Half a year down and lots to say about it! A 6 month birthday blog

Half a year down and lots to say about it!

Stats

You weigh 15.8 pounds (according to our scale at home).  You are definitely longer, but we wont know exactly how long until next week when we go to the doctor.  You are still in the size 2 diapers.  You wear 3-6 month onesies, the 6 month ones are still too big.  You wear lots of leggings (6 months) and leg warmers.  You wear 9 month dresses (you are too tall for the 6 month ones and they look like long shirts on you hehe).  You still wear size 1 shoes.

Firsts

You went to the zoo!  You were not too sure what we were doing there, you looked at the large animals and didn’t understand they were real until you met Zuri (the baby elephant).  You got so excited when she started moving around and you finally got that they were animals and they were alive.  You enjoyed the first zoo trip with cousin Quinn, Aunt Jessi, Uncle Dalan, BFF Ali, McKay and of course Mom and Dad. You had your first formula.   Mom and Dad could not deal with the two hour stretches of sleep any longer, you cried it out for the first time.  Alice you did so well, you cried for 2 minutes then put yourself to sleep.  You have been putting yourself to sleep since with very minimal crying!  After meeting with the doctor it was hypothesized that you have a milk/ soy protein intolerance or sensitivity.  The month of dairy free was helpful but just didn’t cut it.  You went 10 days on a soy/ dairy free formula and you rocked it!  You started sleeping for longer stretches (6 hours) and you didn’t have the tummy aches.  Mom started a soy and dairy free diet.  After the 10 days you started breast feeding again.  After 7 days back on the boob juice it was very clear that you were digressing.  Sleeping less, having tummy aches and a ton more gas.  After much discussion, tears and debating mom and dad decided that you would do better overall with just the formula.  So 1 week before you turned 6 months you became a formula fed baby.  You seemed to deal with the transition without problem, mom was a total wreck for about 3 days.  You are now sleeping 7-8 hours at a time without waking up or needing to be fed!!! You went in your first swimming pool.  You loved hanging in the turtle floaty and kicking in the cool water during the hot summer day.  You were able to go on your first splash pad.  Our friends Hammond and Stacy let you play in the water jets that shoot up in the air and you giggled and smiled the whole time.  You watched your first college football games.  You are helping mom and dad cheer on the University of Utah (Go Utes) and University of Montana (Go Griz).  You are not too interested in the games but you love when we cheer and you help us out with that.   You got your first cold 3 days before you turned 6 months old.  You currently have a very slight fever, a very stuffy/ runny nose and a cough.  You are so sad that you don’t feel good, but are surprisingly still very pleasant, just want to be held all the time. 

Tricks

Alice you are almost crawling, you do this half monkey crawl and or you get into the crawling position, your left side works to crawl and your right side just goes limp.  It is funny and adorable, I will never forget it!  You are sitting up on your own.  You last for a minute or so then get distracted with some toy you want so you flop over and steam roll (still your fastest mode of transportation) to it.  I am not sure if you are getting smarter or lazier but you are dragging toys towards you like mad!  You move towards objects then when they are just within reach you stop moving and grab the toys and pull away.  You are iteracting more with cousin Quinn, you are starting to play with her and toys.  You are a tricky little devil though too, you get Quinn to come in close to play then you reach up and pull her hair.  She lets you and still loves you, but you are getting vicious with those hair pulls.  You still put everything in your mouth but are now rubbing them against your gums to sooth your teething little mouth.

Other Things

You are a social butterfly who would much rather be out in public than at home with just mom and dad.  If you are having a bad day and we take you out, you instantly become happy again.  You are still totally fine with other people holding you and don’t have that stranger danger sense yet.  Alice you laugh and giggle a lot and are jabbering more and more.  You are starting to jabber and sing yourself to sleep, it is so cute!  When you get tired you start to get giddy and have a giggle fest over the most mundane things, and it is awesome.  Alice we are so lucky that you are healthy and happy.  Your personality is coming out more and more and we love you!

Love,

Mom and Dad