Happy Half Birthday to our sweet Quinn!
Quinn had her first bites of solid food on January 21st.
She is also starting to learn how to sit up!
At six months old, Quinn is sleeping through the night consistently. She goes to bed around 7:15-7:30pm and wakes up in the morning between 7-7:30am. We dropped the dream feed the day she turned 6 months old. During the day, her desire to nap has become more predictable. She is typically tired around 9:15am, 12:30pm, and 3:30pm. Poor girl usually takes her morning nap in her carseat. She falls asleep while we are driving the kids to school. She'd love to take a nice, long snooze in the morning, but it usually ends up being about 30 minutes because we are typically out running errands or heading to the RAC. Her afternoon nap has been lasting about an hour to two hours, and she is almost always in in her crib for that one. She likes to try to sneak a cat nap in sometime in the late afternoon as well, but I have been trying to not let her take that one so she sleeps better at night. If we end up driving somewhere around 4 or 5pm she will likely get a quick nap in while we are driving, but wakes up as soon as we get where we are going. She eats every 3-4 hours, and is exclusively breastfeeding, and eating a few solid foods. Right now, I just give her food at dinner time because of convenience, but soon I plan on giving her food in the morning as well. She has eaten oatmeal cereal, peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, and applesauce. I have also given her teeny, tiny pieces of bread. :) She had her 6 month appointment on February 14th, and finally got her first (of two) flu shot! She weighed 15 pounds, 11 ounces and was 26 inches long! She dropped to the 40th percentile for weight, which the pediatrician wasn't too thrilled about, but she looks healthy so we'll see how she does at her next appointment. She was about the 50th percentile for height. Quinn is still wearing 3-6 month clothing with some 9 month onesies thrown in, size 3 diapers, and size 1 shoes.
Here are some of her milestones and accomplishments from the past month: Quinn can now roll over well from back to front, AND from front to back. She has a third bottom tooth that came through on Feb. 17th. I'm sure more teeth are on their way...She's been drooling quite a bit recently. She sits in the bumbo to eat, and loves ALL attention. She is working on her pincer grasp, can hold two objects in two different hands at the same time, and is enthralled by zippers and buttons. She likes to practice sitting up, but will face plant after a minute or so. She is starting to push up to her hands and knees and army crawl a little bit. I think it's time to baby proof! She is such a sweet, sweet girl. She almost always talks before she cries, as if to say, "I'm getting sad, please come and get me." She rewards us with lots of smiles and giggles, especially first thing in the morning! And my favorite thing of all, when she is hungry she makes a sucking sound to let me know it's time to eat!
We love our Quinnie Button more than words can say. What a perfect addition she has been to our family!
