slobbery kisses—and her smell!  I can’t get enough of her smell.  There is nothing sweeter than the smell of my baby!  We feel so blessed to have Hattie!  She fills us with joy every day!