It's hard to believe that our little Girl is 6 months old (half a year) already.. Time is sure going by quickly, I almost wish time would slow down a bit.. ;-) She has blessed our life so much over the past 6 months, brought so much more joy and laughter into our lives.. We are so grateful that God has chosen to give her to us and at this time.. She is definitely a blessing and we thank God for her everyday.. I failed to mention on the last blog a couple of things so I thought I'd add it on here.. 1 thing I forgot to mention was that she loves sleeping on her belly the moment we lay her down she flips right over onto her belly and she's a mover while she sleeps as well we've noticed that since a few days after she was born when she was sleeping in her bassinet, but now that she has more room in her crib she moves all over. 2nd thing I forgot to mention was that she LOVES the itsy bitsy spider song, we do motions and everything. ;-) It especially helps her when she's crabby in the car I'll start singing that song to her and she stops crying and just listens it's so funny.. So we try singing it to her to calm her down and so far it seems to work..
She had her 6 month check up on Wednesday.. She is up to 16.4lbs is what they told us, but 16.2 is what they wrote down.. so she's in the 49th percentile, she is 26.7 inches in the 78 percentile. She was given 3 shots and a oral one again.. She did SO much better this time around with her shots, no fever and not crabby, so much easier this time around.. Daddy made sure to tell her nurse he didn't like the way the nurse did it last time and so this time they did a much better job.. Dr. Said that everything looks good and that she's doing everything she should be doing at her age, expect for pulling herself up with the help of us holding her hands of course.. She said she's advanced and doing a 9 month thing and that she thinks she'll be an early walker..
Over the past month we've gone though quite a bit with her.. We took her in to see if she had an ear infection since she had been really crabby and playing with her ear and pulling on it, Dr. said that she was fine no ear infection and maybe she's pulling on her ear from teething since the ear and throat are all connected to her jaw it can cause issues... She also had her first cold it wasn't to bad she just got stuffy.. It bothered me more then it did her.. She was just her normal happy self doing all her normal things and me being a paranoid mommy was worried about her, I didn't think she was old enough to get a cold already.. It lasted about a week and we had to suck her nose out with the nose sucker thingy(not sure what it's actually called , Gil says its a Nasal Aspirator. lol) She hated it and still hates it, but I guess I don't blame her. We put saline drops in her nose and got her a better humidifier and some Vicks pads to put in her humidifier, lifted up her mattress to help her sleep better and breathe as well... after about a week of all that she seemed to be getting better, but then we noticed her squeaking whenever she would breathe in and after a couple of days of it just randomly happening we decided since our clinic was closed we would call urgent care and talk to a nurse to see if it's something to be worried about if we need to bring her in, they decided they wanted to see her, so we brought her in and the Dr. listened to her lungs and said he didn't hear anything that we should be worried about. He said that this age they worry about RSV, pneumonia, etc. after checking her out he said she seemed good, if we get worried to count her breathing and whatnot. She seems to be doing better now with it and not as often during the day. Just as we thought she was getting better, she started back up with her cold again.. Ugh.. She doesn't seem as stuffy as when she first got it, but she's stuffy again poor baby... so back at doing everything we were doing all over again to get her better.. I'm really hoping that she doesn't end up with Asthma and Allergies like I have and be stuffy most of the year..(Gil says She'll be just fine, I think he's the optimist around here. Lol)
She's been fully holding her head up, we are still working on her sitting up skills, she just doesn't like to sit up she'd rather stand (with our help) then sit.. She's so close to sitting by herself though she did it a few times for a few seconds so I'm sure she will master that soon... She is a crawler well sort of.. She does the Army crawl, doesn't lift her tummy off the floor yet, but she still gets to were she needs to go in a hurry.. My favorite is when she eyes something up and crawls to it and we tell her "No" and "Come back" and "Get this other toy", she stops and looks at you and smiles and then heads the direction she was going for... She's such a little stinker but we LOVE her! We've started giving her some baby food, so far she's eaten sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots and peas and she LOVES it. she eats it so good.. we tried more of the cereal, but she just doesn't seems to like it as much as her veggies, Her Dr. said to give her veggies in the morning since she doesn't like the cereal..(Gil said to try Frosted Flakes, but the Dr. said "NO"...Now Gils sad...Lol) She likes to watch us eat and sometimes we look over and her and it looks like she's trying to chew it's so cute.. She LOVES her jumper toy, we catch her jumping in it and she picks up her feet off the ground and swings for a couple seconds, it's hilarious.. We had to lift up her Jumper to the next level.. She still LOVES listening to Daddy Sing and play his guitar for her.. She has a high pitch voice sometimes when she talks almost like she's found her voice and likes to hear it.. Ha.. She is holding her bottle got to help her sometimes holding it up, she loves to grab our faces while she drinks her bottle or even I've caught her staring at her hands and watching her move them almost like she's waving... She has a Favorite song that Gil sings to her, as soon as she hears it she just has the biggest smile on her face.. She also has a favorite commercial that she loves it's that Good-Will Halloween commercial.. She's also been learning to Mimic noises that we make..(Gil says Boo-Ya!)
Can you tell I had Gil proof read this he added big words and things about himself.. Haha.. We just got in her High chair the other day.. She looks so tiny in it, but it's so much easy to feed her in it since she sits more still and up higher.. We are gonna try to get some of those puff things for her to try while she sits in her high chair.. The only thing with the tray being there it feels like she's so far away.. We have a baby food processer and are thinking about trying to make our own baby food we shall see how well that works.. Ha..
Here are a few pictures we took of her Wednesday morning at my Aunts house before we took her in for her Dr. Appointment... ;-)
A few of our favorites from a photo shoot this morning..
