I Am Six Months Old!

I'm a half! Here are some highlights from my six-month photo shoot:

Please, no more photos!

Mommy says she can't believe I'm six months old already, but I feel like I've been around forever. I mean, I've already totally taken over the place. We even converted the dining room into my new playroom. Daddy says if I keep accumulating stuff I'm going to have to do something called "pay rent."

Oh! You'll never believe what happened since my last update. Christmas! I had such a good time at Christmas. Here I am hanging out in front of my tree. Can you believe we had a tree in the house? Neither could I! I spent a lot of time looking at it and admiring the pretty lights.

Here I am with Mom and Dad before church on Christmas Eve. I sat through the whole service quiet as a mouse! Well, almost. Even the quietest mice squeak just a little bit.

Now that I've had Christmas, I am an expert present opener. But really, who needs a present when you have lots of boxes and tissue paper to play with?

Here are some pictures of me with my first Christmas stocking. It was full of fun surprises!

We tried to take a family picture on Christmas, but it didn't work out because I kept trying to eat stuff. So we ended up with a whole bunch of pictures that look like this:

  I got a lot of fun toys to play with for Christmas! Here I am playing with some of my toys.

Oh yeah, I also got to wear some really fun Christmas jammies! (So did Mommy.)

Which was a good thing, because Christmas was totally exhausting!

After Christmas came something called The New Year. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but we sure did have a big party to celebrate. Well, we had a little party. Mommy and Daddy fell asleep before ten o'clock, but I woke them up for midnight!

 

Here are some general updates on what I've been up to lately. Now that I am six months old, I'm getting a lot more adventurous. I love riding things that go really fast! Like this rocking horse:

And this sled:

I also love looking at myself in the mirror. Fascinating!

And boy, do I love to eat! I've eaten cereal, carrots, applesauce, and sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are by far my favorite! I'm a very independent girl, so I prefer to feed myself.

I learned how to wave bye bye and I've even said bye bye a couple times. I say mama and dada a lot. Here I am talking about Daddy.

I love to have fun! Sometimes, Mommy and I like to play fun games like this one.

                

Pretty silly, huh? I guess that's about it, but I'm growing really fast, so stay tuned for more updates!

Happy New Year!

Love, 

Estie

I Am Five Months Old!

Would you look at that?  Five months old!  Here are some of the pictures from my five month photo shoot.  Mommy especially likes these pictures because they show off my enormous hands.  All the better to hold presents with!

Oh yeah, here's one more!  I call this one, "The Sad Reindeer."

Speaking of sad reindeer, Daddy went deer hunting over Thanksgiving!  Here is a picture of us all decked out in our hunting gear before he left for his big trip.

Daddy wasn't the only one learning to do something new this month.  I learned how to roll over from my back to my belly!  Here I am after my first roll.  I've only done this a couple times since, because I don't want to be a show off or anything.

We spent Thanksgiving in Virginia, and I had my first meal on Thanksgiving Day.  I ate rice cereal.  Yum!  Here is a picture of me, Mommy, and Daddy right before my first feast.

While we were in Virginia I got to go to my cousin's ballerina birthday party!  My Aunt Kelli made me a tutu to wear for the party. She's the coolest!  I really liked my tutu, so here are a zillion pictures of me wearing it.

Did I mention that my New Jersey Aunt and Uncle are cool, too?  They invited me to the zoo this month! Here I am taking a snooze in front of the flamingos.

Of course, it's not all rest and relaxation around here!  I have been working hard to practice my smile a lot recently.  Here are some of my latest smiles:

It's a good thing I've had so much smiling practice, because we had Christmas cards to send out!  Here are some highlights from my Christmas card photo shoot:

And here is the finished product.  Merry Christmas from me, Mommy, and Daddy!

Thanks for catching up on my five month adventures.  Check back in the New Year for more updates!

Love,

Estie (and my best friend, Nancy the Doll)