Welcome To My Life

Can you believe it?  My baby, 6 months old.  She's halfway to her first birthday! Noooooooooo!

She such a blast at this age, but the thought of her walking just around the corner (and trust me, she will) and turning one is a little more than I'd like to take right now.   Since she's likely my last baby, I'd kinda like her to slow down a bit, but I guess life doesn't do that huh?

So, a 6 month report....she's a fast crawler now!  Loves to try to find paper and eat it.  Fascinated with the cats.  And very tolerant of her older (rougher) brother.  When she stands, she balances very well for her age, hanging on with one hand like a pro.  She turns and looks around while doing this, and it looks like she's going to just walk away. She's eating mroe foods now, loving her fruit and sweet potatoes.  She's a hungry girl these days, but I guess that comes with her activity level.  Her 6 month check up is on Tuesday, so more on her stats then!

I know it's been quite a while, but I have lots of pictures as peace offerings, so don't shoot!

Whew, the days have been flying by.  We sold our business which is taking up a lot of my time, and I should actually be working on stuff for the transfer right now, but I am taking the time out for all my readers! 

Marcus has had an exciting time.  We went to the zoo last weekend again and we spent 5 long exhausting hours chasing him around the zoo, snapping pictures, and pausing just long enough to catch our breath beforehe was off and running again.  There are lots of pictures in the gallery for today.  We walked the circuit twice, took the train once (boy was Marcus ever happy about that!  see the grin in the train pictures) and took the bike around once.  And this time we didn't have a runaway adventure with the bike!!

Emmaline seems to be calmed down a bit, napping consistently, and sleeping much better after our recent sleep training.  I can now get her to bed within 30 minutes instead of 4 hours at bedtime!  This means much more sleep for me.  Some nights she will sleep through, but most we get up once between 3-5am for a feed, but right back to sleep.  I cannot tell you how happy she is now that she's sleeping more! 

Marcus is starting...preschool!!!  I was able to register him for the 3 year old class because he does turn three before the year end, and he's potty trained.  I knew that the potty training would come in handy! haha  I will now have 2 mornings a week with just little Emmy.  Oh how wonderful this is going to be!  2 more weeks!

OK, on to the pictures, there are lots and lots of new ones in this album.