6 Months

Lucy had her 6 month check up today. This appt was probably the most she has cried at the doctor. Every other time she has gotten shots she'd cry right when she got them and then be fine. Today she cried all the way to the car and then passed out. What a trooper. Shes a petite little thing. Here are her stats:

Weight: 13.5 lbs (6th percentile)
Height: 24.75 in (17th percentile)
Head 15.5 in (23rd percentile)

Here are some things about Lucys life at 6 months.

Sleeping:
Her sleeping schedule has gotten more structured again after being on vacation. She usually takes a 30-45 minute nap in the morning around 10. Then goes down for a 2 hour hap around 1 or 2. Then a 20-30 minute afternoon nap around 5 or 6 and in bed for the night at 8. She's been consistently waking up once a night around 4 or 5 then back to bed til 7 or 8. We're going to try to start phasing her out of her nightly wake up in the next month.

Loves:

• Bath time. When shes having a rough day I'll just strip her naked and let her play in the bath. Works like a charm.
  
• Carrots. She ate almost a whole container of carrot baby food in one sitting the first time she ever ate it, in addition to her normal serving of rice cereal. She just kept screaming for more. She also loves when I give her a slice of a an apple or a stick of celery to chew on.
  
• Water bottles. I cant drink around her anymore because she just screams until I give her the bottle.
• Being outside or looking out windows. That's another trick for settling her down when shes fussing. Just step outside or since it's cold just hold her in front of the window. Shes also a people watcher so she loves going to the mall of target. She's never once thrown a fit in a store because she's too excited watching everything that's going on.
• Being tickled. She's ticklish pretty much everywhere and boy does she get going when you do it. Nothing better than a babies laugh.
  
• Dad. This girl loves loves loves her dad. As soon as he walks in the door she wants nothing to do with me. I'm totally fine with it though. I think it's adorable because she's got him wrapped around her finger already.
• Her bed time worm mentioned in a previous post.
• Bed time story from dad. Every night Kyle will read/make up a story for her at bed time. She just stares at him smiling the whole time.
  
• Family time. She rarely gets both Kyle and I home with her together and she loves when it happens. She plays with one of us for a little bit then will want to go to the other and play for a little bit and just keeps going back and forth. Mostly with dad though.
• She also loves to make this squealing noise. She does it constantly and you would think she was crying at first turns out she just loves to hear her own voice.
  

Hates:

• Green beans and peas. She still shivers on every bit. It's pretty funny though.
• Being left alone. No matter where she is the house she hates it if she doesn't know where I am or Kyle if he's home. I started putting her up on the counter next to me in the bumbo chair when I do the dishes because she won't play in her room or on her jumper if she can't see me.
• Getting strapped into her car seat. The funny thing is though that she loves going in the car and passes out almost every time. If only she didn't have to get strapped in.
• Pacifiers. She was glued to her binky's for the first 5 months then all of a sudden one day she wanted nothing to do with them. Oh well I guess its better her stopping on her own than trying to make her stop when she's older.
  

As you can see her "Loves" list is a lot longer than her "hates" list. She is a pretty happy girl and we are pretty spoiled with her. I don't know how I lived 21years without her!