6 Months!

This post is woefully overdue, since Frankie turned 6 months 5 days ago!

Here's what's going on at 6 months for Frankie:

• She weighs 15lbs 15oz (sooo close to 16 lbs), and is 25.5" long. That puts her in 50th percentile for weight, and 75th for height for those who care about such metrics (me, in other words).
• She takes 2-3 naps during the day: a 90-120 minute nap at 9:00, a 90-120 minute nap at 1:00, and usually a 20-40 minute nap around 5:30. She goes to bed between 7 and 7:30, and usually wakes us between 6 and 7 (recently it's been much more like 6).
• I am still nursing her 4 times a day - early morning, late afternoon, bedtime, and a dream feed at 10pm.
• She loves to drink from a sippy cup! This is great news for us, since she still hates the bottle. She will drink milk (formula) and water from a sippy cup. We can usually get about 5-6 ounces of milk in her during the day, which is a vast improvement from the 1-2 ounces she was drinking from the bottle. This has allowed me to ween her of the mid-morning nurse, which means I don't pump at work any more.
  
• She is offered solids three times a day. Melanie, thank you for talking sense into me, and I am no longer tricking her into eating or forcing her to open her mouth for "one more bite", but allowing her to decide if she wants to eat, which has made both of our lives much more pleasant during meal time. She loves avocados, sweet potatoes, pears (finally, a fruit she seems to like!), and oatmeal. We've had to switch to oatmeal from rice cereal due to some, err, digestive trouble of the constipating sort. I give her water during meals from her cup, which she gets so excited about. I put her cup on the table next to her chair, and she'll look at it, "asking" for it. It's fun to be able to communicate with her this way.
• She's not quite sitting up unassisted yet, but we practice every day. She loves to stand, and has been picking at tags and other small objects with her thumb and forefinger. She has mastered the rolling, and now rolls to get to toys that are out of her reach (we have started the baby-proofing process!).
  
• She smiles readily at people, and loves, loves, loves Elizabeth (her babysitter Heather's three-year-old). Every morning when she sees her she gets really excited, and will giggle more for Elizabeth than anyone else.
• She loves to go for walks, swing at the park, and watch Maisy dog.

6 months is fun!

Attack!





My tired girl