It's hard to believe that our little Girl is 6 months old (half a year) already.. Time is sure going by quickly, I almost wish time would slow down a bit.. ;-) She has blessed our life so much over the past 6 months, brought so much more joy and laughter into our lives.. We are so grateful that God has chosen to give her to us and at this time.. She is definitely a blessing and we thank God for her everyday.. I failed to mention on the last blog a couple of things so I thought I'd add it on here.. 1 thing I forgot to mention was that she loves sleeping on her belly the moment we lay her down she flips right over onto her belly and she's a mover while she sleeps as well we've noticed that since a few days after she was born when she was sleeping in her bassinet, but now that she has more room in her crib she moves all over. 2nd thing I forgot to mention was that she LOVES the itsy bitsy spider song, we do motions and everything. ;-) It especially helps her when she's crabby in the car I'll start singing that song to her and she stops crying and just listens it's so funny.. So we try singing it to her to calm her down and so far it seems to work..
She had her 6 month check up on Wednesday.. She is up to 16.4lbs is what they told us, but 16.2 is what they wrote down.. so she's in the 49th percentile, she is 26.7 inches in the 78 percentile. She was given 3 shots and a oral one again.. She did SO much better this time around with her shots, no fever and not crabby, so much easier this time around.. Daddy made sure to tell her nurse he didn't like the way the nurse did it last time and so this time they did a much better job.. Dr. Said that everything looks good and that she's doing everything she should be doing at her age, expect for pulling herself up with the help of us holding her hands of course.. She said she's advanced and doing a 9 month thing and that she thinks she'll be an early walker..
Over the past month we've gone though quite a bit with her.. We took her in to see if she had an ear infection since she had been really crabby and playing with her ear and pulling on it, Dr. said that she was fine no ear infection and maybe she's pulling on her ear from teething since the ear and throat are all connected to her jaw it can cause issues... She also had her first cold it wasn't to bad she just got stuffy.. It bothered me more then it did her.. She was just her normal happy self doing all her normal things and me being a paranoid mommy was worried about her, I didn't think she was old enough to get a cold already.. It lasted about a week and we had to suck her nose out with the nose sucker thingy(not sure what it's actually called , Gil says its a Nasal Aspirator. lol) She hated it and still hates it, but I guess I don't blame her. We put saline drops in her nose and got her a better humidifier and some Vicks pads to put in her humidifier, lifted up her mattress to help her sleep better and breathe as well... after about a week of all that she seemed to be getting better, but then we noticed her squeaking whenever she would breathe in and after a couple of days of it just randomly happening we decided since our clinic was closed we would call urgent care and talk to a nurse to see if it's something to be worried about if we need to bring her in, they decided they wanted to see her, so we brought her in and the Dr. listened to her lungs and said he didn't hear anything that we should be worried about. He said that this age they worry about RSV, pneumonia, etc. after checking her out he said she seemed good, if we get worried to count her breathing and whatnot. She seems to be doing better now with it and not as often during the day. Just as we thought she was getting better, she started back up with her cold again.. Ugh.. She doesn't seem as stuffy as when she first got it, but she's stuffy again poor baby... so back at doing everything we were doing all over again to get her better.. I'm really hoping that she doesn't end up with Asthma and Allergies like I have and be stuffy most of the year..(Gil says She'll be just fine, I think he's the optimist around here. Lol)
She's been fully holding her head up, we are still working on her sitting up skills, she just doesn't like to sit up she'd rather stand (with our help) then sit.. She's so close to sitting by herself though she did it a few times for a few seconds so I'm sure she will master that soon... She is a crawler well sort of.. She does the Army crawl, doesn't lift her tummy off the floor yet, but she still gets to were she needs to go in a hurry.. My favorite is when she eyes something up and crawls to it and we tell her "No" and "Come back" and "Get this other toy", she stops and looks at you and smiles and then heads the direction she was going for... She's such a little stinker but we LOVE her! We've started giving her some baby food, so far she's eaten sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots and peas and she LOVES it. she eats it so good.. we tried more of the cereal, but she just doesn't seems to like it as much as her veggies, Her Dr. said to give her veggies in the morning since she doesn't like the cereal..(Gil said to try Frosted Flakes, but the Dr. said "NO"...Now Gils sad...Lol) She likes to watch us eat and sometimes we look over and her and it looks like she's trying to chew it's so cute.. She LOVES her jumper toy, we catch her jumping in it and she picks up her feet off the ground and swings for a couple seconds, it's hilarious.. We had to lift up her Jumper to the next level.. She still LOVES listening to Daddy Sing and play his guitar for her.. She has a high pitch voice sometimes when she talks almost like she's found her voice and likes to hear it.. Ha.. She is holding her bottle got to help her sometimes holding it up, she loves to grab our faces while she drinks her bottle or even I've caught her staring at her hands and watching her move them almost like she's waving... She has a Favorite song that Gil sings to her, as soon as she hears it she just has the biggest smile on her face.. She also has a favorite commercial that she loves it's that Good-Will Halloween commercial.. She's also been learning to Mimic noises that we make..(Gil says Boo-Ya!)
Can you tell I had Gil proof read this he added big words and things about himself.. Haha.. We just got in her High chair the other day.. She looks so tiny in it, but it's so much easy to feed her in it since she sits more still and up higher.. We are gonna try to get some of those puff things for her to try while she sits in her high chair.. The only thing with the tray being there it feels like she's so far away.. We have a baby food processer and are thinking about trying to make our own baby food we shall see how well that works.. Ha..
Here are a few pictures we took of her Wednesday morning at my Aunts house before we took her in for her Dr. Appointment... ;-)
A few of our favorites from a photo shoot this morning..
