StephySite KiddoBlog: 6 Months Old

An entire week past Dani's 6 month birthday I am finally getting around to writing this post. In my defense it's been a long week. Dani's six month birthday and Mother's Day was last Sunday the 8th, my birthday and my older brother's birthday was Wednesday May 11th, Dani's 6 month check up was Monday the 9th, her 6 month pictures were Saturday the 14th, and to top off a week of busyness and working extra to make up time at work, my mom was in the hospital while Chris' dad is in Kentucky helping to care for Chris' sick grandfather.

Needless to say, I've been swamped but happy to have gotten through the week with only a few tears.

It's been a busy week in terms of skills too. Dani recently learned to kick her legs hard enough to result in moving her body. She learned to swing a good punch. She experimented with a sippy cup and better yet, tried to drink water from her bathtub toy. She has taken to holding her turtle under the shower head and pulling it to her mouth to "drink". By the time the turtle gets to her mouth the water has either been dumped or has drained, in any case, she gets the concept. The doctor recommended we drop the crib down to the lowest level, which I thought might be too early until I watched Dano Dano pull herself in the high chair.

She's been eating solids all week, 2-3 times in addition to her milk. She has tried squash, green beans, peas, bananas, pears, and peaches. She's had some rice cereal, but who wants that when you can have either something as tasty as peaches, or something as gross as peas when you spit them everywhere! Luckily the only reaction we've seen is a diaper rash from squash. We'll try again in a few weeks.

We've had some visitors this week, both grandmas, the neighbors, Jen, Becky, Brian (aka Skweak), Eva, and Jami. 6 months brings out all the loonies! (wink wink, just seeing who's reading)! We even had a quick visit to mom's office to visit the few brave souls that stick around on a Friday afternoon. Talk about loonies! (wink wink!)

With all of that said, it's time to share the real reason people come here, the stats and the pictures!

6 months stats: 24" tall with a head circumference of 15 3/4" weighing in at 11 pounds 6 ounces. (2nd to 5th percentiles) Wearing some 3 months clothes, some 6 months and very few 6-9 mo's.