Halfway to One

Matilda is 6 months old...we're halfway through our first year with this sweet girl. Matilda continues to bring us joy every day. She's growing by leaps and bounds....at her check up this week she weighed in at 14 pounds 8 ounces.....that's half of what Anna weighs! Some of her milestones include:

Rolling over everywhere!

Reaching for everything

Eating solids...sweet potatoes are her favorite....bananas are the least favorite

Smiling and laughing out loud

She's ticklish! Tickling Matilda on her chest always produces a laugh

And the biggest milestone???Sleeping through the night! Or at least she has for the past 2 1/2 weeks...I need to enjoy these nights while we can...every night I worry that this will be the night that it ends...can you see Alastair rolling his eyes at me as I write that!?

 Matilda loves to sit up in her big girl chair

 She's a serious baby

 A full of wonder and thought baby

 An all around happy girl!

 And happy to be able to join us at the table for meals!

It's the first day of SPRING!

Today is the first day of spring...time for warmer temperatures, time for snow to be GONE, time for flowers to emerge and the leaves to grow back on the trees, a time for no more white roads and brown trees, a time to discard all the layers of winter and see SPRING! Oh wait....we live in Canada now.....and unfortunately spring has not sprung here yet. On the first day of spring we did not see any crocuses and snowdrops emerging but instead got more snow.

We took a trip up north over the weekend and did not see any sgns of spring there either....but we did see this...is it a glacier? No it's a frozen Georgian Bay!

We also drove south this weekend to Buffalo where there was also no signs of spring but we did see a frozen Niagara Falls

A surprise bouquet of tulips from Alastair to chase my winter blues away...a welcome sign of spring cheer!

Spring has also brought something to Toronto that can brighten any cold day away...Target has officially opened!

Surprise flowers and a trip to Target!? So far spring is looking good!

Summer, spring, winter or fall....this little girl loves them all!