6 Months Old!

I can hardly believe it, but Lily is 6 months old today. Somehow it seems much longer and much shorter than that. Being pregnant, giving birth, packing up our life in Tucson, and Joe starting school seems a lifetime away. At the same time it feels like we just moved in. I uploaded a bunch of pictures to the computer and I can't believe how small she was! I know she's still a little sweet pea, but she was even smaller then. And she was such an angry little lump. Poor thing, before we started supplementing with formula she was hungry all the time. 


Now Lily is 10lbs 13oz and 24.5 inches long. She can sit up by herself (with some pillows around for padding when she tumbles over), laughs hysterically at peek-a-boo, babbles most of the day, rolls over, loves to chew on her toes, turns pages of cloth books, and likes to cuddle with large drinking glasses. She's starting to show some real personality. She is a huge ham and loves having an audience other than myself. She's very silly and flirts with everyone by acting all shy and batting her long eyelashes before smiling and laughing with them. She really likes listening to music and when I sit at the piano with her she likes to put her little hands on mine like she's playing. Sometimes she even presses a couple of keys. So cute.


To celebrate her half birthday, we did a couple of things. She is FINALLY big enough for the Johnny Jump-up so we ran out and got one at Target yesterday. So far she likes it. She's not quite heavy enough to make it bounce much but she likes spinning herself around and chewing on the edge. This morning we had a little dance party while listening to some Pete Seeger on our record player that I just figured out how to use again. And Lily tried her first bites of solid food! She's been acting ready to eat for about a month. She makes chewing motions when we eat, watches every bite we take, tries to grab food from our plates and gets pretty angry when we take it away. We ground up some steel cut oats and mixed them in with some formula. As soon as she's used to the more solid texture we're gonna jump in with some delicious fruits and vegetables. Woohoo! 


Even though she acts like she really wants it, she made the funniest faces ever when we gave her the oatmeal this morning. But she kept coming back for more. I doubt she actually swallowed much of anything, but we had a good time.