Looking awfully smiley with her Daddy’s baby hat, some fun toys, and best of all- clean laundry.

Camera pictures…

She didn’t get any ice cream, but was slightly mollified by the new book.

This was her first time discovering the glory of beards, which is that they can’t be swept over a shoulder and away.

Helen Jeanette had her first weekend in Charlottesville! Fun times were had by all.

We arrive late Friday night and Helen Jeanette slept a good portion of the trip and then transitioned sweetly to sleeping on the flour since we had forgotten her play pen. Saturday we hung out for a little while I’m the morning waiting for it to warm up and then headed to the Charlottesville mall for a couple hours enjoying the weather and shopping. Helen Jeanette was quite spoiled and together Chris and I bought her three new books.

Keith and Jenny came over for dinner and we had a great meal on the porch watching the geese play in the lake.

Sunday morning Keith came over for brunch and we spent some time going through old boxes of Chris’s stuff. Helen Jeanette got to try on a sweater and hat that Keith wrote as a baby. She also really took to some of Chris’s old toys.

We’re slowly getting our old bedroom set up as an office so we need a place for Helen Jeanette to play. She was awfully excited for her new space!

Someone was very cute today!

Can you believe it?

She’s in the 38% for height, 65% for weight, and 92% for head circumference. She weighs 16 lbs 13 oz.

She’s eating broccoli and rice cereal and she spent her first night away from her mom this week.

She’s not crawling yet but she wants to so much! She can go from sitting to on her belly pretty comfortably and its disconcerting to sit her up and turn around to find her in a totally different position without any noise!

She’s still super smiley and wants to put everything she finds in her mouth. She loves to play peek a boo and will laugh and laugh every time. She gets super groggy if she doesn’t have a good nap but when you try to entertain her in this state she’ll sometimes go into historical hyper laughing. It’s incredibly sweet.

No special chair photos yet but here are a few from today.

We ended up moving her 6 month milestone up 4 days because I’ll be spending my first night away from her Thursday and we wanted something to supplement my unimpressive freezer stash. I’m also pumping around the clock until then.

Presenting: steamed broccoli! 3/4/14

I’m ready mom, bring it on!

She wasn’t quite sure what to think but decided she’d better keep going! I have a video which is great but I need to set the blog to accept videos first.

It was nice enough to take Helen Jeanette to the neighborhood park!

She’s gotten so good at this! I can even leave her for a minute or two.