Unpacking the Heart

This last month has been so busy it seems like it zoomed by!  From 6 month pictures, St. Patrick's Day, season of Lent, and various and sundry events I don't feel like we have had a moment to breathe.  From the looks of it, this next month will be the same!  Elliott is growing and changing so quickly and she is developing such a neat personality.  She is trying to figure out her boundaries and trying to figure out just how much power she has...lol.  When I leave the room it is a total meltdown....she even fusses if Matt is still with her.  It is both sweet and obnoxious.  lol.  Things Elliott can do: *sit up on her own *shimmy on the floor  - by shimmy I mean wiggle until she travels somewhere, whether or not it is the direction she really wants to go *hold the bottle when she wants to *laugh when she toots or burps (hysterical!) *make the "d", "b", "g" and "k" sounds *quack during "Six little ducks" *shake and hit ...

On Tuesday our sweet girl turned six months old.  SIX months! This doesn't even seem possible that she could be this old.  This last month has gone very quickly.  She has changed and grown so much.  I remember just a few months ago sitting in her nursery and crying because she had outgrown her newborn clothes.  I immediately texted a few of my close friends and my sweet friend Denise responded that she totally understood and that even though leaving one stage is sad each next stage is so much fun that it makes growing and changing okay.  She was so right!  I still look at my girl and tear up at how "big" she is getting and all of the things that she is beginning to do, but at the same time, it is so much fun to listen to her laugh, babble and try to get to the toys she wants.  Things Elliott can do: *clearly make the "M", "D" and "B" consonants *reach to get whatever toy that she wants. *mostly sit up on her own...although still sometim...