6 Months Old

How are we half way through our first year with this pretty girl?!  The first six months are challenging with a newborn and waiting patiently for your baby to start to interact with you and reach many milestones.  The next six months are going to be full of fun as she starts to sit on her own, crawl, eat finger foods, pull herself up, and play with her brother more.  Each day is more and more fun as she interacts with us and learns new things.

As a happy six month old, she is rolling around, starting to sit on her own for a VERY short period of time, grabbing and playing with everything, eating baby food and puffs, and babbling away.  She really enjoys jumping in her jumper, rolling around the family room and grabbing for her toys, and sitting in her high chair to play.

Quinn started eating solids a couple of weeks ago, starting with green beans.  She didn't flinch or give a disgusted face with the beans.  She loved them and gobbled them down :)  Since, she has had squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, bananas, peaches (not a fan), prunes, pears, and apples.  I would have to say that her favorites are the veggies, in particular, green beans and carrots.  Out of the fruit she only seems to get really excited with the prunes.  She also just mastered picking up a small "puff" and getting it into her mouth this week.  She is getting really quick at it and, today, started banging her hand on her tray when she needed another one.  Quinn is drinking about 28 ounces of formula a day as well.

Sleep has still been good but a bit interrupted recently.  I think she is teething and uncomfortable at night and will wake up a few times each night looking for her pacifier.  Once it is back in her mouth she goes right back to sleep but we are still waking up a couple of times to go through this process.  I gave her some Tylenol last night because she seems more uncomfortable these last couple of days and she was able to get a better nights sleep last night.  She is still taking two naps (a morning and an afternoon) and is going to be around 7:30/8:00 and getting up around 8:00 the next day.  Now to get through teething!!

Quinn had her six month appointment this week and checked out great!! She is hitting all of the developmental check points and growing like a weed.

Weight:  18 pounds (83rd percentile)

Length:  26.5 inches (70th percentile)