My 6 month old who thinks she's 12 months old.

Little Matilda Rae was 6 months old as of 12/28 and we went to her 6 month doctor's visit on 1/5. She is officially off the charts (above 95 percentile) for her height at 28" and at the 85 percentile for weight at 18 lbs. She is way ahead of the game being able to pull up and walk holding on to the rail of the crib or edge of the coffee table. She sits up, crawls insanely fast and is eating 2-3 meals a day of solid foods that Mom and Franma make. She loves everything she's tried including sweet potato, avocado, carrots, banana, blueberries, spinach, asparagus, squash, prunes, apple, pear and peaches. She hasn't really slowed down the breast milk drinking much, just added the food. She still has about 5 oz of breast milk every 4 hours or so either from me or a bottle and she is great at switching between the two...no issues there. She also has two teeth that make her look even more adorable- if that is even possible!

Over the weekend we were given a high chair from her Aunt Kelly and she loved eating in it and playing in it. We sat her with some toys and she played happily for about an hour. She loves throwing things on the floor now and the highchair is a perfect place to do that from.

Here are a few pics from this past weekend. It was so beautiful out that we spent lots of time outside:

We took a bike ride and went to the park on the way home to swing:

 Sunday morning Dad made breakfast and he and Mattie danced in the kitchen:

 Lots of good playoff football was on this weekend. Mattie LOVES watching football and assumed her position on the couch for a good 30 minutes straight:

 We went for a walk on the beach to collect shells. Mattie loves the ocean and is so content in her stroller on the beach:

 Mattie won't let me take a pic of her teeth without grabbing my phone! So here is the best one I could get...with her finger on the phone of course. :)

Matilda is so eager and ready to learn and do more. It's so much fun to watch it all happen, but it's happening SO fast! I really think she'll walk in the next few months at this rate...insane.

Eddie and I say every day how lucky we are...we really hit the jackpot with this little lady. :)

More soon...xoxo

world's worst blogger...world's best baby

Well, I may officially win the title of world's worst mommy blogger. Five months with NO posts? You'd think I moved to Florida, started a new job and have a new baby or something....er, um, yep, that's exactly my excuse!

But, new year, new blog.

As I said, the Berrang family has started a new chapter in our little adventure called life. Namely, we have moved to Atlantic Beach, FL and I have started a new job at an ad agency in San Marco called Burdette Ketchum. We could not be more thrilled with our move...especially when Matt and Al tell us about the frigid New York winter every morning and it's usually about 70 outside our front door...

Eddie is still working for the same company and is traveling back and forth to NYC a few times a month for meetings and such. Otherwise, he is working out of an office that is 7 min door-to-door by skateboard- pretty rad.

We are so lucky that my Mom (Franma) is able to keep Mattie during the day for us. She is teaching her everything from reading to music to math and Matilda absolutely loves it! She is so happy and loved and we could not be more thrilled with the arrangement.

So much has happened in the past five months that I couldn't even attempt to recap it all here, but I will give you some photographic proof of our amazing little girl's growth. She is now eating solid foods, has two bottom front teeth (as of 4 days ago), is crawling like a champ and is pulling up all on her own on anything she can. I swear she is going to walk in a month at this rate! She is truly the light of our lives and we are SO lucky that she is such a good little baby. She is not sleeping though the night yet though, so I am still on the every 4 hour waking to feed schedule...a small price to pay for her amazingness! Here are a few pics from the past few months...

Loving her new beach home:

 Gator baby, with Mom at Bronson's parents BBQ:

 First bite of food, sweet potatoes on Thanksgiving:

 Christmas candy bandit at D's parents party:

 Happy girl on the beach on a walk with Mom:

 Christmas Eve nap with Dad:

 Christmas Eve book reading with Dad:

 Christmas morning on her older cousin's Powerwheel:

 Christmas morning, loving the wrapping paper and bows:

 Christmas morning bath in Dede's sink:

 Her six month birthday, in a highchair like a big girl:

 My little hipster baby, clothes courtesy of her cool aunt Meg in NYC:

 Happy New Year! She almost made it until midnight...Franma took her home at 11:30 :)

 First family bike ride this past weekend:

Needless to say she is growing up so fast. It feels like yesterday that we brought her home and now we can't imagine life without her. 

I'm going to try my best to keep up with the blog a little better. Now that Eddie got me an iPhone I have been taking pics like crazy (as you can tell most of the ones I posted are new), so it should be easier to document this little angel's busy life. 

Now off to pump- that is not the most fun thing about being a breastfeeding Mom, pumping twice a day at work...such is life! 

xoxoxo