Six months old!

Our "little" baby is six months old!  It's been so much fun!  I have my days when I really, really wish I could be anywhere but at home, but about 95% of the time, I am so happy I get the opportunity to spend all my time with her.  She is so fun to have around and really, I've pretty much forgotten what life was even like before her.  I lose track of time just watching her and her little brain in action.  It's so fun because she still has to plan every single move she makes.  She stares down an object and then moves toward it with such intention and determination...I just love it!  I even love it when she gets frustrated and just lets out a scream, only to start her mission to grab her...rattle, teether, nuk, again.

Her 6 month check up was yesterday and she weighs 15lb. 10oz. (42nd percentile) and is 26.125" long (60th percentile).  Her shots went much better this time around and she barely cried.  Which means that I didn't even cry!  Woo hoo!  First time for me.  Anyway, I thought the day was going to go well after her shots went so well, but I was wrong.  She slept for 40 minutes instead of 1 and a half to 2 hours in the afternoon and didn't take a little catnap at all at the end of the day.  Which means, this is what she looked like after only 3 ounces of her last bottle.

Of course, this is cute.  Not so cute was one full hour of uncontrollable crying that preceded this cuteness.  And that was with me holding her and after taking baby Tylenol.  Yeah...it was one of those days.  But, today is a new day and I can see her rolling around in her crib and practicing her vocal skills.  I'm thinking she feels better.  

So, here's a rundown of Evie's new talents.

Rolling from back to front and front to back.  She's been able to roll from front to back since she was 2 months old, but it was more of an accident than anything.  She just kind of tipped over.  Now she does it on purpose and it's pretty consistent.  This just started over the weekend.  As far as her rolling from back to front, well, it took me three whole days to finally see that for myself!  Honestly.  Darin saw her right away though.

Eating oatmeal and now peas.  The oatmeal went much better than the rice and the peas are going well also.  We'll be adding another new veggie this week...carrots!  Oh, the anticipation is just killing me!  She's quite intent on "helping" in the feeding process and holy moley, is she a mess!  She also hasn't quite gotten down the method of eating off a spoon.  She still sucks it like a bottle.  Kinda funny, but it really adds to the insane mess.  We now just strip her down and feed her in her diaper and bib and then immediately give her a bath after she's done. I'm really hoping she improves on these skills quickly because I'm really not looking forward to cleaning up that mess in the morning and eventually afternoon too.

Evie vs. Oatmeal...the oatmeal won.
This is what she looks like when dad feeds her!

In her new highchair!  She doesn't like the Bumbo, so we've moved on.
This is what she looks like when mom feeds her!
(And this is about a week after she started eating.  Guess she is getting the hang of it!)

Scooting.  As soon as she mastered rolling over, she moved right on to scooting.  She isn't officially scooting anywhere yet as she has absolutely no hand involvement at all, except to reach out for the object she's going after, but she gets her little legs underneath her and pushes off.  She only moves about a centimeter, but she seems pretty excited about that since it's an actual mode of "transportation".  Anyway, she does it over and over until she reaches the object she wants to grab.  It's exhausting.  To think we all started out this way sometimes just blows my mind.

Teething...we think.  Her mouth is like a faucet.  I am not kidding.  I'm worried she isn't getting enough fluid to keep up with the amount of drool coming out of her.  Unbelievable.  And also, unbelievably gross to catch a hand drenched in spit in the eye or ear.  Ick.  I can feel a bump on the bottom gums, but so far, nothing other than that.

Swimming.  OK, so she doesn't swim, but she makes her floatie look good.  We took her to the pool a couple weeks ago and she acted like it was something she does all the time.  No big deal.

Had to throw a pic with the whole ensamble on here.
Dang, she's cute!

We're having a great time down here!  She just gets more and more fun every day.