A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE LEE'S....: 6 Months Old

It's so hard to believe that is the title of this post! WOW! I can't believe our girl is already six months old. She is getting so big so quickly. The past few weeks she has had tons of fun! She is always wanting to try new things, experience fun and see the world. She still loves to swing all of the time, so this week we bought her a new to us swingset. We had bought her a little one, but that wasn't doing the trick since she swings on the big swings at the park all of the time. I can't wait to get it all set up. She has also had fun picking strawberries, feeding/watching the ducks at the park, going to Bouncin' Bears and the zoo for the first time. She really is getting to be lots of fun! Other kids always make her smile and I think she is starting to really recognize some of her regular playmates. It's adorable!!

At our six month check up Lainey was 26 inches long and 16 lbs and 10 oz. What a big girl! She is sitting up by herself and has been for almost a month, and is trying to crawl. She scoots backwards and in circles, but can't go forwards yet. She also loves standing up and holding on to things but isn't pulling up by herself yet. Lainey loves music and singing songs and also loves to read. On rainy days we really can read and sing all day long and she loves it. Lainey also has said, "hey" numerous times. Since that is a regular greeting of mine, I really think she is saying "Hi". It's so cute. We are working on waving, but haven't mastered that yet.

She still is not sleeping through the night, although our doctor suggested that I make her at this point. Last night was the first night I made her cry it out in the middle of the night and she did go back to sleep after about 20 minutes. She woke up poopy and it killed me! I couldn't help but wonder if she needed a diaper change when she had cried at 3 am. :( Poor kid. She does need to learn to sleep better though so we are going to try to help her start learning that a middle of the night feeding is not really necessary. We have moved her crib mattress down to the bottom level because she was trying to pull up. She moves so much now that I came in one morning and she had wedged her arm through her bumper and between bars. We have quite the wiggle worm.

Lainey still loves to be held and cuddled, but she is starting to want to sit and play as long as I am near. She still does not love when I walk away. (Another thing we are working on.) We are still breastfeeding and I'm getting sad about the thought of weaning her soon. I know we would like to try to get pregnant again before too long though so it's going to have to happen. She is eating baby food like a champ and has finally started eating her peas. :) I am so thankful for this time that I have with Lainey. I know that while it has never been easy, it is so special and would not trade it for the world. Here are a few of our most recent pictures. Hope you all have a blessed weekend!