Grace's 6-month check-up

She weighed 14 lbs. 5 oz. (16th percentile), 26.2 inches long (63rd percentile) and her head is in the 52nd percentile. She received three shot vaccines and one oral vaccine. We'll go back for her 9-month appointment in May. 

Grace: 6 months

She has discovered the tag on her blanket and it's her favorite part. She will fiddle with it in her hand until she gets to the tag and then she will just suck on it.

She is so close to sitting up on her own but she's just not quite there yet. She leans really far forward and usually falls over after a few seconds. But she's still my little rolling queen and is even trying to scoot her little butt up in the air and push off on her legs when she's on her belly. Oy vey!

Her morning nap still isn't great. She seems to be in a pattern as of late where she takes just a short 30-40 minute nap around 10am and then her longer nap in the afternoon, around 1pm. And then I had been putting her down for another short cat nap around 5:30 but the past few days she's refusing to take it so I think we can nix that one and just put her to bed early. We were putting her to bed around 7:30 or 8pm (the same time as Caiden), but there's no way she can last that long if she doesn't take that third nap. So now we're trying to re-work our evening schedule. I forget how things change so much in the first year and you've really got to be open to change all the time.

There are no teeth popping through yet but I think they are oh so very close. She is constantly chewing and biting on anything she can get her hands on...including her hands.

She has said, "mama" once. It was a few nights ago in the middle of the night and she was having a coughing episode and kind of crying. Out of his slumber Marc immediately pops up and says, "She just said mama!" Again -trying not to compare- but Caiden was saying it all the time by now so she better get on the ball!

She's been sleeping in our bed and she just loves it. It's going to be so hard to break this. We try to put her down in her own bed but she always ends up in our bed by the morning. Part of the issue is that we've had a nasty cold going around our house. We all had it really bad about a month ago and then last week we got it again. Not as harsh, but still no fun. Caiden now is just trying to get rid of this gnarly cough that will probably stick around for another week or so and poor Grace has it too, she even wakes herself up in the middle of night and starts crying because she's uncomfortable -which is why she ends up in our bed. She seems to sleep so much better and hopefully the more sleep she gets the faster she'll recover.

I can't believe it's been 6 months. We are starting to see her personality come out more every day. She loves kisses and hugs and would be totally happy if you just held her all day long. She's obsessed with Caiden and sometimes he is the only one that can make her happy...and she just makes us so, so happy!