Half a Year with Sabrina Day

We can't believe that it's been 6 months since our wonderful daughter was born. She has amazed us in so many ways in the past 6 months and we can't imagine our lives without her in it. Brent, Sabrina and I all went out on Monday night to our local restaurant, Murphy's, and celebrated a number of things. We celebrated Brent's new job at Jive Software on Pearl St. Mall in Boulder, my new position at my current company as Director of Operations for the Sustainable Building Services Group at AEC, and our daughter's 6 month birthday. We are feeling happy and lucky these days.

Here are a few photos to show what 6 months can do. This first photo was taken at the hospital when she was first born:



And this photo was taken this past weekend at the condo in Breckenridge.

We spent a great weekend there with Nana and Poppy...and lots of dogs! Nana and Poppy are thinking of adopting Penelope (Penelly, or Nelly as she's being called) who is a buddy of Gracie's from her doggie camp. Nelly's mom just adopted a little girl and is having trouble keeping Nelly entertained as much as she would like. Gracie and Nelly get along great and I think you'll see in the photos from our weekend that Nelly would probably have a pretty sweet life with Nana, Poppy and Gracie. And Pongo thought he had hit the bully sticks a little hard when he started seeing double white fluffy dogs, but he decided that whatever the cause, two Gracies was pretty darn cool. That is, until he lost them in the snow field camouflage. Photos from the weekend are below:



Developmentally, Sabrina is seconds away from crawling. She is constantly moving around the room in all directions. We often put a blanket down and then we are still surprised when she's 2 feet off the blanket when we turn around, even though she's been moving pretty well for a few weeks now. In the past week we've noticed a lot of "revving the engine" where she'll get up on all fours and rock back and forth focusing on an object in front of her that she wants to grab SO badly. Then she usually gets mad and flops down on her belly. However, several of us have witnessed a few legitimate crawls here and there, but they are still few and far between. Uncle Tim is in Colorado for work this week so he got to visit Sabrina tonight and he witnessed one of her true crawling moments out on the back deck. Apparently, the spoon in front of her was worth a real crawl. I think it's really just a matter of figuring out the object that she wants badly enough that she'll decide to crawl one day. Unfortunately (or amusingly) right now beer bottles seem to be one of her biggest motivators...she loves the feel of the cool glass on her gums! I'm afraid she learned this trick from her big god-sister, Cecilia. Or could this be yet another bit of paternity proof?

Finally, here are a few photos from dinner tonight with Tim and BerndUwe who is driving to San Francisco and stopped in Boulder for a quick visit.



Happy Half Birthday Sabrina! We love you like crazy.