A 6 month old update!

6 months, 6 months, 6 months!!!



Half a year already! Say what?!

Time is flying by!

This month has definitely seen the most changes! and actually I'm not sure this mommy can quite handle just how many things are changing and how fast Addison Mae is growing up! 

In just the 1st week alone there was...

Her two first teeth! That we can't actually take a photo out because her tongue is always poking out, blocking the view of the teeth!! She has really struggled cutting these two, but I'm hopeful now they're here we will get a break from teething for a short while!

She rolled over for the first time! and then rolled back straight away, and then rolled over about 10 more times! and likes to do it at every opportunity now.  Can you tell big sis was a bit excited about it?!



She is also getting much stronger at sitting semi independently...and I feel like sitting up by herself will be right around the corner too!

She has switched from the bassinet part of her pram to her sitting up 'big girl' part!

She moved out of her Moses basket into her big girl cot (this was her last ever sleep in her basket - remember how up until just last month I had to roll up a blanket to stuff next to her and here she was completely filling it!)

She started off just having her daytime naps in the cot...

and now sleeps at night there too!

So she moved out of our room and into her own room!! It hasn't been the smoothest of transitions.

 Most people are all like 'yeah once we moved our baby into their own room they slept so much better as we weren't disturbing them anymore' - we have found the opposite! These past few weeks have been her worst sleep yet with one night where she woke up 8 different times! (she never even did that as a newborn!) I'm hopeful teething has some of that to answer for and it's not just an aversion to her cot!

She had her first taste of food! Mashed banana, just like Ella tried for her first food too...and she loved it! She was really going for it, gobbling it up! she spit a little bit out but mostly she seemed very keen which was surprising for the first try!

At the end of last month, we had Halloween - and Addi dressed up as a little pumpkin along with her zombie bride big sis.

We headed out trick and treating around our neighbourhood - sometime after 6pm, on a day when Addison hadn't had an afternoon nap!

She was wrapped up all snug in the sling, and I was convinced she was going to fall asleep...but she stayed awake the whole time!

I guess it was just all too exciting and she was enjoying being in on all the action too much!

She also went to her first halloween party!

and aren't these babies just the cutest little pumpkins in the patch! Lana, Cohen & Addi - her little buddies from toddler group.

We also took her to her first Fireworks display - not really knowing what to expect.  I anticipated some crying or uncertainty but there were no tears at all!



Addi just seemed mesmerised by all the lights and colours, and again stayed awake for the whole display despite it being late...and then did fall asleep just as we were leaving the showground.

She decided, hallelujah, that she doesn't hate the sling anymore! So we have been able to do plenty of forest walks this month now that we're not confined to the pram!

This little pair of sisters are still the cutest around,

 and I just can't get enough of how much they love each other! 

Addi really does light up when she sees Ella for the first time at the end of the school day when we go to pick her up, or first thing in the morning when she wakes.  

Also, at night sometimes when I am feeding her in her room - Ella is in the bedroom next door and will call something through to me and Addi seems to think she's talking to her and she'll coo back and they do this cute back and forth chatter like a little conversation! 

It makes me excited for the day when I can imagine they will really be chit chatting back and forth at bedtime! (and then we'll probably be cursing it, and wishing they would just go to sleep already! but right now it seems like a cute thought!)

This pic sums up her feelings on sisterhood well!

and always with the kisses! 

Addison's hair is still growing like a maniac, and we often get stopped in shops and when out and about with people commenting about just how much hair she has!

She still sucks her fingers 80% of the day! It used to be her two middle fingers but in the past few weeks it's progressed to the end two (beside her thumb) which funnily enough is the two fingers Auntie Mel was attached to all through her childhood so maybe it's in her genes!

She is still a big fan of the Jumperoo, and she is very enthusiastic with her bouncing these days! Her other favourite things to play with seems to be plastic spoons at the moment, and when I say play I mean she stuffs them into her mouth as far as they will go! (sometimes gagging on them even!) and then once she's tired of one spoon she'll throw it down and I'll hand her a different size or shape new plastic spoon and away she goes again! I'm pretty sure you could sit her somewhere for an hour with a lap full of spoons and she'd be more than happy! who needs fancy Christmas presents hey?!

She brings so much joy to our family with her sweet little personality.  It is starting to shine through more and more.  The things that make her giggle the most are - big sister, obvs! (especially watching her crazy dancing) being thrown high in the air (by Daddy of course!) king of the castle nursery rhyme and 'this is the way the lady rides', when you shout her name really fast and loud repeatedly (for some strange reason! Auntie Alli discovered this in the car one day and it still produces giggles every time!) and she has finally developed two little tickle spots just under her ribs - aside from the bit of her neck where Daddy blows raspberries on.

She really is the happiest baby.  She is finally back into a pretty good nap routine now - usually an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon.  Unfortunately both of those naps co-incide with Ella's school run which is the bain of my life!!! If I had a £1 for every time Addi has fallen asleep in the car 2 mins after we leave the house I'd be a very rich person! 

