6-Month Update

I have a bit of a cold, so I'm just going to copy/paste the email I sent out to family and friends. :P

Morgan turned 6 months old this past weekend! She is getting to be such a big girl. She had her 6-month checkup today. She weighed 19 lbs. 12 oz. and is 26.5 inches tall. She’s in the 95th percentile for weight and the 75th for height. She was also in the 90th percentile for head circumference, but I can’t recall the measurement. She got another set of shots, which she was not happy about, but there are no more shots until her 12-month appointment. If placed in a sitting position, she can sit up by herself and play with her toys. She loves to grab anything she can get her hands on and put it in her mouth. She is drooling rivers, but still no teeth, yet. She had her first “Baby and Me” swim class on Monday. Greg took her in the water, because I had/have a cold. Despite my best efforts, Morgan caught a little of my cold, too, but we don’t have a fever, so that’s good. For my birthday, I bought Morgan the Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Kitchen. J She eating some solid foods now. Her favorite is green beans and she doesn’t really like the fruits – go figure. She’s working on being able to hold her own bottle. Her sleeping patterns are not in one (a pattern) – they are all over the place. One night, she slept 5 hours, then the next 3 nights she was up every 1.5-2 hours. She’s working on it, though. We took her to Sear Portrait Studio on Saturday and I will include a link to those photos. I think she looks just like her Daddy and everyone says she looks like me. I guess she’s a little of both, as is to be expected.

Here are some pictures from the 6-month portrait session:

Almost 6 months old!

Wow, it has been a long time since I've posted. I just don't seem to find the time much, but I'm trying to keep it up. Morgan will be 6 months old this weekend and I can't believe it. She is so "talkative" now and makes soft and loud noises, testing out her voice and it's so cute. We're going to Sears Portrait Studio on Saturday and that should be fun. I'm also going to a "Mother's Night In" at a friend's house on Saturday, so I'm very excited.

Morgan has been eating solid foods, again, and it's going pretty well. She eats green beans and carrots, mostly. I tried to give her pears and she made a sour face, it was pretty funny. It's also funny that she eats her green beans with such enthusiasm, and then makes faces at her fruit. I guess that's a good thing. I gave her sweet peas one day and that afternoon she broke out on the side of her head. I don't know if it was related, but I'm stopping the sweet peas for a while. My husband feeds her baby oatmeal cereal in the morning, and I also give her diluted juice once a day, to help with constipation. My poor baby cries so hard sometimes, when it's time to make a poopie diaper. It's so sad to watch. Maybe I need to throw prunes back into the mix.

She hadn't been sleeping very well, getting up about every 1.5-2 hours. Then, yesterday, one of the mommies in the playgroup posted a thread on the messageboard asking for tips on getting baby to sleep better. Most sleep training involved getting your baby to the crib drowsy, but awake, so they can put themselves to sleep. I wasn't planning on trying that last night, but it just so happened that she was too full for her bedtime feeding, so I just had to put her to bed awake. She smiled at me in the dark and wiggled around, but I turned on the humidifier (which makes white noise) and that's what I use, nightly, as her "time for bed" signal. I left the room and I could hear her wiggling around and came back a couple of times and she was on her side, still wiggling. I came back a third time and she was asleep! :O She slept from 8:45pm-12:45am! Four hours is A LOT for her. I fed her a little and then she slept from 1:00am-4:45am! That was almost another 4 hours. I changed her diaper and fed her and put her back in the crib and she slept until 6:20am. Wow! I got about 8 hours of sleep, with only 2 interruptions. As usual, this could be a fluke, but I hope not. :)

After some waiting on a decision from my husband, we've decided to enroll Morgan is a "Baby & Me" swimming class. I want her to become familiar with the water and learn some water safety skills. I think it's best to start her out young, so she isn't afraid. I'm very excited, but it's so pricey - $70/month! That covers one 30-minute class a week. They told me when I first toured the place that they had "Open Swim" on Friday nights, for extra practice time. What they didn't tell me, was that it's $4 per person over age 4. If we (my husband and I) went every Friday, that'd be an extra $32 per month! They give you a $25 credit per person you refer and hopefully I can get a few and that will help offset the cost.

Morgan's 6-month appointment is on the 20th, so we'll see what all her stats are, then. Last time I weighed her, she weighed 19.5 pounds! I'm not looking forward to her shots, again. She tolerates them well, but it's still no fun at all.

We bought her a walker a while back and she loves it. The only place she can use it is the kitchen, but she loves to move around. She still loves her Precious Planet Jumperoo and Baby Einstein Exersaucer. Oh, and she can now sit up! I can sit her on the floor and put toys in front of her and she'll play. :) I put pillows or the Boppy behind her, though, because she does topple over every once in a while. Well, it's time to change another diaper. Here are a few pictures and videos for the road: