Six Months

Today, Juliet is six months old. Ray and I spent a few minutes this morning thinking about how our day on October 1, 2012, started and how things have changed since then. 

This month has brought lots of fun changes in Juliet:

• She now weighs about 16 pounds.
• She is thisclose to crawling.
• She is growing even more responsive to stimuli and laughs uncontrollably at times.
• She can sit up unsupported for long stretches.
• She rolls around a good bit.
• She loves her toys.
• She enjoys hanging out in her high chair while I cook supper.
• She is happy literally almost all the time.
• She responds to the sound of voices in other rooms.
• She loves remote controls and cell phones and wants to eat them.
• She wants to pretty much eat anything she can get in her mouth.
• She is rocking a mohawk pretty hard.
• She is growing significant amounts of hair that will (hopefully) soon help tame that mohawk.

The sound of my child's laughter is probably the best thing I've ever heard.  And I love watching her jump in surprise and then dissolve into giggles when Ray and I play peek-a-boo with her.

I love her baby mohawk.  It's so funny looking and cute.  But the rest of her hair is starting to really grow in, so when she wakes up from a nap, her hair on the sides of her head is messy.  It's just so stinking cute.  But I realize that it's probably not as precious to everyone else as it is to me.  I've become That Mom.  I feel like I do an okay job, though, at recognizing "growing hair" doesn't really count as an accomplishment and isn't really trophy-worthy.  I know that all the things I'm proud of are just me being a proud mom and not a rational, objective human.  When I lose that ability, someone will need to schedule an intervention.

One development has left me with mixed feelings.  Juliet is really starting to respond to voices in other rooms.  And those voices tend to just be mine and Ray's.  While this is really cool, it's also not cool in that if she is in one room and hears one of us in another, she will fuss.  On more than one occasion, she has been almost settled down after fighting sleep and then hear one of our voices and jerk her head back up.  That is pretty frustrating for sure.  But man, it's good for the ego! Our baby loves us! ;)

 We started solids tonight, and we got some hilarious video and photos.  But that's for another post. In the meantime, two more gratuitous pictures:

Ray says that she's practicing her sky diving arch.

This is what happens when you give Dad the monthly sticker and the camera and say, "Please take her 6 months picture while I make supper."  Not her best look, but it'll be good for when she has boys we need to try to run off.