Morgan's Numbers

Time flies when you're having fun! Last Thursday, Morgan turned 6 months old. Hard to believe! This is a photo of a cross stitch my Nana made for the little lady at birth.

Here are some other numbers:
Dozens of smiles per day
15.8 pounds
25 1/4 inches long
3 feedings of cereal each day - oatmeal and rice
2 veggies - sweet potatoes and green beans
1 fruit - pears



This was Morgan when I went in to wake her from an afternoon nap several weeks ago. Total faceplant! She woke up happy and with lines on her face from the linens....




Our little garden is trying to grow. There's only about a month left in the growing season, so we'll see what, if anything, we reap. We have lots of green tomatoes, we've eaten 4 little green beans, there's 1 ear of corn starting to appear, and the beets and carrots are doing well. The peppers....are growing tall but not producing much. So we'll mix in more horse manure and try again next year!

Changes

In the last two weeks, Morgan has blossomed. She's confidently rolling all over the living room (depicted here, the first photo is where I laid her, the second is where I found her).









She loves her oatmeal and rice cereals, though she's not sure she's fond of sweet potatoes. She is starting to drink from a sippy cup and loves to hold the handles herself. Anything within grabbing distance is fair game. And in the last few days she's started sitting up on her own! She still turfs over backwards when she gets excited, but she's doing super well on the other three sides. Each of her stages amazes me, and I'm continuously surprised at how quickly she tries and then masters things.

Several weeks ago the three of us drove to Belgrade, MT (near Bozeman) to visit a vet school classmate who is working with his dad at a mixed animal practice there. On the way up we had dinner with a vet friend working in Dillon, MT. The weekend was one of fly fishing, and Nick and Chadwick did as much as they could! The fish weren't biting tons, but they had a good time getting out for a while. We went for a hike Sunday morning - boy am I out of shape! Luckily, Chadwick carried Morgan or I would have died.
She promptly fell asleep.

The animals are doing great, though I caught Darwin playing with a rock in his mouth the other night....we'll see where this leads us. Never a dull moment here!