Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

SIX MONTHS!!!

Sadie is 6 months old!!!  My poor heart can barely take it!  She's so cute and it's going SO fast!  Enjoying every little moment though :-) Here's the current info:

*SIZE: At her 6 month appt Sadie was 15lbs 1.5 oz (27th percentile) and 35th percentile for length.  The Dr. is happy with her growth and she is quite chubby so I have no concerns!

*FOOD: We started food on her 6 month "birthday!"  She seemed clearly interested in food but spit out most of the rice cereal and made horrible faces. After 3 days of trying it my intuition told me it just tasted nasty and she'd eat if it tasted better.  So, I got out some green beans and mixed it in to the cereal and she ate an entire bowl!  So far she's also tried banana, sweet potatoes, avacado, and applesauce. And I have carrots in the magic bullet right now so we'll see how she likes those for lunch!   She still nurses around 8, 12, 4, and 8.

*SLEEP: We're trying to drop Sadie's late night feeding (she goes down between 7 and 8pm and we give her a bottle around 10-11pm and then she sleeps til 7-8am).  Last night was the first attempt and she didn't wake up at all!!  She slept til 7am with no 10pm feed!  Hope this sticks!!  She's napping around 10am and 2pm (give or take 30 min).  She's not super predictable with how long she'll nap.  Some days 45 min, some days 1.5 hrs.  Some days 2+hrs.  She'll get more predictable I'm sure.

*GROWTH: Her 6 month grwoth spurt was crazy!  She went from nursing 4x a day and 1 bottle at night to starting food and wanting to eat 3 full bowls of food a day!  And wanting an extra feeding around 9pm.  Craziness.

*DEVELOPMENT: She's grabbing at everything now and though not mobile, it won't be long til she's scooting around.  She has started to pivot in a circle a little if you lay her on her back on the floor.  -She's still very smiley and unless she's hungry or tired, pretty content :-)
 -still only rolls from front to back
-sits up for a little while at a time but still falls over easily
-puts EVERYTHING in her mouth

*Random Sadie fact: she often makes little circles with her toes, twirling her ankle around.  When she's nursing or just playing with a toy or something.  One foot is almost always going around in little circles-it's so cute!



Ella had fun getting in on Sadie's first feeding!

Noah the Monkey is looking smaller and smaller!

1 comment:

  1. I LOVE that bumbo seat pic!

    Excited for Sadie sleeping through the night and praying that it sticks!

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