6 months!

Wow how time is flying these days!!  I’ve always heard it goes by faster with the second and man does it ever!  Our sweet little doodlebug turned 6 months on November 19th.  She is growing so, so fast!!  We have had quite an interesting month.  Sweet Charlotte actually came down with RSV a few weeks ago.  I think we’ve paid for a new wing at the pediatrician’s office!  The past two months we have literally been in there once, if not twice a week.  We were doing breathing treatments every 3 hours, which absolutely wore me out.  Of course the medicine was wiring her up so we weren’t getting much sleep either.  It was a LONG few weeks.  She’s doing much better, right now she has a runny nose and is a little congested, but that’s expected with big brother bringing home all of his lovely germs from school!

At her checkup last week she weighed 16.2 lbs and was 28 in long.  I looked back at Bo’s stats at this age and she’s an inch longer than he was!!  He’s very tall for his age, so at this rate I can’t imagine how tall she’ll be!!  Everything looked good. She’s eating well, I’ve been making most all of her food except for her oatmeal.  A friend gave me a Baby Bullet baby food maker and I LOVE it!!!  I use it all the time!  She loves fruit, by far her favorite.  She’s had most all of the fruits and veggies that she can at this point.  The doctor said we can start giving her meat at 7 months, that I will definitely have to figure out how to make for her.  I’ll admit the meats always grossed me out with Bo.  I’ve started giving her a sippy cup with water in it a few times a day, she basically just chews on it.  I think we’ll have a tooth coming through any day now she’s chewing on anything she can get her hands on.  She’s also so close to crawling.  She’s getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth so it’s coming!  You can ask anyone who has been around her she is such a happy baby.  She smiles ALL the time!!  We are so blessed with this little girl!!!

 

Her “1/2 Birthday” cupcake!

I absolutely love her expression here!  I feel that’s going to be her look for him for years to come!