6 Months

How can it be that 6 months have already flown by since little Laina joined our family?! It has been a bit of a whirlwind. She is finally sleeping through the night on a pretty regular basis, but she still needs to work on the napping. Twenty minute cat naps here and there do not provide Mommy sufficient time to get much of anything done! Anyone have any suggestions on getting babies to nap? It didn't seem this hard with the other kids, well except for Chase.

Laina weighed in at 18 lbs. 4 oz. and is 27.5" long. She is bigger than Aria was at this age, but still not as big as the rest of the kids were. She has finally learned to roll from her stomach to her back, so now she is doing 360s all over the place. She also rotates herself around on her stomach with her hands and is pushing her self backwards a little bit. I see crawling in the near future! She's tried sitting up and can do it for a little bit, but she usually gets too excited about trying to grab stuff and ends up falling over.

Laina is a drool machine (teeth coming?), loves to spit, and is constantly sticking out her tongue.

She looks like a little puppy dog with her tongue out and her big brown eyes. She loves to squeal and has the cutest laugh. She is obsessed with the tiniest details on her toys. Tags, eyes, strings, ribbons, ... she fixates on them. The funniest thing is when she has a little stuffed animal. She looks at the face, cooing, and then screams as she stuffs it into her mouth. She totally attacks the poor thing.

We started solid foods, the lovely rice cereal, and she is slowly taking to it.

She still hasn't quite gotten down the whole spoon thing, but she is getting better. Mike is excited to use our Blend Tech blender to make baby food. We'll see how that goes.

For the most part these last 6 months have been pure joy. She has a smile that lights up the room and she just makes everyone happy. The not so joyous stuff won't last forever, so I just have to keep telling myself that things will get easier. My creative endeavors are on hold for a bit, but at least I'm getting plenty of reading in!