I Have a SIX Month Old! (updated)

 Six months… that’s half a year. My baby celebrated her first half birthday on Monday. It is so hard to believe that half of a year ago we were in the hospital. Wow.

Here are here stats from our Dr. visit:

Head: 43.5 cm = 80th percentile

Weight: 17 lbs, 4 ounces = 75th percentile

Length: 27″ = 90th percentile

Apparently breastfed babies surge ahead in the weight department and then slow down around this age because the consistency of my milk has changed while formula stays the same. They all end up in the same place so I guess it doesn’t matter. All I know is that my tall girl is wearing 12 mo clothes!

Speaking of which, this little thing is strong. She beat me up. The other morning while we were nursing she got startled and out of nowhere this little arm came flying up with a little fingernail right into my eye. Yes, INTO my eye. She got a chunk of my eye. Can we say “ouch”? Thank goodness for the Dr who gave me some pain pills, a tetanus shot, antibiotics and some gunk stuff to put in my eye. All of this after she called two other people into the room to look at the gouge in my eyeball. I have apparently made her Top 5. At least I made someone’s Top 5 in something!

So we’ve been trying to introduce food to Miss P. Trying being the operative word here. So far she does not like Oatmeal, Pears, or Apples. I’ve tried both the pears and apples, they’re good!! Why she doesn’t like them I don’t know. We’ll try apples a few more times and then the quest is on to find something my daughter will eat. Did anyone else have trouble with this at six months? It seems all of the babes I know are loving this food thing. Miss P is the only one holding out at this point!

I forgot something very important that the Dr told me. It appears that Praysalyn is losing her blue eyes. I know it’s not that huge of a deal but I almost wanted to cry! My blue eyed babe won’t be blue eyed much longer he said. Sigh, Raymonn’s genes win out again.