No updates from 5-7 months and 6 months seems so pivotal! For shame...I have all kinds of mommy guilt for the things that I did for Joaquin that I have not done for her. What a different life stage now with interviewing and being the boss here at work. I think I was just as busy with school and Joaquin, but that business was on the computer and staying a bit longer to post pics or put up a blog post made sense. Now I am out and about and if I finish up 30 minutes early, I'm in the car and heading home.
Rhiannon had a big 2 months. It started off with sitting at 5 months, which we had no idea she could do. As we were scheduling her 6 month photos, the photographer asked if she was sitting and we tried it that weekend. Lo and behold, up and relatively steady! This seems to fit her MO...she is definitely a mover. Starting at 6 months, she's army crawling and 6.5 months crawling backwards. She loves to push herself up to standing and has balanced on the coffee table a few times. It's usually to get something though and she promptly lets go once she's got whatever she would like. Whenever she does something like this she looks around the room at whoever is there and expects a big whopping dollop of praise, for which we are rewarded with a big (and still toothless!) grin.
She also started eating table food just after 5 months. She kept reaching and reaching and 6 months just seemed like such an arbitrary number. Her first food was banana followed by avocado, but her favorite foods by far are pear and orange. This might be because she doesn't really have much interest in eating per se, but more chewing and teething on some chunk of something. I think the pear and orange give her enough of that flavor but are soft enough to dissolve in her mouth. She seems to eat anything though-over the past 2 weeks she's even munched on lettuce and limes.
Her language is back and forth between people, but she prefers roaring, which we all think is hilarious since she is a Leo. She does make babbling noises and has said bye-bye, daddy, and as of yesterday when she is mad at me mo-mo-mo-mo-mo! No intentional language yet, but there are some bizarre coincidences like when we pulled out a library book and she said "I like that book." Craziness.
Still a very happy baby and one that is close to having some teeth, speaking some words, and moving around as she pleases. People ask me if I see big differences in her personality vs Joaquin's for this age and the biggest difference seems to be that this little girl is certain about what she wants. Gotta love that...
No comments:
Post a Comment