Leta is 6 months old!

I am happy to be me!

Attempting to crawl

If you look REALLY close you can see a tooth.

Leta had her 6 month well baby appointment today. She weighs 15lbs 6oz (which puts her right at the 50% for weight) and she was 25 inches long (25% for height, but we noticed that her height fluctuates between the 25th and 50th percentiles, so likely she hasn't had her little growth spurt yet). So, right now, I guess she's short and fat =). Everything is great with her.

She got her second tooth (her bottom front right) tooth this past Sunday (the 11th). She can't crawl yet, but she's mobile. She can pretty much get wherever she wants to go by scooching. We have a pretty good video of her speed scooching one evening, but I can't figure out how to get it off the camera, so I'll need to get Kyle's help for that. She can also sit up. She doesn't sit straight up, but leans forward on her legs, and she can't be trusted to not get a round bottom and tip over, so sitting still requires monitoring.

She is still working on her "first tastes". We've had the "green veggies" (peas, green beans and avocado...yes, I know avocado is a fruit). We've had the "yellow veggies" (carrots, sweet potato, butternut squash, acorn squash). We're moving on to fruit. So far she's had applesauce, but I bought bananas, mangoes, and peaches today so they're the next "tastes" up. She is also allowed to start a sippy cup with water and can have "puffs". It's a cereal bite that dissolves more easily than a cheerio.

She gets up for her day between 6:30 and 7:00 and has a 45 minute nap at 9, noon, and three. She eats breakfast at 7, lunch at 11, has a snack at 2:30, supper at 5:30 and a bedtime snack at 8. Sometimes she'll wake up around 5:30 (4:50 this morning) and want to eat, but then she always goes back down without any fuss until 7. She seems to do this in cycles, so the Dr. and I decided today that perhaps it is hunger and she's needing a little something more at bedtime. Thus the puffs. So we'll try it and see. She's still wearing 3-6 month clothes, but she's beginning to outgrow them so soon she will be moving to 6-9 months clothing. I find myself dressing her and saying, "Well, looks like the last time for this outfit."

She's a very happy and contented baby who LOVES her big brother. He is the best and getting smiles and giggles out of her. He loves her a lot, but now that she is mobile, he spends a great deal of his time fearing for his trains. "HOLD HER MOMMY! She's going to get my trains!!!!!"

Here is a link to my blog post when Luke was 6 months old. It has a picture for comparison.