Eliana you are 6 months old!!!
-You are still wearing some 3-6 month clothing, but mostly 6
months. I have put you in a
few onesies that were 6-9 months.
-You are wearing a size 3 diaper now.
- I’m not sure how much you weigh, and your doctor’s appointment isn’t until
next week. I
would guess between 16 and 17 pounds.
- I also don’t know how long you are.
-You are still refusing to take a bottle or sippy cup. You know…the usual.
- You have eaten rice cereal, avocado, banana, and sweet
potatoes. You were doing pretty
well with the rice cereal, and then we didn’t
give you any for a bit (oops). Now you’re not
really thrilled with anything we
have tried to give you. Today I tried to give you banana,
and you just kept
spitting it at me. Have I mentioned that you’re stubborn?
- You are really, really wanting to crawl! You can move
backwards, and you can turn in a
circle. You can even get up on your knees, but
you haven’t quite figured out how to move
forward.
- You love to give your Daddy and me kisses. It may sound crazy,
but you know the word,
“kisses.” Most of the time if we ask for them, you will
give them to us. Sometimes you are
quite aggressive, and they are always
slobbery! I cherish them though because I know the
time is coming when you
won’t give me kisses anymore.
- You have started sucking your lips in, and it is so cute!
-You love your Uncle Tim! He always gets a smile from you, and
it is one of the cutest
things ever! It’s really fun to see your 14 and 11
year-old uncles play with you!
-You are still sleeping through the night! Unfortunately, you
are still rolling over on your
belly to sleep, too. You still don’t want to
take naps. Although the last few days you have
fallen asleep on the way home
from lunch, and I have carried you in your car seat into your
room, and you
have stayed asleep for a little while.
- Sometimes you are fine in the car, and sometimes you scream
like it is the worst thing
you have ever experienced! Thankfully during those
times you almost always wear yourself
out and fall asleep.
- You try your best to get people to notice you when we are in public. At
restaurants you
will pick a person and stare and smile at him/her until you get
a smile in return. Recently
you have started being very noisy at restaurants.
You aren’t even mad. You just like to
squeal.
- Still no teeth!
-We are still working on your head tilt. Hopefully Dr. Adams will say that it
has improved
when we see him next week.
- You still like your burp cloths, but now you are more
interested in your toys. Almost
everything goes into your mouth now…which is
difficult on Mommy’s germophobia.
- You can sit up on your own now. You usually tip after a little
while or when you try to
reach for something, but when you first started
sitting up, you would get a big smile on
your face like you were so proud of
yourself.
- Now that you can sit up, you will stay in your pack-and-play
or crib and play with your
toys for a few minutes without getting mad that you
aren’t being held. Sometimes I lay a
big sheet on the floor and let you play on
that.
- You still suck on your fingers and thumb.
-You still love to be held, but you are getting very squirmy.
-Lately you haven’t liked getting your diaper changed as much… especially
when it is the
first one after you wake up. Sometimes you are still goofy
during them though.
-You aren’t getting the hiccups as much anymore, thankfully!
- Your right tear duct is still clogged. I really hope it gets
better soon!
- You like bath time. You really like sucking the water off of a
washcloth. Once you can sit
up a little better, it will be time for bath toys!
- You are a ham! You love it when you get undivided attention,
and you know how to smile
for a camera!
- Just in the last few days you have really started babbling.
You have been talking to
yourself in the car constantly! You have also started
making a kkkkkkk sound, and spitting
(for lack of a better word).
- You really like riding in your stroller. We’ve started using
our umbrella stroller more,
and you just look around and kick your feet.
- You grab your feet, but you have never tried to put them in
your mouth.
Now that I have caught up on your monthly updates, I am hoping
to be able to write
shorter posts about fun things that we do, and add more
pictures of you more frequently.
We’ll see. Maybe I’ll even add recipes again,
but I know the grandparents that are reading
don’t care as much about that.