6 Months Old!!!!

How did this happen?? My itty bitty baby is half a year old! I swear I was just being admitted to the hospital like yesterday. So crazy, the last month has just flown by! I need to find a way to slow down or freeze time.

In the last month, we have experience all sorts of new and exciting milestones, so let's get to that.

• You are currently 17lbs, 13oz and 27in...following your growth curve quite nicely (and I thought you weren't getting enough from me, ha!)
• You can wear anywhere between 0-3, 3-6 and 6-9 month clothing
  
• You started doing the army crawl as of last week, and with each passing day, you become stronger, faster and more confident in this new ability
• You are still 100% on breastmilk, but will be starting rice cereal this weekend (I am both excited and saddened by this one)
• You still love your baths. It is probably the one time during the day where you are all smiles from start to finish
• You are still my toothless baby. Some days I swear I can feel some bumps on your lower gum, and then others I feel nothing.
  
• You are a champion sitter. You hardly ever topple over these days.
  

We are loving this new stage that you are in right now. You are such a happy baby, love to explore now that you are mobile, and get into things you shouldn't. We need to start baby proofing the living room and your room. I caught you staring down the outlets the other day and slowly moving towards them. Not cool! We are off to shop for your high chair this week, and get you started on solids this weekend. Hopefully you do well and love the new flavours and textures.

Sleep is something that we have to work on. You have been co-sleeping with us since we took you home from the hospital. You sleep well in your crib for naps but need to get you in there full time. I'm also excited to finish off your nursery, the progress pretty much came to a halt when we had you. I will post pictures of that when it is all decorated and complete.

And now, here are some pictures of you on this 6 month birthday!

And because I am a nerd...

Bri and I - 10/10/10 at 10:10

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated yesterday and had a wonderful evening filled with friends, laughter and delicious foods. Here are a couple pictures of my little girl on Thanksgiving. The first being before our guests arrived, she was just chilling out on the couch pantless. The last 2, she hardly ever stops moving so I didn't get any great ones but at least I will have some pictures of her in her pretty dress. I'm sad we didn't get any of the 3 of us all together, will have to remember to get one at Christmas!

And today, we have a crawler!

I couldn't believe it when I saw it, even with my own eyes, I thought they were playing tricks on me. Brianna decided that she so badly wanted the soother she had tossed to the other side of her blanket that she shimmied her little body all the way towards it to grab it. I hadn't been paying enough attention to how she got there so I moved it again to see. She really did make her way over there, no rolls, just pulling herself forward. So proud of my little Bibi today, no one can wipe the smile from my face! :) Hopefully, I can get her new talent on camera at some point and put it up.

Laughter

Tonight was a great end to an absolutely horrible day. It has been rather loud in our house the last couple days. Our baby has decided to not take naps, cry excessively and scream at the top of her lungs. And did I mention there is absolutely nothing we can do to comfort her? I have tried every trick in the book, and nothing! I feel so horrible, and even more so for Clint who works nights and sleeps during the day, which is when all this fun stuff takes place.

Anyways, tonight after her bath, she was having her regular old naked time on the blanket. I don't remember how it came about, but Clint and I started talking about cheese and for some reason the word cheese was absolutely hilarious to Bibi. She laughed and laughed and laughed. It was the best sound ever, and every so often she let out this little snort too. ::dies of cuteness that is my child:: My only regret with all this, I didn't have the video camera anywhere near us to capture the moment. Bummer. Insert sad, pouty face here :(

Thinking about Christmas already

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5 Months...

So this post is a couple weeks later, but at least I am writing it ;)

As of 5 months:

• you are able to sit unassisted. She never really did the whole tripod thing
• making some super strange noises, one of them being a sort of worried squeal, more like a real whine. It's pretty pathetic, but still cute
• know how to put her soother properly in her mouth all on her own
• have learned how to undo the velcro on her diapers... must have bottoms on at all times because of this new found talent
  
• you are strictly a breastmilk baby, still no solids
• still not sleeping through the night! your sleep schedule is pretty much 10pm - 9am with one wake up in the middle of the night around 3am to snack
• your naps during the day are practically non-existent! If you do choose to give me a break, it is only for about 30 minutes at most, maybe twice a day (With the exception of when we are in the car)
• you are a true water baby! you light up whenever you are put in the pool. I cannot wait to start swimming lessons with you next month!
• you are completely obsessed with your Sophie to the point where you cry when I take her away to put you down for a nap
• and finally, you battled your very first cold this month, lasting 10 long days. My poor little congested baby :(