Happy 6 Months Lil' Lady!

Namera,
This has been an emotional week. Your brother turned two last week and now you are a half year old. Time is speeding by and I'd like it to slow down. Your dad and I are loving every minute though.

You now weigh 15 lbs 6 oz, are 26 in tall and have a head measuring 16.75 in. You are in the middle of the road even though you have rolls on rolls but you are 3 lbs less than your brother at this age so you seem so small. You are our lil' lady so this is just fitting. You are comfortably wearing 3-6 month and 6 month clothes. Your disposable diapers are a size 2 but as soon as these run out you will be in size 3. Our cloth diapers are still not holding everything in so those are for when you are home.

You are on the "awake for 2 hours" nap schedule with the occasional 3-4 hour wakings because you have stopped being able to fall asleep in your carseat when we are at your brother's activities. There is just too much going on. You go down at 7 p.m., have a dream feeding at 10 p.m. and then normally wake once on your own between 3 and 5:30 am, waking up for the day between 6 and 7 am.

You really are at the zoo with us!:)

You are now rolling onto your tummy and back. This has been exciting except for when you are asleep. You are not yet comfortable sleeping on your tummy and for some reason you usually won't roll back over at night so there have been a few tiresome nights. I think you are getting close to being comfortable on your tummy.

You are still absolutely enamored by your brother. Pretty much he can do no wrong in your eyes. You are regularly laughing at mommy and daddy now though.

You have found your tongue and you love it. If you are happy it is out. You also started making raspberry sounds.

A huge milestone you achieved this month is that you started swim lessons! You still hate being bathed but you don't hate the pool as much. You have had three lessons so far and you have fallen asleep at some point in every class:)

You are sitting in your high chair now during meals because you didn't want to be left out of meal time and you love it. You haven't started eating solids yet but you look pretty interested. We'll start in a couple days.

You have celebrated your brother's birthday,

gone to the Monterey Bay Aquarium,

spent your first night in a hotel,

went in a non-swimming class pool,

Spring is here,

celebrated your first St. Patrick's Day

and "celebrated" mommy's last day of having two kids under the age of two years.

You reach for everything and it goes right in your mouth. I think you also just started teething. 

You are sick, again. I am so sorry. We thought you might miss your brother's nasty bug but it finally caught up to you. You are still one happy baby though. 

We love you so much!
Mommy and Daddy