Cherishing the Moments: Celebrating 6 months!

Crazy to think that our little girl is 6 months old.... Celebrating on Christmas Eve! Where has the time gone....?? I was recently just looking back over her new born pictures. That moment that they laid her in my arms, will forever be ingrained in my heart! I mentioned to a friend recently, "You could take a million pictures of your child.... but those first pictures.. when your baby is laid in your arms, those moments... is the most precious gift given.. those are the best pictures! What an Awesome God we have!" There are no words to describe it!

This last month flew by for us... probably due to Christmas. However, each week it was like Addison was accomplishing something new! Very exciting, yet... sad that our baby is growing up!!

Addison had her 6 month apt today! She weighed in at 14 pounds 12 oz (30th percentile) and 27 in. long (85th percentile) We are thinking she might be tall! She had 3 shots at her apt... and surprisingly they went better than expected! She has officially transitioned into 3-6 month clothing.. no longer fitting in to any of her 0-3 month clothing and has also moved into Stage 2 diapers..... I Cant believe how BIG she is getting!!!

So to recap this past month...Addison has:

1. Learned to say DaDa...lol! She repeats it over and over and over... I now tell Stephen on Sat mornings, that she is calling for him.. I don't think he finds it very funny!! (23 wks)
2. Learned to roll completely over from front to back and back to front.... lol.. for a while there she could only roll to the left.. however, she has a couple times rolled now to the right.. so Im thinking she is figuring it out, she just prefers to roll to the left. (24 wks)
3. Reaches for you! Such a sweet thing.... It started off as, just stretching her arms out and you knew she was saying pick me up!! But now, if someone is holding her and she wants to go to someone else, she will reach for you! (25 wks)
4. She is learning to sit up with out support. Now... she will still topple over eventually and she cant get to a sitting position on her own.. however, you can put her down sitting up and she can support herself for quite a while!! She just looks like such a little grown up, sitting there!! (26-27 wks)
5. In Celebration of marking 6 months we started solids!! We had our First Rice Cereal with Apple Juice the day after Christmas!! All I can say is... it was wonderful to feed her the solids and have her love it!! She was a natural at it!! Feeding her a bottle is a serious war! Addison, I would say, does NOT enjoy her bottle!! OH!! She acts like she wants it, but after 2 oz.. she doesn't want anymore and its a pure out fight to get her to eat!! "I have a snacker" and let me just say... I dont believe in SNACKING!!!! Since then we have tried, bananas and Oatmeal...lol.. she definitely likes her Rice over the Oatmeal.. however, she does eat it!! (26 wks)

All in all Addison fills our house with such delight... telling us lots of stories!! She definitely is a talker! Even today at the Pediatricians office the receptionist when I was checking out said..."does your baby always talk this much??" I definitely had to laugh.

We had a wonderful Christmas with my parents and family! such a special time as we Celebrated with Addison for her First Christmas! ( I think she will appreciate it more next year... this year ... she thought all the gifts were to be chewed on..lol) She received an activity Jumperoo from my brother for Christmas.. and loves it!! I feel guilty taking her out of it....Such a delight to see your child squealing with laughter!