Dyar Girls Take On Their Parents Join A & K As They Grow

Wow – half a year old yesterday.  Still not sleeping.  We love you baby Katherine but this is kind of painful.  You are such a happy girl during the day.  Always mouth wide open in your contagious smile you have (some might call it catching flies but its cute).  However at night?  The best night we’ve ever had was when you slept, woke only once for a feeding around 2am and then slept some more until like 7.  That has happened like once in 3 months since you started daycare.  Maybe twice.  Alas, you seem to be an ear infection baby and I think that has a lot to do with it.  You are on ear infection number 3 and I’m not sure the antibiotics are working this time – we’ll see tomorrow at your 6 month well check.  It makes my heart ache to know that is causing you pain.  And on top of it?  Still trying to break through those first teeth.  You’ve been teething for months and I know we are close, any day now, but still not through.  At night – you want to be asleep so badly.  You still keep your eyes closed and are on your belly and trying to sleep – but you are obviously in pain and unable to get back to sleep.  We re-introduced pacis this weekend to help – during the day you can put them in your own mouth – but at night?  You just cry for us.  So not sure its helping.  Hopefully we will get this all figured out – we all need our sleep.

Even after a bad night, like last night, you then wake up cooing and all smiles – you are the happiest daytime baby.  You light up when you see your sister and you are getting mobile enough now through creeping and rolling to try and follow her.  I have an adorable video from the other night I will try and get uploaded tonight.  And she delights in your attention.  You two are truly going to be best friends and it makes me so happy.

You are really like solids – we’ve tried all the stage 1s except green beans (this week).  Your days start with a little oatmeal spiked with your daily half dose of prevacid around 7am.  You much prefer oatmeal over rice.  You do not like rice cereal anymore.  I can only get you to eat it with lots of fruit added in.  You don’t have your first bottle until after 8am once you are at school, but then again you still eat sometime after midnight.   You nap after that bottle, have some playtime and then around 11:30 or 12 its time for another bottle.  You eat a full stage 1 veggie or sometimes even more around 1pm and then down for another nap.  More playtime, a mid-afternoon bottle around 3:30.  You have fruit for dinner with us around 6, then your night time bottle around 6:45 and down for bed at 7.  Generally your best sleep is those first few hours.  Sometimes even until the feeding.  You go to bed without complaining for more than a minute or two.  I think you like having the pacis in your bed, if for no other reason that as toys to play with.  (I found two lying on the floor the other morning)

You are pretty much the size of most 1 year olds – you like your food.  The above schedule gives you 32 oz of formula (though you don’t finish every bottle) and 4 – 6 oz of solid food.  Last week you weighed 19 1/2 lbs.  I am pretty sure this is off the charts for a female girl at 6 months.  We’ll find out for sure at your well check.  I think you are adorable with your lovable thighs.  Just means 12 month clothing for the most part though occasionally I squish you into a smaller one because I liked it alot and didn’t want to not use it.

You have started babbling – mostly a sounds or wa sounds but the occasionally da sound as well.  You like to babble with your finger in your mouth mostly.  In fact that is how you babble 90% of the time.  Its pretty funny.  You aren’t really a laughing baby – the only real laughing I’ve seen lately is while watching your sister blow bubbles for you.  But you are a smiley happy baby and definitely engaged with us.  You really interact well and are happiest with attention.  You are a more social baby than your sister Amelia was – she was happy with alone time and independence but you thrive on attention.

You have graduated from the baby tub and the baby bucket car seat just this past week into the inflatable tub and the rear facing full fledged car seat.  You sit pretty well and with your size we decided it was time.  So far so good!

Probably your favorite toy is a set of toy keys to chomp on and your favorite activity is drumming.  You like to bang with your left hand in particular, whether it be while in your high chair or laying on your belly.  You sit well but are still likely to dive at any point in time, in any direction, so we have to be watchful and keep it well padded.

We love you so much baby Katherine.  I can’t believe you are 6 months old.  You are growing up fast – but at least you do it adorably and smiling the whole day away.

Love,

Mom

Excited about eating time.

You like to eat your foot – at daycare one day they had to change your socks because they were soaked from your drool.

Look mom – playing with my big sis!

You kept trying to dive into the cushions.  I think you might be the dare devil of the family.

Mmm tasty.  I chew everything.  I mean everything.

Mommy put a silly hat on Katherine so of course big sister Amelia had to try it too!

Playing around in your room.

I took these while trying to show the amount of drool you have – you can’t quite tell but it was impressive.  Strings from your mouth all the way to the floor.  And you were having fun playing with a Christmas gift from your Nanny and cousins – a little record playing.  You would swat at the buttons until something would play – you were figuring it out – it was fun to watch.  You mostly preferred chewing on the records though.