6 months = 1/2 a year old!

This little cutie-pie is 6 months old! 

Seriously, time please slow down. How can she be 1/2 a year old!?

Annie did a great job with her 6 month photo shoot. She's typically a sweet, happy, easy-going child!

Sometimes she sleeps like this:

 Sleeping habits right now:

She wakes up between 6:30-7:00 am, takes a nap about 8:30 am, then another around 11:30-12:00, then one more about 3:00 pm, then down for the night around 7:00-7:30 pm. She's been waking up once a night most nights, but we've had 3 nights in a row last weekend where she went anywhere from 7-10 hours without eating, so I know she can do it. 

Naps are lasting from 45 minutes to 2 hours. 

Love, love, love my blue-eyed girl! Her hair is also lighter than Lucy's was, and her complexion is more fair. 

She's started to "talk," saying "da da da," and "ba ba ba" very clearly. 

She can hold her own bottle and I've just introduced a sippy cup with small amounts of water. 

With the cooler weather, we've enjoyed several picnics in the park.

We started solids about 2 weeks ago.

We started with butternut squash, then tried green beans, then sweet potatoes, then carrots and finally applesauce earlier this week. So far, she has liked them all (the girl is putting down 3 to 6 ice cubes of food at a time- NOT at all like her big sister!). So far, I've been able to make all of her food, which I've enjoyed!

We are currently eating solids 3 times a day and nursing every 3 hours. 

Check out her downward-facing dog yoga pose!

She is SO close to crawling! She will get up on all-fours, rock back and forth and literally try to stand up. She can go from lying down to sitting up, as well as rolling both ways. 

She's a pro at sitting up on her own (started doing this consistently at 5.5 months old).

 See! I can sit up!

And I can scootch back-wards and get caught under furniture! 

Some of my favorite moments have been watching Lucy interact with Annie. She will take Annie's lovie and cover it over Annie's face and play peek-a-boo with her- Annie thinks it's hysterical and laughs with this big belly laugh at Lucy. It's precious! 

Annie loves to watch Lucy and interact with her. She loves to look at the books while we all read together. She is now grabbing everything (watch out for your dinner plate if she's sitting on your lap!)- she's also putting EVERYTHING into her mouth!

We go on Wednesday for her 6 month check up- my guess is that she's 15 pounds. 

We've had some sleepless nights around here due to a nagging cold that (I think!) might have turned into another ear infection (this would make ear infection #3!). I took her in a week and a half ago thinking she had another infection, but it was just fluid. 

I foresee an ENT consult and possible tubes in our future.....