I Love This Kid!

I just feel like posting some cute stuff...

This is Charlie's newest hat. We are starting to get quite the collection. Maybe that will be her thing... Hats. Tallon has a lot of hats too. They are going to be so much a like.

These are our new Tickle Monster gloves that came in our Tickle Monster kit. She laughs so hard when we tickle her. I love it. I am pretty sure she is not phased by the gloves, but we like them.

This is what our TV room looks like now. It has been taken over by baby things. She seems to like it though. She likes being able sit up and play. Also, I think she likes watching TV with us.

I just really like this picture of her fat belly showing.

There are so many things that Charlie does that I don't want to forget. I keep a baby book with all the milestones and firsts, but I don't write down the really important things. Like the way she snuggles into me when I am feeding her last bottle before she falls asleep. (All the other bottles throughout the day she holds on her own). Also, while I am feeding her that bottle she always rubs her foot on the something... it's so cute to see that tiny foot twirl around until it finds something to touch. Lately she has been moving around a lot more in her crib. The last few nights when I put her in her crib she props her foot up on the side of the crib. It is so funny to see her chubby little leg up in the air and the pajama covered toes poking out of the side of the crib.

I know there are a lot more things to write, but these all happened tonight and are fresh on my mind. She changes so much every day. I feel like it is all going so fast, but I also can't wait to see what she is going to do next.

Half A Year!

Charlie is now 6 months old!

I seriously can't believe it. There are times when I think the day feels like it couldn't get any slower, but then I think about Charlie and how fast she has grown... I don't want to speed things up at all. She has been growing and changing so much over the past 6 months. Everything is so different from that first day we brought her home. When she first arrived home she didn't do much... she was calm, quiet, sleepy and not very heavy. Now she is loud, curious, happy, hungry and huge!

We have re-introduced some solid foods. We started with rice cereal. She ate that one time a day for a week. Then we gave her some sweet potatoes for a week. At about this time she started waking up around 10:00 or 11:00. We would have to give her half of a bottle to get her back to sleep. Two days in to the sweet potato week we started giving her cereal in the evening before her bedtime bottle. That seemed to do the trick. This week we have started giving her squash. She is sleeping great and does not seem to be having any tummy problems. This weekend I am going to give her pears.

Over the past few months Charlie has had some good and bad sleep habits. It seems to be an off and on thing. Some weeks she sleeps great and others not so much. Last weekend she started getting very fussy and she just seemed uncomfortable. We think she is probably teething. She had started some pretty bad sleeping habits during this time. Tallon finally decided that she was fine and we needed to make sure she was sleeping in her crib every night. This is all stuff I totally agree with... he just didn't feel this way until last weekend. Ever since he decided that she couldn't sleep in her swing or in our room she has been sleeping great. Maybe she just needed to know that now mom and dad both are the same page when it comes to her sleeping habits.

Charlie started sitting up on her own about week after her 5 month birthday. I was so excited when she started doing this. It was just in time for Christmas! She has gotten so good at sitting up that we have decided to transition her to the big bath tub. She has done great! The very first time we sat her in there she looked at me with a scared sad face, but she got over it quickly. She started splashing and playing with her rubber ducky. It is a little slippery, but I think it will all go well.

She really getting to be so much to play with. She smiles so much and laughs at just about everything we do. She is really an amazing baby and we love her so much.