6 Months Old

Weight:  16lbs (50th percentile)

Height:  26" (75th percentile)

Diaper Size:  4

Clothes:  6-9 months

Avery turned 6 months old last Saturday.  This is such a fun age!   Avery loves:

• Bathtime.  She has starting crying when I take her out.  She has bath toys, but she really prefers to play with the shampoo cup.
• Shelby.  She grabs at Shelby anytime she gets close to her.  She's actually caught Shelby's tongue a couple of times with her super strong grip.  Shelby is always such a good sport :)
• Laughing.  It doesn't take much to get this little girl going.  Some nights we will all just sit there laughing and laughing.  So. much. fun!
• Grabbing anything within her reach.  And with her crazy strong grip, she can do some damage.
• Reading books and magazines.  She squeels with delight anytime I pull out a book or magazine.  Since she is grabbing everything, I now really understand the benefits of board books
• Sitting on her mat surrounded by her toys.  We bought her several new toys and she is just having a blast.  This is where we usually spend our evenings.
• Playing with her toy puppy.  We actually bought this when she was pretty young because I had a $10 coupon.  I can't believe how she lights up when she sees or hears it!

• Hanging out with the Pitts Boys.  She LOVES her cousins and I can't blame her - they are pretty cool.  She's gotten to spend quite a bit of time with them while she is staying with Cici and she just can't keep her eyes off them.  You can tell that she is loving getting to hang with the "big boys"

She also has some new skills:

• Sitting up.  She can sit up for a while now.  She will still eventually fall over, but it takes a while.
• Eating solid foods.  She had her first solid foods on Sunday.  She started with Bananas and loved them.  We added avocados this week and she wasn't much of a fan.  Then we discovered today that she loves avocados if she can eat them out of the mesh feeder (such a cool invention!).  I'm not sure what we will try next, but I think she's going to be a good eater

Yummy Bananas!

Loving some avocado in the mesh feeder

• Putting her paci back in her mouth.  This is a big one!  She can grab her paci, turn it the right direction and put it back in the mouth.
• Soothing herself back to sleep.  She has learned how to put her back to sleep which is wonderful now that she is in her crib all the way upstairs.  

Happy Birthday Avery!  Loving the wild hair - she had just woken up.

We did a little mini photo shoot on her birthday.  She wasn't in the best mood since it was almost nap time, but I still got a couple of good ones.  I was sad to realize that some of the pics that I liked had the driveway in the background...oops!