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: