Thursday, December 3, 2009

6 Months Old

These last 6 months have just flown by with Hallie. She is at such a cute age right now. I love it. She is just full of personality, but not mobile yet. LOVE IT! She is such a joy to have in our house and brings so much happiness to all of us. Here are some of the things about Hallie at 6 months:
*20.3 lbs 95%
*27 inches 90%
*44 cm 90%
She is such a big, chunky baby! I love every one of her rolls! 6 more pounds and she will catch Grant. With her average of 2 pound per month, she should have him by February or March. Holy cow!!!
*She has started sitting up and has really good balance
*She continues to be a happy baby. She only cries if she's hungry or tired. She has had ear infections twice in the last month and you wouldn't even know she's sick. She hardly makes a peep. It is such a blessing that she is such a good little baby.
*She tries to give you kisses...SO CUTE!
*She tries to mimic sound and actions.
*She is starting to get more vocal. She is still really quiet, but will occasionally have a lot to say. Mikkele and Hallie have had baby talk conversations back and forth. It's really funny.
*Still not sleeping very good. We have good nights and bad nights. She has been sick quite a bit lately, so I think this has something to do with it. I feel too bad making her cry it out again while she's sick. We'll be trying it again here soon though.
*We finally got her crib up. She has been sleeping in her pack-n-play because I couldn't find the bolts to the crib. Come to find out the bolts were in the crib the whole time. I was looking for a bag of bolts. Woops. Oh well.
*We have started to feed her solids finally. I have been dragging my feet on this one. It feels like I have twins because I'm spoon feeding 2 kids right now. We're still a little inconsistent with the feedings, but I try to feed her cereal in the mornings and a mixture of cereal and a vegetable in the evenings. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it feels like a huge task to get done with everything else that is pulling at me for my attention. She still struggles a little bit with getting the new swallow down. It'll come...I just need to be more consistent and then she will do better.



*Her little hands are always wandering and trying to find something to grab onto. She likes to try and grab the spoon from me when I'm feeding her. So I usually will give her one to hold onto to occupy her while I'm feeding her. She has even grabbed the bowl one time and tipped it over and spilled the cereal. Silly girl.

*We have been trying to teach her how to hold a bottle. She is doing pretty good. She does better with a shorter bottle than the longer bottle. With time she will perfect it.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've been getting caught up on your blog. Oh my goodnes, I can't believe how old Grant looks in his picture! He is such a handsome little boy.

I need roll lessons, too. Those look amazing. My kids think homemade bread comes from Rhodes frozen dough....

Everyone is getting so big. I love all your pictures.