I can't believe we're at 6 months! So very excited for what the next 6 will bring!

A 6 Month Old Update - Half a Year Already!!

 

Ella Bella Boo....you turned 6 months old on Friday!! I can't believe my ears (in fact I feel like I need to rip them off Ted Danson style in 3 Men and a Little Lady!!)

How did my teeny tiny baby go from this...

   to this in a blink of an eye?

I have been looking forward to 6 months for SOO long...

thinking of all the fun things we could do...and that you were going to be able to start eating which Mommy was very excited about! and you...you have been gazing longingly at every mouthful of food we have eaten for weeks now! 

but now it's here I want to put the brakes on! I am painfully aware that after 6 months the months will whizz by faster than ever before and suddenly a whole year will have gone by and I can't handle that fact right now!!

So let's be happy in our ignorance and pretend you're going to stay 6 months forever because oh, it's such a fun age!

Look at those long legs - where did they spring from?! You were still in 0-3 months clothes a week or two ago and now all of a sudden 6-9 month leggings are looking a bit short!

Everything is fun to you...and you are just amazed at everything around you! You are so aware and so intrigued by the things you see - and you just love to grab things! She only really started grasping things properly at the start of the month and it's amazing how quickly her hand eye co-ordination is picking up!  The face above is her anticipating bubbles face...she does love her bubbles!

 and she concentrates very hard on where they all disappear too! She also likes it if I catch them back on the wand and bring them over to her so she can pop them! and she likes to try and chew on the wand too...but then there's nothing she doesn't try and chew on these days!

 I got that cute little bunny playnest, free, off of a local baby group and it's been amazing! In sitting up position, it helps support her and encourages her to sit by herself...which she can do for about 10-15 seconds on her own before she topples...so we're not quite there independently yet, but we're on the way! You can also convert it to a full ring that she can sit in and play with her toys in!

 Her stacking cups are definitely her toy of the moment! There is no end to the number of times you can stack them up for her and she will knock them down! It never loses its excitement to Ella!

 She started off at the beginning of the month just knocking them down with her feet, but now she can rather forcefully give them a good whack with her hands!

So onto the firsts for this month...there were several, just not the sitting up or rolling over like we thought may occur! Although on Thursday we did get a roll over in the bath! just still working on the solid ground roll!

She went on her first swing! and although she was a little unsteady and was probably still a bit small for it, she loved it all the same! as evidenced by that gorgeous smile...

and this cute video!



She went to a mini zoo at Calderglen Country Park...



and also experienced some of the first summer sunshine Scotland had to offer!

 

She went to the cinema for the first time! it was a special baby screening...and it was a nice snazzy cinema with sofas in on Ashton Lane - my fave little place in Glasgow!

and she had a great time with her little pal Hamish!

 She attended her first ever sporting events! and with that came her first train ride, which she seemed to enjoy! 

So she spent one night at the Diamond league athletics - she even managed to nap through the starting gun for the races, the fireworks and the flames when people won and all the cheering...but woke up when someone beside us sneezed!

She also attended some commonwealth games events like the hockey, helping Mommy and Daddy cheer on South Africa when they played NZ...can you tell she was loving being up past her bed time?!

and she loved the gymnastics! There was so much for her to look at!

I think she thought all the cheering was for her!

She ate at her first Mexican restaurant...and it certainly won't be the last with a Mommy like me!

She went to her first birthday party for her cousin Ellis! 

 

It was a pirate fest...and are these not the cutest little pirates around?

She went down her first slide! with the help of Uncle Arne guiding her down! Look at her little excited face!

of course daredevil Ellis just dove down it head first without a care in the world!

 and she went to her first wedding of my uni friend Lucy! and had a ball! 

She loved all the attention from my friends!

and got thoroughly spoilt! with an amazing goodie bag of toys and bubbles which kept her entertained through the whole of the reception!

 and even her highchair got it's own fancy bow! Her first time in a highchair too!

 

 In the past week or two, she has got seriously into labels! She searches for the label on every toy she plays with! or even in her pram - I'm thinking of just cutting out loads of labels and sewing them together and letting her go to town on them!

 and when she's not trying to eat labels, she's trying to eat her feet! Nothing makes her happier!

A few days before we left Scotland she started doing this little shaking from side to side thing...we call it her jig! She now does it on demand and her granny and grandad and aunties think it's the best thing ever, they clap and cheer for her and so she does it over and over!



and on to the weaning!!

 Look at this excited face! If she could talk I'm sure she would have told me that she'd been longing to try some food!

She seemed pretty happy with her bib!

and she even insisted on helping grab the spoon and steer it to her mouth!

I gave her the spoon to see what she would do with it and she had the right idea about putting it to her face, just not which way up it was meant to go!

 Check out that banana face! She was loving it, some spoonfuls more than others as this video shows...


Every day with you just gets better and better, Ella! You complete our family with your happy little excitable personality!