6 Months

• Growth &Development / Milestones
• Weight: 14lb 13oz (27%)
• Height: 25in (25%)
• Head Circumference: 16 1/2in (34%)
• Size 3 diapers
• Clothes 3-6 mo
• Plays on tummy, pushes off hands and feet. Does not enjoy being on belly for long.
• Can roll from belly to back and back to belly. From back to belly is harder and a lot of times she just lays there on her side to play.
• Interested in everything it seems...always reaching out for what I am holding or what is around her. 
• Loves to squeal and gurgle still. Early stages of babbling. Says "ah" like she is repeating the way we say "yeah" to her
• Can sit up on own for little while but becomes unsteady as she plays 
• While sitting up can prop herself up with her arm (like "tripod" position)
• Began eating oatmeal once a day 
• Can stand and hold herself up on something 
• Recognizes Mommy and Daddy. She has begun to show signs of favoring us (can mostly see it with me).
• Has held arms up a few times in bumpo chair like she is trying to tell me to pick her up. Melts my heart. <3 font="font">
• Schedule
• Sleeps from 8:00-8:30pm to around 7-7:30am (in rock n play). We are getting ready for crib transition
• Starting to get bored of play mat. Only entertained on it for about 10 minutes and usually that is in the morning. She always wants me to play with her!
• Eating every 3 hours - 730am, 1030am, 130pm, 430pm, 730pm. At 1030 feeding she is getting oatmeal. :)
• Bath time 7-730pm. Bottle after, then down for the night. 
• Few Firsts/Favorites/More about this stage
• First real play time in the pool. Enjoys the pool now!
• We read same book before every nap. She loves it and gets so excited.
• Everything she can get her hands on goes in mouth
• First time in high chair and first time to eat oatmeal
• First time to meet her cousins, Ashton, Abigail, and Aiden
• Wants to be everywhere I am during the day. 
• Wakes up in morning and just lays there looking around until me or Forrest goes in. She gets a big smile on her face when she sees us and kicks her legs and flails her arms!
• Brought out the baby bullet and read about making her veggies and fruits. We will start that this month. :P

5 Months

• Growth & Development
  • Just bought our first box of size 3 diapers! 
  • 0-3 mo clothes really tight; 3-6 mo starting to fit
  • Can lift chest when on belly but only rests on elbows for a few seconds. Still dislikes tummy time.
  • Reaches and grabs for things then brings it to her mouth.
  • Laughing :D We were twirling and looking in the mirror the other day and she was giggling so hard. I teared up because I had never heard her laugh so much! 
  • She likes to make high pitch little screams too when she is excited.
  • Cooing a lot more now; we have conversations. She also has discovered she can gurgle.
• Schedule
  • Sleeps from 8:30pm to around 7-7:30am (in rock n play). I am dreading the transition to crib.
  • Loves her play mat first thing in the morning after breakfast; she is so active on it now.
  • Longest nap is about 2 hours, usually in morning (8-8:30 am to 10-10:30 am).
  • Still eating every 3 hours - her schedule is completely opposite now! Since she has been waking around 730am she is eating then, again at 1030, and so on. These times used to be her going down for nap times. 
  • Bath time at 7pm
• Few Firsts/Favorites/More about this stage
• First weekend away from Mommy and Daddy (stayed at Lala and Pop Pops during our anniversary trip)
• Lots of drooling! 
• Putting hands and objects (toys and blankets) in mouth
• Puts hands on bottle when eating
• Loves her little lovie/snuggling with it during naps and at night
• She loves to go outside, especially in the evening. Daddy usually takes her for a golf cart ride which makes her happy.
• Loves/smiles when looking in mirror while being held; loves being held period!
• Kicks and plays a lot more in bath.. splashing water outside her little tub 
• Twirling with me, standing on feet while holding her up, swinging in air, anything that involves playing. She is so easy to entertain!
• Milestones
• Hmm well I would say the reaching for things and putting them to mouth is the biggest thing since that involves quite a bit of coordination. Baby center says that has a lot to do with her development of depth perception. Way to go H! 
• I was hoping to be able to put lifting chest here but she has not quite mastered that. 

5 Year Anniversary

(at the Oasis)

We spent the weekend in Austin to celebrate. Forrest's parents watched Hadie while we missed her. But it was good for us to have a weekend to ourselves and we were so grateful that his parents offered to watch her. We stayed at a resort in Lakeway on Lake Travis. We enjoyed the lake and resort as well as the down town Austin city atmosphere. It was a great getaway but we were happy to come home to our sweet girl! 

First Father's Day

We Love Daddy :)

4 Months!

• Growth & Development
  • Head Circumference: 16 in
  • Length: 23 in
  • Weight: 12 lbs 2 oz
  • 16th percentile  
  • Size 2 diapers now; Outfits 0-3mo
  • Cannot lift chest off ground yet (working on that; right now she screams with her face down on the ground)
  • Reaches and grabs, attempts to grabs, or unintentionally grabs for things (toys on play mat, blanket)
  • Following us with her eyes, engaging more, smiling, cooing :)
• Schedule
  • Sleeps from 9pm to around 6am (in rock n play)
  • Still eating every 3 hours 
  • Bath time at 6pm
• Few Firsts/Favorites/More about this stage
• First laugh! Forrest and I both were there to hear it the evening of Father's Day.
• Speaking of, first Father's Day
• More obvious, frequent and louder cooing
• Smiles all the time!
• Sucking on fingers/fist
• Seems to enjoy car rides
• Mornings... long naps and porch time with Lala
• Will always love bath time
• Goes down at night easily 
• Milestones
• Sleeping through night!

All is well with our little family. Hadison is bringing us so much joy as I know other parents can relate. She is growing up and really developing her own little personality. I love that she can engage with us so much more now. 

I am so grateful that she is just a happy baby. She just doesn't seem to get bothered too easily. Even the other night as our electricity was out for a dreadful four hours (yes I am that boring that I am going to talk about our electricity going out!) I was trying to put her down with no AC and in the nude, no fan, no noise maker, no warm bottle to give her after nursing, no blanket to wrap her in (since it was so hot), and I discovered how much more this momma was easily bothered than she. She went to bed around 945 after I put her in her room and laid next to her around 915, taking only a little longer to go down. I was thinking great, now how am I going to sleep in this sauna! Then she slept just fine that way. I woke up when it came back on, just to cover her up and all. I was so impressed the next morning that she had so easily adjusted to different circumstances. 

Anyways she is my little monkey on my back during the days, allowing me to drag her all over the house. Family time in the evenings is nice and then once she is asleep, Forrest and I get to talk/hang out. We have settled into a nice little routine I guess you could say.

27th Birthday!

Celebrated with lots of cake! Forrest makes me a birthday cake every year. It is my favorite cake. He was inspired by his dad who has made the same cake for his mom's birthday every year for the last 35 years. Then the night before my birthday we went out to a nice dinner with friends.