Favorite Time of Year

Thanksgiving has passed and we had so much to be thankful for this year.  Nick had to work so my parents came up here and spent it with us and we had a great time.  Now we are in my favorite time of year and I am so excited to have Mady this year to spend it with.  I love everything about Christmas.  The lights, decorations, spending time with friends and family, and reflecting on the whole reason for the season.  This year we are so blessed to have our little girl with us.   I'm a bit behind with her six month stats.  She had her doctor appointment over a week ago.  Better late than never:

Weight: 16 lbs  (50th percentile)
Height: 24.5 inches  (7th percentile, yes she is our short little girl)
Head size: 16.5 cm (20th percentile)

In the last couple of weeks she's really started to get into a great schedule.  I heard it would just happen around six months and thankfully it did.  She usually has two naps during the day and is down around 7:45 at night and sleeps until around 7:30 in the morning.  She is doing really well with her solids now too.  She eats solids twice a day and nurses four times.  Once in the morning which is usually some oatmeal and fruit and then a vegetable for dinner.  We'll move up to three meals soon when it looks like she's ready.  She loves to eat her solids and gets so excited when she sees us coming with the bowl and starts banging her hand against the table!

She's really changed since the last six month post.  She now will lunge forward on all fours and rock back and forth but not moving anywhere quite yet.  She also does a type of army crawl and though she doesn't get very far she is able to get to a toy that she wants that is fairly close.  She gets so frustrated when she can't get there.  She also loves to stand up and hold on to our coffee table.  She would be happy doing that all day and gets mad when I pull her away.  She's getting better and better at pulling up on the table. 

She also has started reaching for us and I have to say it melts my heart everytime she does it.  She especially does it when she's getting tired.  She is such a sweetheart and so much fun.  She loves to be tickled (especially by her daddy) and we can get some really good laughs out of her.  Another one of her favorite past times is sucking on her toes.  Wait until I use this against her when she grows up, haha.  Well, just a couple of more weeks and I'll be writing her seven month post.  Wow....

And for the best part...

So silly!

She looks like she's concentrating hard

Happy Thanksgiving!

First Christmas Tree

Putting her ornament on the tree