happy half birthday!

to our halfsies girl....you are 6 months old today. this morning at 9am i looked at your papa and remembered that at this time of day exactly 6 months ago, i was at my doctor's appt. completely oblivious that you were arriving that very day. and today at 3:33pm i thought about that same time 6 months earlier and i thought about the very minute you were born.
1/2 a year ago today and oh how our lives have changed. how you have changed. how you have changed our lives. you are such a big girl now. your two bottom teeth are peeking through and i can feel a tiny bit of one. you have mastered rolling over every which way, and you are the sitting up champion. maybe its your chunky little thighs that you use for support, but as soon as you started sitting up you had it mastered! you love to sit up and see the world, craning your neck to look all around. you have started to bang on things and enjoy rolling around on our new rug we got so you could do just that.
you are talking more and more (i say that every month). lots of dadada and raspberry blowing. you still like a lot of the same noises, like when your papa whistles or pretends to whisper something in your ear. you like when mommy sings baa baa black sheep and pat a cake. you cackle when mommy smells your toes and says "phew stinky!" you think that is just the most hilarious thing.
you are still rocking the nighttime sleep (except for tonight at our girls night party at janets where you stayed up late with the big girls) and have also started napping for long stretches. sometimes you still cry when we put you down for naps but at night you just talk to yourself and then fall asleep. you are ALL OVER the crib and often get your arms and legs stuck in the bars. mommy and papa watch you and we noticed that you like to play on the bars with your hands and feet, and sometimes you just go a little too far and next thing we know you are stuck. sometimes when you wake up in the morning you quietly play with the crib bars for a bit.
toys that you love right now include your taggie and your ring stacker. mommy will put the ring on part of the way and then you slap it the rest of the way with your hand. when it plays music you sit back and smile and listen to the music. we have also started playing with blocks, and you will sit and watch mommy make a tower and then you knock it down. you love love LOVE that papa of yours and you will look around the room for him. when he comes downstairs in the morning to leave for work you have to stop what you are doing and watch his every move. saturday morning bagel shop trips continue.
you seem to like being outside, and enjoy your stroller rides. you have also taken to looking outside through our big front window. i think you are watching our flag fly around.
since you sit up so well you now sit up for your baths, which make them more fun for you and much more wet for mommy. you splash and splash. diaper changes are also a bit more challenging, as you like to roll around on the changing table and try to reach for anything and everything.
greta, thank you for the past 6 months. you have opened my heart to so many amazing things. each time i try to write here how much i love you i can't find words. you are my world. your shiny eyes and your rosy cheeks and your tiny hands and all that crazy dark hair. you are such a miracle.