Happy Half-Birthday Sweetcheeks!

Six months ago at this time, I was holding a brand new baby girl. A baby girl who completed our family. Who had that sweet newborn smell, who made those adorable little newborn sighs.

And tonight? Well I just finished nursing that little girl who is not quite so little. A girl who just started crawling Saturday. Who tried a Biter Biscuit for the first time yesterday. A little girl who is now awake, alert and sitting up. A little girl who is now putting absolutely everything in her mouth, except for baby food. 

Yep, my sweet little daughter is officially six months old. Half of a year. It's amazing how much time flies! At six months you are:

• going to bed much later! Usually around 9:30pm. You tend to sleep til 4am, then you nurse and go back to bed until 8am {or whenever your brother wakes you up}

• refusing baby food. You still thrust pureed food out with your tongue. You show all the signs of being ready for solids {sitting up, grabbing at spoons, waking at night when you were sleeping through, doubled birth weight, etc} but you aren't there just yet. However, you are all for chewing on things so we may skip purees and make a gradual shift to table foods

• now wearing 9mos sleepers {you couldn't straighten your legs out in the 6mos ones}, some 6-12 mos dresses and you are still in size 3 diapers
• you are actively rolling both ways, inch-worm lunging/crawling and you love sitting up. We have to sit you up, but then you stay sitting up all on your own.
• no longer suck your thumb or take a pacifier. You only cry if you are really hungry or every.single.time I leave the room. You are a bit of a Mommy's girl {not that I'm complaining!}
• you love it when anyone plays peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake, you squeal and giggle like crazy!

Tomorrow I take you in for your six-month well child check up, so we'll soon know just how big you are! My guess would be 16lbs. Then on Friday we are traveling back 'home' for a visit....12 hours in the care should be pretty interesting!