6 Months

Baby Girl is 6 months.

 Where has the time gone? Half a year. Done. 

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Weight: 17 lbs (65th percentile) 

Height: 27.5 inches (90th percentile)

Shae was 19 lbs and 27 in. at 6 months, for my own comparison. We were smack dab in the middle of a move at 6 months for Belén, so I don't have any numbers for her, but I can confidently say that she was quite a bit bigger.

She seems to be enjoying her thumb more and more. We keep trying to push the pacifier on her because that will be easier to take away someday, but she still won't have it. 

Sweet little sleeper after an insanely long eye appointment with mom (2 hours!) She sleeps like a champ in her crib, but outside of that is iffy. I was counting my blessings that she finally fell asleep in her car seat this day, and even let me transfer her to the van and drive to pick up the kids from school all while sleeping. 

Emmy is just barely starting to show interest in food. We've started sitting her in her high chair with us for dinner (if she's awake) and will usually give her something to gnaw on. Avocado was her very first bite of "real" food. She's had some roasted butternut squash, apple sauce, steamed cauliflower and carrot, green pepper, tomato, pizza crust, and she has sucked on some oranges in her mesh food holder. Not sure that much (if any) has made it's way down, but it's been fun to watch her reactions as she sticks something in her mouth and sucks on it a bit. 

She can ALMOST sit on her own. I love this milestone so much because it means she can sit in a shopping cart which makes shopping so much easier. I was able to strap her in to this one tight enough that she sort of sat, but every minute or so she would start to lean over and I'd have to sit her back up.

She's always on the search for my mouth while nursing and loves it when I nibble on her fingers.

She has a blowout at just about every other poo. I don't know what it is, but we just can't get it to stay in the diaper. The second we hear her grunting we run over to her to change her quick in hopes that the below doesn't happen, but sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter how fast we are.

Tried to go on a beautiful 2 mile trail with her one day. I shouldn't say try, because we did, but she cried just about the entire last mile of the trail back to our car. She just doesn't like being strapped down for too long. One mile was fine, two? No way.

She looooves her goofy older siblings so much. She seems a lot less content to hang out on the floor now that they are gone to school. All the excitement is gone!

                                                            

                                                        Baby's first pumpkin patch.

          

                                                                    No sign of teeth yet.

We transitioned her from her Love to Dream swaddle to a sleep sack so that she could have her arms out and free. We have found her on her belly a few times, but she still seems to prefer sleeping on her back or side.

She usually wakes up twice in the night, often between 12-1 a.m. and 4-5 a.m. REALLY wanting to get that down to one waking, but she's fighting it. I've started to let her cry a bit longer before going in to feed her to try and help her put herself back to sleep. It's worked a few times. She's usually up for the day by 7-7:30 a.m. and then takes 2 hour or more naps in the morning/afternoon and a baby nap in the early evening. She goes down between 7-8 p.m. 

She's so content and happy and brightens our lives to the max.