Our sweet little girl is already 6 months old. It is so hard to believe it has been half a year already. She continues to bring joy and smiles to our family. Our friend Jessi once again took her 6 month pictures. Landon tagged along with us which was perfect as he was able to help get her to smile. She continues to adore her big brother.
Grandma Phillips picked out this outfit.
Landon picked out this one!
And Daddy picked out this one!
With the second child you find yourself a little behind on schedule and going with the flow is typical. We pretty much skipped the rice cereal stage and jumped straight the baby food stage at 6 months. Avery of course made the typical sour face but has seemed to enjoy her food so far. Between daycare and myself we have done squash, sweet potatoes, peaches, bananas and apples. There is no particular order we are going in; we just feed her whatever. There hasn't been anything yet that she doesn't like.
--Of course for her 6 month pictures she was a little wobbly when it came to sitting up; however, she has been doing pretty good lately. Still a little top heavy but she's getting stronger.
--She is also rolling from back to tummy and tummy to back.
--She loves playing with her toys and is really starting to grab and chew on various objects.
--Avery is also very alert. At daycare she does not nap unless all the other kids are napping; she doesn't want to miss out on the action.
--When Landon was this age he was our little owl (He would "who, who, who") Avery is our little lion as she roars. I need to try to get it on video.
--She is also a jabber box and has high pitched little squeals.
--Still not sleeping through the night. :( She was only waking up around 3:30; however, now we are finding that she is waking up twice again.
We went to the doctor at the end of April for her 6 month appointment and Dr. Steinke said she looked great! I was really worried about this appointment because of her head. At 6 months Landon got his helmet and at our 3 month appointment with Avery, Dr. Steinke made a comment about Avery's head being a little flat. Of course we were more educated this time around and I didn't know how she could have a flat head when she is constantly being held and slept on her belly the entire first 3 months. I told Kurtis that I think we just have babies with flat heads. Dr. Steinke said that there are just kids who are born with softer heads than others.
At this appointment she spent a lot of time looking at Avery's head. She said it looks symmetrical and her ears and eyes are in line; however, one side is more prominent then the other on top above her ears. :( With her crazy hair it is something that is harder to notice. I was waiting for the referral; however, she said that we have a little more time left to make a decision so she asked us to come back in 6 weeks to check the growth. We'll pray that we don't have to go through the helmet stage again.
Other than an odd shaped head we have a healthy and beautiful little girl.
26 1/2 inches (75th percentile)
16 lbs. 6 1/2 oz. (50th percentile)
Head- 17 inches
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