So close!

She's working so hard and is getting so close to crawling. Guess we need to start baby proofing!

Six Month Photos

Here are some of my favorites:

March Update

I guess I'm not very good at this whole blogging thing. I'm trying, I promise. But by the time we get home from work, do dinner, a short walk (when the weather cooperates), bath time, reading and bedtime, I'm ready for bed myself! And I only have ONE child. So I'll do my best to provide a quick update on some of Amelia's newest accomplishments, and promise (once again!) to do better about posting more often. It's been a busy couple of weeks. Amelia is now:

• Eating! I've been making a lot of her food (pureeing fruits and veggies), but she is even more interested in what we are eating. We have started giving her small bites from our dinner...and tonight she actually picked up pieces of chicken and fed herself!


• Crawling (backwards :) She can push up on all fours and rocks back and forth, but the only movement is in the wrong direction. She's making progress, and I know any day now she will take off.


• Babbling...we gets lots of mamamama and dadadadada and bababababa. She's most talkative in the mornings and coming home from daycare...like she can't wait to share her day with us. I love it!


• Sleeping!! She goes to bed at 7:30 (without a fight!), sleeps until 5:00 or 6:00. On the weekends I wake up and feed her, and put her back in bed so we all get a little more sleep. Last Sunday, Jon and I were up at 8:30 and Amelia slept until 9:00. I don't remember the last time she wasn't the one to wake us up.

Everyone was right...it does get easier, and it seems that 6 months was the magic number. Every day brings new discoveries, new challenges, and new excitement!

Yummy!

Amelia had her first taste of "food" on Thursday night. She has been fascinated by everything we eat, and since we hit the 6 month mark, we thought it was time. We started with rice cereal, which she seemed to like. Here is her first taste of green beans from Sunday. Verdict is still out on this one :)

Poor baby

We had Amelia's 6-month check up this week. We thought it would be pretty basic...take some measurements, get the immunizations, talk about starting solids (!!). Everything looked pretty good (she is still tiny...13 lbs/6 oz, 24.5"...still in the 10%), and then the doctor discovered the ear infection. We were all surprised! She hadn't given any indication she was in pain. She had been fussy, but she was getting over a(nother) cold, and we thought it was due to that. I guess she's one tough little chica! Over the last week, we've been home with her quite a bit (snow days, sick days) and we were at home once again on Tuesday. I hope one of these days we'll conquer these daycare germs, but for now we are putting up quite the fight! Our remedy? Tylenol and antibiotics...and lots of love and hugs and cuddling!

Happy Valentine's Day!

These were technically taken on Sunday (before Valentine's Day), but she certainly looks like the perfect little Valentine to me!

First time in a high chair!

Slow down!

My little girl turned 6 months yesterday! I can't believe how quickly it's going. I feel like I haven't savored every moment. Those moments I thought (for sure) that I would always remember are already fading away, so I only imagine what my memory will be like years from now. It makes me happy I've tracked what I have through this blog, but that I need to do a much better job of capturing every second. I wish I could speed up work time and slow down for family-time...if only it were that easy!

Sitting up!

New discovery!