just a few new pictures.

our big girl sitting up playing!


happy in her swing...



smiling for daddy!

swinging at the park in arkansas... she loves the swings!

mountain getaway

jered, hadleigh, and i went on a little weekend getaway this past weekend to spruce pine, nc. we stayed in a cabin at a place called springmaid mountain and had a very relaxing, very fun weekend of fishing, hiking, napping, and smores :) even though we got super lost on the way there friday night (for 2 hours on dirt roads and almost out of gas -- not so good in nc right now!), the weekend ended up being great. here are a few pictures:

our first baby food!

this past thursday, we made our first attempt at baby food. we did rice cereal for about a week, and hadleigh understood the spoon concept, but i think she hated rice cereal. so we moved on and decided to try carrots... she loved them! mommy and daddy didn't love the colored spitup that was to follow... but we still had fun!!

playdate

hadleigh had her first "playdate" last friday. i babysat for a few hours for my friend mindy, so her daughter, ava, and hadleigh got to play. there's not a lot a 4-month old and 5-month old can do together, but i thought i'd share a picture of the occassion anyway.

future razorback

sweetest thing ever.

this morning at naptime...


they love each other...

i'm 5 months old!

hadleigh is 5 months old today!! she's the greatest baby and she's getting to be so much fun! she's developing quite the little personality... she's super happy all the time, but if she gets

mad -- watch out! she gets that face all twisted up and becomes a drama queen like her mama :) she's babbling all the time and has learned that she can produce high-pitched screams. she chews and slobbers on everything, but we don't see any teeth yet. she has officially creeped or rolled into everything in the living room -- she can make it pretty far by rolling or pushing there on her feet and face. she's sitting up for a few seconds by herself, grabbing at everything, and sticking her feet in her mouth. we're getting pretty good at eating rice cereal; she opens her mouth for the spoon and grabs for the bowl now that she knows what's in it! we're also discovered how fun sonny can be -- she just stares at him now or grabs at his ears and feet. she was petting him the other day and laughed and laughed; she was having so much fun!! lastly... we've finally moved on to 3-6 months clothes and size 2 diapers! YEAH. our last weigh-in confirmed an almost 13lb baby. growing like a weed...