6 Months and Catching Up

Happy 6 Months to Lucy! Our little butterball is almost 13 pounds. The official doctor's appointment is on Tuesday and we will share the stats then.

She still is a little slow on the movement category - she almost can roll over - she hangs out on her side and then rolls to hang out on the other side.

She does a great job on her tummy and can push herself way up as well as circle around. We joke that she will be army crawling before she can even sit. Each week we can tell she gets stronger.

She talks ALL THE TIME - NON STOP! She babbles and makes all sorts of noises and tones. She has to have someone by her and interacting with her - which can be good and bad depending on what needs to get done!

She is obsessed with Heidi - no surprise there!

She finally is eating some solids. We are still trying out the veggies but should start a fruit or two next week.

As far as sleeping through the night...well maybe not so much - she has days in a row where she will sleep from 7:30pm to 5:00am - but most nights there is a least one to two plugging of the pacifier. A lot has to do with her sensitive belly. It seems like after eating the same food for three days her system finally adjusts and she is fine, but we are starting a new food every week - which means - every first couple days of the week...upset belly!

Her hair is slowly coming back in... Its still curly on top, but its too short to tell if it will be curly or not.

Her eyes are hanging out in a hazel brown blue situation.

No teeth and no signs of teeth.

She still wears 3 months clothes, but I have been putting 6 months on her - just because we have so many and I have super cute ones!

I just upped her ounces per bottle this week to 6 ounces and nope - she doesn't finish them. She just has a little belly!

She loves toys and anything she can talk to. She loves screens, like the TV or the Kindle touch games and wants our phones!

Everything goes into her mouth and after she tastes it, she talks about it. ;)

She is a joy to play with and is finally in a routine! She is honestly a happy baby - now if we can just get her through the night on a regular basis!

Today is fun day Sunday - or as Heidi likes to call it  - Stay At Home Day where I where PJs all day - yep. We just got a new vacuum and were testing out the newly vacuumed carpets... it was gross how much it pulled up!!! Some fun sister pictures...

For some reason during our "photo session" Brewski insisted on joining in and would not budge. Speaking of Brew dog - it was his birthday last Wednesday. He is officially 9 years old!

You may notice Heidi's hair has been down a lot - she will NOT let me put it up. Its all about headbands and leaving it down. I think that's what the other girls at school do. Speaking of school... Heidi might have her first boyfriend - a boy named Braxton. I have not witnessed anything - but protective daddy has. His birthday is this coming weekend - so I will report back if I see any funny business. :)

We got all of our chores done and Heidi has been dying to make these cardboard inside sleds. I guess they made some at school but Heidi didn't get a chance to ride...so let's do it at home! Heidi and I worked on one version and daddy criticized it, so he built his own. I hate to admit but his worked better than ours but ours was prettier... We might get a divorce over this and in the reason why: irreconcilable differences over cardboard sled making...just saying...
 

And then we had a spurt of energy before nap time - I tried to catch some pictures of Heidi but she was running full speed!!!

Lucy was loving her running around too!

I think this picture is great - it might be my new desktop picture at work... :)

And its time for naps...

Tomorrow is a big day. Lucy gets her MRI on her spine. Its just precaution to rule out a tethered spine. They don't think she has it, but its better to catch now versus later when damage can be done to her nerves.  We go in bright and early. Two things we are nervous for:

1. They do put her under, which always will make any parent nervous!
2. We can't feed her past 2am... Lucy is not cool when she can't eat... Seriously... I don't know what we will do...

Then Heidi went to the dentist this last week. She did a great job! She does have some cavities they have to fix and they will put her under for that -more to come.

Funny story - Heidi got a fake tooth at the dentist and the dentist told her to put it under her pillow and the tooth fairy will come. Heidi was all excited because she was going to get money. Well it came to bed time and I was like - don't forget to put your tooth under your pillow and then the tooth fairy will come take it and leave money. Heidi was very concerned that she would no longer have her tooth and for awhile didn't not want the fairy to take it. In the very end - she did choose money over the tooth - but it was A LOT of convincing! The tooth is in her hand below...

Wish us luck with the MRI tomorrow!!!