June is Six Months!

Can you believe how time flies? I feel like June should just be around three months old right now. She is such a happy, easy baby. Rolling around, eating her toes, babbling, laughing, smiling. As you can see, she loves to grab nearby toys and is squirmy in a cute, roly-poly baby way.

I tried giving her solids two days ago. The first time we tried rice cereal mixed with breast milk. She did not like it. Last night I tried the rice cereal again mixed with formula, but I tasted it before I gave it to her. That stuff is disgusting! I could taste some of the chemicals and it was just nasty. I tried giving it to her and when she refused, I didn't press the issue. Instead, I opened some yummy sweet potatoes. The first taste she look a little confused, smacked her lips, and then smiled. Then she liked grabbing the spoon from me and slurping all over it until the food was gone. She's such a cutie, I can't stand it. I didn't start Willa on solids until seven months, but June has always seemed more interested in food and since she won't take I bottle, I thought it was time to start introducing solids. I'm not going to push quantity since she is getting lots of milk; I just want to slowly get her used to the taste and texture and the act of eating. Such a big girl! Again, I'm shocked that she's big enough for a high chair :(.

Happy sweet potato face!

 Very sad rice cereal face. "What are you doing to me?!"

June's hair is very curly when wet. The other morning I squirted it with some water and put some mousse in. Miss Curly Sue! Not sure if it's a good or bad thing yet.









Trying out the exersaucer. It feels good to finally get out these old toys that I've been hoarding since Willa grew out of them. There is always this impulse to purge what we're not using. I feel a little vindicated for keeping them now.








June is such a good baby. Her main issue is still sleeping through the night, or not sleeping through the night. She is doing pretty well, and has done ten hours a few times, but not often. Right now she usually does between 7-9 hours before waking up. I'm thinking of letting her cry out at the seven hour mark because recently she has been waking up at the same time every night and usually that means that she's waking up out of habit and not out of hunger. I went back and read Willa's six month post. Apparently at this point she was consistently sleeping 11 hours a night and taking three solid naps a day on breast milk alone. I guess what everyone says about each baby and child being exactly the same isn't true. June's wake-ups right now aren't bothering me too much, often I'm still getting 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Still, I'd like for her to be able to stretch it out a little longer if she could. Maybe the solids will help.

Whomever gets June up from a nap or sleeping is the luckiest person because they get the biggest, happiest smiles that you will ever see. One of my favorite things to do is nurse her and watch her upper leg kick around with the feet splayed. Anyone who's ever seen a baby knows what I'm talking about. Those chubby, dimply legs kick and kick and the little toes flex out while she nurses and it's about the sweetest thing ever. My other favorite thing is singing to June. She immediately smiles whenever I start to sing to her, even if she is in the middle of crying. It is just so heart melting.

Tell June to stop growing so fast. She is our big sweetheart and brings so much joy and happiness to our family. She loves to watch Ryan and follows him with her head and a big smile wherever he goes. She also loves to be around Willa (the feeling is not reciprocal), and of course she loves me because I'm the mommy.