Happy half birthday

Happy 6 month birthday to our lovely little Eve. To commemorate the occasion we had a little photo shoot this morning.

And here are just a few of the things I adore about her:

- when she is tired she puts her thumb in her mouth and tries to roll onto her side - even when she isn't in her cot.

- she flaps her arms when she is excited and happy. But when she is unhappy she will flap only one of them. Such a small variation. Thankfully her giant happy smile is a useful clue.

- her all time favourite song is the "boom boom boom wayo" song. Her face always lights up when she hears it (and she flaps two of her arms!).

- she thinks her feet are absolutely delicious but she fails more often than she succeeds at putting them into her mouth.

- she makes more noise than any baby I've ever heard. When she is tired, when she is hungry, when she is happy...

- she loves me so very much but she possibly loves Ollie even more.

- whenever Ollie does something that might hurt her and I'm telling him off saying that she doesn't like what he is doing she will have the biggest smile on her face and make me look like a total liar.

- she grabs at my face and nose using her scritchy scratchy nails, but in a most loving kind of way.

- she hits me when she is nursing, but just to make sure that I'm still there.

I love that she is a little girl just for me and when the boys go off to the park or the beach on the weekend there is peace and quiet and a house just filled with girls.

I completely and utterly adore her. I can't believe she has been here for a whole six months. She completes our family, giving me everything I had ever dreamed of hoping for. I love her an insane amount.

And as is the tradition around here, we enjoyed a lovely bottle of bubbles last night to congratulate ourselves for keeping her safe and ourselves (relatively) sane for six whole months.

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