God created our daughter Siena about sixTEEN months ago, but today marks six fantastic months since the day she was born. We’re celebrating in three ways:

• On Friday, we’re hosting a May Day block party so we can meet more of our neighbors. We have a little park on our street, and with the spring weather there are more and more families outside playing. I’ve wanted to do something to meet our neighbors for a while now (and just wasn’t up to waddling my third-trimester-pregnant-self over to each house with cookies when we first moved in) and figured the week Siena turns six months old is as good as any. It will be a B.Y.O.Picnic event, but we’ll supply the cupcakes.

• Which brings me to the second way we’re be celebrating – by offering Siena her first taste of rice cereal! (Sorry Siena; you’ll have to wait another six months for a birthday cupcake.)

• And finally, you are looking at the third way we’re marking the day – with a new blog! So far, the first six(teen) months of Siena’s life have been documented at blog.hawkinwinter.com. As it says on there, “We are husband (Hawk in Winter) and wife (Little Red Hen). We are photographers, new parents, conservative Catholics and love living in the Pacific Northwest. This blog is an outlet for our life updates, random thoughts, and rants when our feathers are ruffled.” The mission of that blog remains unchanged, but HawkInWinter will be the primary blogger there and I will be the primary blogger over here. We will do some cross-posting when our subject matter overlaps. This new arrangement allows HiW to have a seamless transition between our main website and blog, while allowing me to choose dynamic, “cutesy” backgrounds and all the Momma-blogging widgets my little heart desires.