PUFFS!

Halle Kate is moving on into the world of solid food. I gave her Puffs last week (smaller than a Cheerio size food that dissolves in her mouth so that she really doesn't have to chew) and she loves them! What a big girl. I don't have a picture of it yet but she learned to clap this week and is so proud. She claps for everything. Jared's favorite is that she is a TOTAL Daddy's girl and she claps like crazy when he comes in the door. Isn't that cute?!?!




I didn't do an update but HK just hit 8 months. Man, time is flying. She still loves banana baby oatmeal cereal and really won't eat other baby food. If I feed her a bowl around 7:30pm there is chance she'll make it until 6am or later before she wakes up to eat a bottle. How exciting is that?!?! Then she eats about 7oz and goes back to bed until 8am. I LOVE HER! That's the only time she drinks much formula though. During the day I'm lucky to get 2oz in her at a time. Such a peanut. Her bottom two teeth are totally in, along with one on the top. The other top one is there and keeping us up at night but hasn't broken through yet.

She's still in 6 month clothes (some of her 3 month clothes still fit fine) and I'm really torn about what to buy as we head into spring. Last summer M was in 18-24 month clothes already so there is nothing HK can wear. Buy 9 months and hope she doesn't have a growth spurt halfway through summer? 12 month clothes are way too big. I just don't know and there is cute spring stuff on all the rack already!

HK is just starting to push up on her knees so we're headed towards crawling but not quite there yet, thank goodness. I know once they are both mobile I am in big trouble. Halle Kate's favorite thing is Matney. She loves her sister. Her second favorite thing is her Daddy. She likes me fine but when Jared is around she is all over him. She also loves to sit on the floor with a box of blocks we have and dump them all out. It takes her a while since she has to "taste" each block so it is an activity I like because she entertains herself for a good amount of time.

As long as she has her naps (about 1 hour in the morning and a longer one in the afternoon) she is the sweetest, happiest little girl ever. Of course, we really can only compare her to Matney and we all know Miss M has rolled, crawled and marched to the beat of her own drum from day 2! Somehow it came up this weekend and Jared and I agree that having Matney and Halle Kate, at exactly the ages they are, was the smartest thing we've done. Maybe not the easiest but our family is perfect just the way it is!