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!

Chinese New Year

Ever since I gained a sister-in-law from China a few years ago I have been learning a lot about Chinese culture, language, and holidays.  Thus, it caught my eye when a local Children's Museum was hosting a Chinese New Year celebration.  We invited Ping (my SIL) and her family to join us and it was a really fun event!  They had a full schedule of events celebrating the year of the Rabbit.  Everything from chopstick lessons and free chinese food to getting your own name in Chinese calligraphy on a bookmark to a traditional Chinese New Year music and dance show! Sadly I didn't get a ton of pics of the littler cousins but here are some shots we did snag.

Sadie was a Baby Bjorn hero and enjoyed the sights and sounds of all the big kids running around

Ella was SO nervous to walk on this rope bridge (it was 3 stories up) but brave with me in front and Aunt Stacy behind.  She did it!

In every kids museum I'm a sucker for the water play area.  This was no exception-it was so much fun! And this one had raincoats and crocs you could wear and then a full body dryer to use when you were done!

I watched a bunch of kids get this bubble to their knees and then Chris my nephew tries and voila! full body bubble!

I love that Ella sticks her tongue out when she's concentrating :-)

The Chinese Dragon Dance/Show was awesome! 

There were 3 guys underneath making the dragon "dance" and they had to keep switching out, presumably because it looked like an insane workout and they needed a break!

Daddy's gift

Check out the next musician in training...

 

 

 

Mixer guts

This is what happens when your hand mixer (a wedding present from 2001) dies and you have the best husband in the world.  He makes it into a "how things work" lesson for your kid.  LOVE that he thinks to do things that don't cross my mind. Our kids will benefit immensely from his insatiable desire to learn and his steel trap of a brain that allows him to teach everything he's ever learned.  So, before our mixer made it to the trash can it was dismantled, studied, and diagrammed.  Love it.

 

 

Ah the cuteness!

Not much to say, just some recent, cute pics of the girls!