Sarah is 6 months old today. Half of her babyhood is gone. Half. GONE! Waaaah! Ok, that’s enough. Here are some pictures!

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Sarah has been having lots of fun with her toes lately!

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Today is Sarah’s 5-month birthday! We were busy busy busy today, visiting my family this morning, going to the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Little Rock this afternoon, then a girls-only dinner party with some friends tonight, but I managed to snap a few pictures of her right before bedtime. :)

Let’s see… she is smiling and talking lots, laughing a little, grabbing hold of everything, drooling a river, sleeping through the night… oh, and rolling over! From tummy to back, that is. She eats about 5 times a day, sometimes 6. (No cereal yet; we’ll start that in another month.) She’s taking 3-4 naps per day, mostly short ones, but sometimes she can be convinced to take a long afternoon nap. She’s at the age where we have every baby apparatus out right now; she is big enough for the exersaucer and bumbo, but still likes the swing and bouncy seat, etc.

Without further ado, here’s that great smile:

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There’s nothing sweeter than a newborn baby. Except perhaps a 4-month-old baby.

Really, I think babies get a lot more fun at this age. Newborns are sooooo tiny and fragile and make you go “awwww” at their tininess and fragility, but honestly, they can be fussy little critters and really don’t have that much to do with you. Sarah is such a doll now. She smiles, talks, and loves to play little games and sing songs and read books, and watches everything around her.

Do any of you parents have this problem: your baby is smiling and cooing and has all the charm turned on, then you point a camera at her, and you suddenly get that deer-in-the-headlights look? Sarah seems to smile when someone is interacting with her and making eye contact. So it takes multiple people to get a picture of her smiling–one to hold the camera, and one or more to engage her and make her smile!

So some of these were shot solo, but they are still cute I think, and some were with help. We have Nana and Granddad here from Colorado to help celebrate her “birthday” this month!

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Anna at almost 10 months:

Sarah at almost 4 months:

Same outfit!

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Sarah is interacting more and more each day with us and with the world around her. I’ve been reading her the occasional book ever since she was born, but of couse she didn’t really look at them… until lately. Now she has her attention on the book as we read to her. It’s pretty cool, and I try to make sure she gets read to every day. Anna loves to help too!

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Sarah turned 3 months old today!

Here is the sleeping beauty waking up:

Reading a book with Mommy:

Just a swingin’:

And rockin’:

Tummy time:

Isn’t she a beauty?

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Sarah is 2 months old today! It was very cold today… a great day for a warm fleece snowman dress. Isn’t she cute? She’s been giving us lots of great smiles lately, but not usually when I have the camera out. Maybe I’ll capture some of them soon.

She is starting to get a lot more fun. She still mostly eats and sleeps and just lies there, but she is getting more responsive to us. She likes to lie on her back and kick her legs, and she’ll look us in the eyes and smile when we talk to her and play with her. She also reaches for things and grasps them whenever her hand happens to land in the right spot.

So how’s she sleeping? That’s a question people love to ask about newborns. She seems to be the opposite of Anna. Anna was a good daytime napper, but she remained a horrible nighttime sleeper until about 6 months of age. (Fortunately, she’s been great since then.) Sarah, on the other hand, does not nap well during the day, but at least she sleeps well at night! She’ll usually go to bed and sleep until her middle-of-the-night feeding (which is around 4:00 these days), then go back to sleep until morning, usually not requiring any intervention from us in between. So if I had to take my pick, I’d much prefer her to sleep well at night!

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I want to blog more often, really I do! It’s so hard to make it a priority right now. But here’s a picture; maybe it will get things rolling. Here are my girls with their blankets that my OB clinic gives to all the babies they deliver:

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