6 months

My how the time is just flying. Little Miss Rachel is 6 months old. I can't believe that in 6 more months she will be 1 year old. She is just growing SO fast. I don't have much time so I'm going to have to bullet point this post.

• Rachel LOVES to sit. She would rather sit than pretty much anything else.
• Tummy time isn't her favorite thing, but she doesn't hate it necessarily.
• She easily rolls from her back to her tummy, but has a harder time rolling from tummy to back. Not being able to roll easily from tummy to back is becoming problematic in the night when she rolls over and gets stuck.
• We've started her on some solid foods. She LOVES cereals (we've tried rice and oatmeal so far). She has tried pears, bananas, apples, peaches, sweet potatoes, carrots and beans. She wasn't wild about the beans or carrots. Her favorites have been the sweet potatoes and the apples. Her daddy loves that he gets to be more involved with eating now.
• She takes a bottle very well, either of breastmilk or formula (she prefers breastmilk obviously). In the afternoon she will down 6 ounces of formula within 10 minutes.
• She CAN sleep for 8 hours straight at night, though that doesn't always happen. She does take 2 to 3 naps during the day, though lately they have been only an hour or less long.
• She officially has 1 tooth popping through on the bottom. She's had all the signs of teething for months so it's kind of nice to see a tooth starting to actually show. Teething rings have been our friends lately.
• She loves to grab tags. It's funny how many things have tags on them.
• We watch a lot of PBS during the day so that she stays entertained while I work. Her favorites shows are Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Sesame Street. She LOVES Cookie Monster and gets SO excited whenever he is on screen. We also watch Thomas & Friends on Amazon which she seems to like too.
• When we went to the doctor a few weeks ago we learned she is in  the 50th (or over I'm not 100% sure) percentile in both height and weight. She's nearly 17 pounds now.
• She is officially in 6-9 or 9 month Jammies (mostly because she is so long) and is almost ready to move up to that size in the rest of her clothes. She doesn't particularly like to wear socks so we often don't wear them.
• She LOVES to be outside. However, the gnats are terrible here so we don't get to go outside for long. When we were at my parents last week she loved that she could stay outside for as long as she wants. We are looking forward to being able to be outside more this summer.
• She loves to see herself in the mirror. She thinks that Rachel girl is SO cute, and who can argue with that.
• She loves dogs (big surprise huh). We are already teaching her not to grab or even touch a dog's face and to be soft. She tends to grab onto their hair, but eventually she'll figure it out. We are glad that our boys have been  patient with her. She loves to watch them chase after balls and gets excited to see them.
• She laughs and giggles more and more. Her daddy can always get her to laugh (and he loves that).

Well that pretty much sums up our sweet little girl. I took her to get her pictures taken the 1st week of May, her 6 month pictures. Her dad wasn't there to get the best smiles out of her, but I think they turned out great. Here are a few of my favorites.

We love her so very much. Can't wait for the adventures we'll have with her this summer.