6 Months

My little Ida is 6 months today. Already half a year old. She weighs 13 pounds 9 oz and is 24 1/2" tall. She is wearing size 3-6 month clothes and size 2 diapers. Unfortunately Ida doesn't do so well with vaccinations. She gets a fever for a couple of days and doesn't sleep well. Fortunate it only lasts a couple days then she's back to being her content self.

This little girl has the longest attention span for her age! She can sit and play with the same toys all day long without getting fussy. She is so content to sit and play with her toys or watch Scott, Jacob or I do stuff around her. I just don't know how she can be so content and so happy. Now I consider Jacob to have been a happy baby but she is happier then Jacob was. She always has a smile on her face. Even when she's upset she has a smile on her face. After receiving her shots this last doctors visit she was smiling at the nurses before they gave her the shots. During the shots she screamed and cried. Then after, when I picked her up, the first thing she did was look right back at those nursing and flashed them another smile. They loved it and said it was very rare that they were ever smiled at right after shots. That's just who she is. She see's a face and she smiles at it. You don't even have to be looking at her for her to smile.

I had started to think Miss Ida wasn't ever going to start moving around. She is just so happy to sit or lay on her back and play with her toys. About a week ago though she decided she would venture out and start rolling. Now, she's had the ability to roll for a couple months now but she's just never had the desire. She will now roll from her back to her stomach either direction and is working on rolling back onto her back. She isn't the biggest fan of being on her stomach but she's getting better as she learns she can move her body. She is very good and pushing herself up with her arms and rotating herself to the right while on her stomach. It doesn't take long before she has ventured off the blanket. Just one of the steps to mobility! She still isn't moving a ton but it is a start. She will only roll over once.. Maybe twice. She is great at sitting though and she picked it up really quick. Now that is all she wants to do! She is also getting pretty good at face planting it when she wants to get down from sitting. Not the  most graceful I've seen...

Ida has starting saying her first consonant: da, da. She loves anything that has to do with her tongue and is very interesting in learning how to click it. When I do it at her I can see her mind and her mouth just working to try to figure out how I'm doing it. I think it's great! She will blow raspberries though and has decided she loves screaming. Not in an angry kind of way. Just in a "I figured out how to make my voice really loud and now I like using it" kind of way... While we are in stores Jacob and Ida like having screaming contests at each other. It gets very loud very quickly. I find it funny. I'm sure others don't think it's as funny. :) She has also started tilting her head to the side when your talking to her sometimes and I think it's super cute. She has discovered splashing in the tub and now spends her bath time doing so and she loves to suck on her fingers and sucks on her middle fingers a lot. It would not surprise me if she decided to be a finger sucker.


Ida is gasy... Always has been. Her digestive system has also seemed to be a little more on the sensitive side than Jacob's was. She struggled with me eating dairy for along time. I just now have started introducing it back into my diet and she seems to be handling it well. We have started Ida on some veggies: peas, sweet potato's and squash which she seems to really like! That is until they hit her digestive system and make her constipated..... To help out with the constipation I have also introduced pears and apple juice. It seems to be helping... Either that or her body is just getting used to eating purees. At first she was the messiest eater of all times. She loved grabbing the bib and sucking on it between each bite which just created a huge mess everywhere! She has now gotten better and for the most part leaves the bib alone. She is also getting better at keeping the food in her mouth instead of accidentally spitting it all out as she tried to work it to the back of her mouth to swallow. I had intended to just start her out with the feeder and do spoons when she a little older but that didn't work out because she decided very quickly she does not like feeder. Apparently this is why you should never make plans with babies. Even this young they have a mind of their own. Feeding babies with spoons is not my favorite thing so I was just hoping for easy, no mess, feedings using the feeder..... She obviously thought differently. Good thing she is cute ;)

Ida's sleeping has finally started improving... That is when we aren't sleeping at home.... When we are sleeping anywhere other than home she will sleep for 7-9 hour stretches. Which is AWESOME! The only problem with that is once we get back home she starts only sleeping 2-4 hour stretches again... :( I wish I knew what it was that made her sleep so much better everywhere other than home. One idea I've had is she just likes sleeping in the same room as me. Gives her some kind of security or something. I've thought about moving her back into our room for a bit just to see if the sleeping improves.... We shall see. Right now she is going to bed between 8 and 9 and usually wakes up between 7 and 8. She wakes up multiple times a night. I will only feed her every 4 hours though. If she wakes up between I make her find her pacifier and go back to sleep. She is taking anywhere from 3 to 5 naps a day every 90 minutes depending on how long her nap is.

And here are a couple of Jacob and Ida cuz they are the cutest together! :)