I cannot believe my baby is six months old! Half a year! She is such a sweet and happy baby. I know that most people say that about their babies, but it's true. There are two things that make her cry: not getting her food fast enough (so funny, I really shouldn't laugh) and getting stuck on her tummy (not so funny in the middle of the night.)
Routine:
She goes down between 6:30-7:00pm, waking up around midnight for a bottle. She usually wakes up around 5am for a bottle then sleeps until 8:30ish. Nap times are all over the board. She naps about three hours after she wakes up in the morning.
She takes a bath every other day because her skin is so dry. The CeraVe cream seems to help her body, but nothing is working on her poor little cheeks. We have used: Aquafor, A&D Ointment, CeraVe, Aveno Cream, Eucerin, Cortizone, Crisco, and California Baby Cream. This is so frustrating!
Eating:
This girl has never met a food that she doesn't like. She drinks about three bottles a day, mixed 80% milk and 20% purified water (to help out her kidneys.) She also eats: bananas, sweet potatoes, carnival squash, applesauce, prunes and avocado like a champ. She gets two food cubes for breakfast and lunch and three for dinner (all with cereal mixed in to bulk it up.) Now that she is eating solids her acid reflux and gas problems have completely dissapeared. Yay!
Clothing:
She is wearing 6-9 month clothes now. I had to go shopping last week and buy her a new wardrobe. She is hypersensitive to elastics, fabrics, buttons, zippers... and as it turns out, all of Zoë's old clothes have those things. Awesome. So, I had to go shopping. Darn I had great luck at The Children's Place and stocked up. They have a wonderful assortment of yoga pants (darling little 6-9 month yoga pants!) t-shirts, and dresses. So cute!
Other Tidbits:
She loves her exersaucer and will play happily in it for thirty minutes at a time, no problem. She also loves to lay on a blanket in the bathroom while I get ready (in her diaper) and chew on her toes and stuffed animals. Again, she will do that for about half an hour. Speaking of stuffed animals, her favorites are: green jelly bean, Tyrone, Austin, and her baby. She also likes to sleep with her yellow silky blanket and her "Girls Rule" leopard print blankey that her daddy bought her.
She simply adores her big sister and watches her intently when ever she is in the room. Nobody can make her laugh like Zoë. She is also extremely curious about Archie. She will even stop eating (shocking) to watch him.
New Tricks:
-She rolls easily from her back to her tummy.
-She sits up all by herself without a problem. She tips over occassionally, but it doesn't bother her at all.
-She has a tooth! It broke through at 5 1/2 months. She is still chewing on everything she can get her hands on, but nothing else has surfaced.
Now for some cute Eden pictures from the past month.
We now return to our regularly schuedled blog programming.