6 months and counting…

Mama’s goal was to get Corinne to the 6 month mark without a drop of formula or other supplementation, and this goal has been reached. Woo Hoo. We have been playing in the evening with some solid foods and cereal to just see how she would do and get her used to spoons and booster seats and such. Towards the end of this month, Corinne has been more and more excited about solid foods and almost attacks it.

One night, Corinne tore through almost an entire banana. I ate half of one and mashed up the other half for her, and she was clearly not finished. So I ate a half of another banana and mashed up another half. She just about polished it off before our walk to Chipotle for dinner. She loved the walk and then got a kick out of looking out of the Chipotle windows at the cars driving by. Her head went back and forth like she was watching a tennis match. (Back to the banana thing…watch out if you are ever holding her and peeling a banana. She will sneeky lean forward, mouth open wide, and all of the sudden become suctioned to the banana sucking and “gumming” it like you wouldn’t believe. It’s hilarious.)

At school, Corinne moved up to the next baby classroom at “school” for the in between sitting and crawling stage babies. She spent time in both classrooms for a week or so to help her transition. She is not quite sitting completely on her own yet like the other babies, but the new room is quieter and a little more calm than the previous one. Four new six week olds arrived to her first classroom making it a little chaotic. Those babies need a lot more attention than Corinne at this point. Miss Erin is her new teacher; she is a really sweet young lady. The babies that are in the new room are the ones Corinne started out with a few months ago. Also, it has windows! She can see outside to the playground where the big kids play. The old classroom has no windows which is great when you’re trying to keep the lights dim for babies to sleep, but not for little girls who are fascinated by everything going on around them like Corinne.

Corinne has been very healthy this month compared to the last. She did have one little bout of fever and cough, but mommy and daddy could handle it this time (although this time daddy was the one who wanted the baby monitor on and the door to Corinne’s room open at night this time around).

After all of that, we decided to work on helping our girl get to sleeping through the night again. Ever since RSV, colds, daycare and growth spurts, Corinne has had trouble sleeping through the night. She is almost there. When she does wake up, she cries for a bit but is starting to go to sleep on her own. And we’ve gone from 3-4 times a night to 2-3 times a night. We feel we are almost there.

She continues to try to roll over and new this month, she can sit for a few seconds at a time without any help. We put pillows or boppy’s all around her so she has a soft landing. But she looks so grown up when she gets it. According to her pediatrician’s office, she is officially 19 pounds and 10 ounces (95th percentile) and 29 inches long (off the charts above 100th percentile). In the words of our pediatrician, she is as big as an 11th month old and a “giant.” We add that she is amazing!

Her new toy this month was an exersaucer. She is hilarious in it talking with her toys and grabbing anything she can get to her mouth.

Corinne got some time with her Uncle David…

We went to San Antonio this month to catch up with friends and family. Gigi got Corinne a much needed chew toy named Sophie.

Cici liked to feed Corinne bananas for a snack. She loved them!

Corinne got some time with Uncle Jeremiah while DD barbequed…

Daddy also got some great pics with his girl…

Corinne and Uncle Stephen hung out and smiled together and showed off their eyebrows and Corinne slobbered all over Uncle Stephen….

No really….look closer.

Cici got some great 6 month pictures of Corinne (the one posted at the top of this post is hers of course). Here are some more.

The winner….