6 months.....1/2 a year old! How has it been six months since you have been born? I feel like it was just a couple weeks ago that we were bringing you home from the hospital. My baby girl, please slow down! Shortly after you turned 5 months you celebrated your First Thanksgiving. Next year will be better since you will actually be able to enjoy the food at the table. You are so interested in food and seem to be smacking your lips towards any food we eat. You end up settling with a toy or your hands to suck on in the mean time. New trick you have learned is sucking on your bottom lip. It's so funny to watch that entire bottom lip disappear. Crawling is pretty much mastered at this point for you. This makes dressing you and changing your diapers more of a challenge, and we have learned to work as quickly as possible. We know how much you love to move, so we bought you an early Christmas present: a jumper. You enjoy it even more when you have Daddy and me watching you bounce and cheering you on.
Your personality is starting to show through more and more each day. It seems you will be so considerate and tender hearted towards others. You love other children and when you see other babies and children crying it makes you tear up in sympathy. It's so sad and cute at the same time. Your giggles are starting to come out even more and it is the best sound in the world to your Daddy and me. They are not quite as loud as when Mommy laughs, but give it time. You are so ticklish and will squeal in anticipation when Daddy chases us to tickle you. I am sure that we will share lots of laughs in our future together. Just know that Daddy and I will do anything crazy or silly to see our little girl smile or giggle.
Celebration is in order, we went a long 7 hour stretch sleeping at night! It was quite nice for all of us to catch up on some much needed sleep. Mommy may have woke up once during that time to check on you. Lets hope there are more nights like this in the future.
Right after celebrating Thanksgiving, we have been preparing to celebrate Christmas. To get in the swing of things, lots of Christmas themed music has been playing. You are captivated with the decorations on our tree, but haven't tried grabbing them yet. Daddy and I have been singing Christmas songs all month long and you are still such a fan of music. Two songs that capture your undivided attention include 1: Mickey Mouse Hot Dog song. You love dancing and bouncing to that one and it brings a smile to our face to watch you dance to it (yes this one isn't a Christmas song but you love it) and 2: the Hershey kiss commercial with the Christmas bells. We play it on repeat and you just stare mesmerized.
You have changed so much in half a year's time. It seems your eyes have settled on a pretty hazel color, just like Daddy's! We constantly hear that you look a lot like both Daddy and me, but it seems you are just the perfect mixture of the both of us. To celebrate your half-birthday we had a mini photo shoot (although we have, I am sure, hundreds of pictures of you already) and you ate your first serving of rice cereal! You did pretty well when it came time to eat, other than you wanted to feed yourself. I think you are going to want to be very independent. We all were only slightly messy when it was all finished.
Another doctor check up this month; you weigh exactly 16 pounds and measure 29 inches long. Still wearing size 2 diapers and 6 month clothing fits you perfectly right now. You drink 4.75 ounces of milk every 4 hours and now eating rice cereal! Still no teeth, but we keep thinking they will showing any time.
Happy Half-Birthday Aria! Mommy and Daddy love you!
