6 Months Old-March 9, 2012

Happy Half-Year Birthday our Princess Maribelle!  Where is the time going?  It seems just like yesterday you were born and now, you are half a year old!  We are having so much fun with you and just cannot get enough of you! 

Aside from your pneumonia sickness, this past month has been great!  We have had a lot of down time due to your sickness!  I have become a germ-a-phobic!  I won't let anyone in the house that has been sick, looks sick or has been around someone that is sick.  I know I can't keep every germ from entering, but I am trying my best to keep most of them out!  It's been cold so we haven't been able to go outside any, no sweat since you've been sick anyway!  Needless to say you haven't been back to daycare.  I refuse to take you and you get sick again.  I just can't do it.  I know day cares do their best to keep stuff clean, but as babies, when everything goes straight in the mouth, that just isn't possible.  So your Daddy and I have decided that we are keeping you out of daycare until at least the end of summer.  I just can't risk you being that sick again! 

We have had a great few weeks of snuggling and spending time with you!  You are sitting up on your own wonderfully and rolling everywhere now!  You finally figured out how to roll on the other side.  I'm not sure when you figured this out.  I left the room to do some laundry one day and you were on your stomach and when I came back, you were on your back.....little monkey!  There truly is no stopping you now!  You just roll wherever you want to go! 

Highlights of this month:

• You are rolling EVERYWHERE!!!

• We moved you back into your crib at the beginning of March.  You sleep in there for about half the night and then you end up with us.  I am choosing not to fight this battle right now.  I like my sleep so whatever works for us all getting sleep is the attitude I'm taking right now.  As long as you will sleep in there some, I am content. 
• You are still sitting up on your own wonderfull!  You look all grown up when you sit there and play!
• You are started crying when I leave the room.  Not bad but just a little whimper.  You don't do this with anyone else and I think it's cute!
• We both enjoy taking our naps together everyday!  That's my special snuggle time with you.  That's another battle I don't fight, you taking naps in your crib.....we will cross that bridge when we get there.
• EVERYTHING is still going in your mouth!  It's so bad.  It doesn't matter what it is, you're going to chew on it.....yet you STILL have no teeth!
• You still LOVE bath time.  You would lay in there all night if I would let you.
• You talk and jabber all day long....until you see a camera come out and then you hush!  It's like you know what the camera does and you are bound and determined that you aren't going to be caught doing anything.
• Same thing with smiling....you smile and grin all the time until you see us get the camera and then you stop. 
• You can be very serious at time.  You have these moments when you could stare a hole in someone you are so serious.  I think it's adorable!
• You have become obsessed with the dogs.  You think they are so funny when they jump on the back of the couch or in the chair.  Although they ignore you.  Occassionally one of them will walk by and give you a kiss on the cheek....(yes, this wigs some people out, but it doesn't bother me!) I figure they are showing that they love you when they give you a little lick so I try not to fuss at them unless needed.  I don't want them growing up to hate you and me have to deal with that.
• You love your bouncer.  You are now on the lowest level and we've removed the box underneath.  You are so funny in it and just talk when you are jumping. 
• You also love your walker we borrowed from Aunt Meghan.  You can only go one way and that's backwards right now.  And you are very slow at that but you like playing in it!
• You like to be read to, however, the whole time I'm reading you are trying to eat the book so reading only lasts about page before I just hand over the book.
• You are now going 5 hours inbetween nursing and won't eat not even 5 minutes early most times.  You are PICKY!

We are having so much fun wathing you learn and grow!  You are our little princess and we often times find it hard to imagine what our lives were like before you were in them!  You keep us on our toes and are the reason we strive to be better people!  We wake up every morning looking at you and go to bed every night watching you sleep on the monitor.  You are our angel and we are grateful to God for him allowing us to be your Mommy and Daddy!  We cannot wait to continue to watch you grow.  We love you to the moon and back and all the space in between! 

This is what you think of the bow....

This is what you think of pictures and we aren't even close to being done!

Beautiful!