Sophia is Six Months Old!

Sophia is six months old today, and the last few days have brought with them a several milestones. As mentioned in the previous posts, she tried rice cereal for the first time about six days ago and really likes it. She continues to have some at lunchtime and dinnertime and nurses regularly during the day. When she eats, she sits with just a diaper on because it makes the clean-up A LOT easier. We are working on keeping her hands out of her mouth while she is eating.


** Sophia weighs 14 lbs, 12 oz, which drops her down to the 25th percentile. The doctor assurred me that this is normal as babies start to become MORE active. Now that I have started her on some cereal, it will start to balance things out.

** Sophia has grown 2 more inches in the last two months. She measures 26.5" and this puts her in the 75th percentitle for length.

** Sophia gets a bath before bed each night now, nurses for a little bit and is usually in bed by 8 pm. She typically sleeps until about 7 am.

** Both of her bottom teeth broke through the surface on August 23rd. She has a little teething rash right now and I can tell that her teeth are still bothering her.

** She shows a real interest in drinking from a cup these days (reaching for my glass whenever I am holding her), so I let her try a sippee cup a couple of weeks ago. She did really well with it (it has a soft rubber top, almost like a bottle nipple, but is a definite sippy cup with handles on both sides). She seems a little young to be having that yet, but it is still fun to practice.

** She is still a little wobbly and is not able to sit up on her own yet, but she loves to sit and reach for her toys with some support. I suspect that she will be sitting on her own by next month.

** About a week ago, she started with some new "babbling." She likes the "short a" sound, so we have heard a lot of da-da and ba-ba in our house.

** Sophia loves her jumperoo. Her attention span is about 10 minutes in there (which is long enough for a little babe to be putting most of her weight on the ground at her age). Those 10 minutes are the happiest moments for her. No jumping yet, but she likes to move around in a circle and play with the toys.

** Sam continues to love her little sister. Whenever Sophia is crying because she feels like no one is paying attention to her, I ask Sam to go over and play with her sister. All Sam has to do is get in Sophia's line of vision, and Sophia quiets down and starts smiling immediately. They seem to have some little unspoken language between the two of them, and it melts my heart EVERY TIME.

The next six months are probably going to fly by just as fast as the first did for me. In preparation for that, I've already started planning her birthday party! It seems silly to think about that, but I love planning a party ... Sam's will come first (in November) and we have already chosen the themes!