6 months already?!?

We never truly appreciated the saying "time flies (especially when you're having fun)" until we became parents.  Our sweet Bayley turned 6 months old last week (I apologize because this whole blog is basically about her - we want our family in PA, NC, and AR to feel like they're able to share in these things with us) and I don't know where the last 6 months have gone!  It really seems like only a few days ago we were bringing her home from the hospital, and now, she's sitting up, rolling over all over the place, laughing, interacting, eating real food, she's just growing up so fast, and while it is so rewarding to see her growing and changing and a happy and healthy baby, I can't help but wish that time would just slow down a bit!  I am so thankful that I have had these last few weeks home with her before starting my new job, because things definitely seemed to go by even more quickly while I was working full time.  Every day I am more amazed and in awe of God's creation and this amazing, beautiful gift He has entrusted us with, we have never been so happy as we have these past months!  Bayley grows more and more everyday and we often find ourselves just watching her, completely in love and infatuated with her precious little self!  She is such a content baby and will be happy to just sit on a blanket on the floor and play for the longest time, and she has recently started rolling over ALL over the place - seriously, we will sit her down on her blanket with her toys and within minutes she is on the complete other side of the room!  Guess we will have to start baby-proofing the house soon...  She is a very happy baby and LOVES to laugh, sometimes all it takes is for one of us to just look at her and she cracks up hysterically!  She has started eating baby food now that she is 6 months old, and her favorite is carrots, she will eat them at every meal if we let her - green beans on the other hand, not so much, haha.  One of the most heartwarming things, in my opinion, that she has started doing is reaching for us when she wants us and to see her whole face just light up when she sees us, she truly is our little miracle, and I don't know how we got so lucky...

This is kind of a crazy face, but she gets so excited when she laughs

Trying rice cereal for the first time!

just sitting on her blanket, playing with her toys and laughing at mommy - Mom, here is your big toothless grin picture!

laughing some more

first time trying carrots - she wasn't too sure at first, she thought it was more fun to spit them at us than actually eat them :)

she has been really good about sitting and playing with toys in her high chair while we're cooking or cleaning in the kitchen

first bite of sweet potatoes - she seems to always be unsure the first bite of a new food

green beans

this was the first really nice weather day of the spring, so Daddy bought her a pretty swing and hung it from the deck out back

and we went to the playground to swing on the big swings

and go down the slide

this was her first time riding in the stroller sitting up (not in her carseat) - I think she liked looking around at everything

We have hundreds more pictures that we could post, but its getting kind of late for that now, I promise I'll try to be better about posting pictures of her more often, she's growing so fast!  Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed it!