Happy Half Birthday!

That's right our precious little girl is 6 months old! Where has the time gone?! What is life like for you at 6 months, Naomi?...

We don't know your height and weight (we don't go to the doctor for a couple weeks for a well baby visit) but we think you are around 27 inches and 18lbs. You wear mostly 6-9 month clothes, but can fit into some 12 month clothes. You wear size 2 shoes, but they're still big...you have short cubby feet :) You wear size 3 diapers when we are out otherwise we use cloth diapers.

Eating- You nurse about 5 times a day and at bedtime you also take a bottle of formula (because you don't nurse much). You have recently started eating solids 3x a day. So far you have eaten cereal (oatmeal, rice, mixed grain), applesauce, Pears, bananas, carrots,sweet potatoes, avacados (which you really like!), and Squash. The only things you haven't seemed to like as much are the pears and applesauce. You like my homemade ones, but you make a face like the store bought ones are sour. You have 2 teeth now (the bottom front teeth) and are working hard on getting the top ones.

Sleeping-You are now sleeping usually about 8-9 hours straight then you nurse and go back to sleep for another 3-4 hours. (Bedtime 8pm and awake by 7:30 or 8am)Mommy is thrilled with this after all the sleep trouble we've had. Most days you still take 3 naps, but sometimes only 2, if one is especially long. Naptime lengths are varied though, sometimes you sleep and sometimes you just don't sleep much! :)

New Skills-
-You sit up really well on your own and rarely fall over (even if you do you don't cry!)You can sit up and lean all the way over and sit back up.
-You can go from sitting to getting down and playing on your belly and love to scoot around on your belly (you can go every direction, but forward :))
-You get up on your hands and knees and rock back and forth
-You can roll over both ways, but don't do it very often
-You love to stand up and hold onto things and we can even let go for just a second
-You play by yourself so well...we just have to watch you closely because you can quickly be off the blanket scooting all over the floor
-You squeal and make noises a lot, but no real 'words' yet
-You reach for everything and put everything in your mouth
-You love to play with paper and tags (who needs toys, just give me the tags!)
-You really like to be around kids when we are at church or out and about
-You don't like it when a group of people you aren't familiar with come over (like when we have ladies Bible study here) for some reason you cry and that's about the only time you cry...that and sometimes at naptime or if you're overtired

Naomi, you are such a sweet and happy baby and we love being your parents. You are more fun everyday and we thank God for blessing us with the gift of you!