My big girl

1/2 year old already ... 6 months since my life has been forever changed. My how time flies.

Elizabeth is eating solids like a champ! She loves her rice cereal (homemade!), eats bananas like they are going out of style, makes funny faces when she eats her green beans, started eating puffs, and is slowly moving towards 'real' food (toast, pancakes, meat). She loves to drink out of mommy's cup, and plays with her own sippy cups (and subsequently gets water EVERYWHERE), and likes to squish her hands in her food and then loves to share it with the dog (who has found out how much FUN it is having a baby in the house!).

She loves her bathtime and I cannot WAIT to get her into swim lessons, only a few more weeks and we'll be signing her up! (ugh, that means i have to get into a suit too, huh? CRAP!) She sits all by herself, but still topples over every once in a while, so we typically keep a pillow behind her. She is moving herself all over the floor, moving to the sides and backwards. We are working on the forwards, and yesterday I set something she REALLY wanted (a paper bag) just out of her reach, and she started to use her legs to try and propel herself forward. Guess that means that crawling isn't too far out.

Ellie did splendidly at the doctor's office on Tuesday, weight in at 15lbs 12oz (47% - YAY) and 25-1/2" long (42%) which is a far cry from the 2nd and 4th percentile that she was at her 1 week appointment!

It's hard to think that in 6 short months my little girl will be babbling more than she is now, pulling herself up, and maybe even walking. I can't help but start to think of what I am going to make for her cake! (and I already got her a birthday girl shirt that was on clearance at Fred Meyer ... couldn't pass it up!) Albertsons has a free cake for a first birthday, so I fully intend on getting her that cake just for her ... that will be her cake to fully destroy and (hopefully) wear from head to toe! But Betty Crocker has some of the cutest ideas, and I can't help but start peeking at ideas.

I guess it's 6 months from now, but seeing how quickly the past 6 months have passed, I can only imagine how much quicker the next 6 months are going to go!

Happy Half Birthday Elizabeth Rose Hamilton (a few days late)!