Six Months

November 26, 2012

Well it's time for another monthly update.

Sierra decided to try her first solid food on Thanksgiving.  We started with brown rice cereal and milk for lunch and she joined in our Thanksgiving feast with sweet potatoes.  It went surprisingly well!  I think she did better than Keira initially did.  I felt like the milk wasn't quite satisfying her anymore.  She hadn't been sleeping through the night in over two weeks, needing to eat.  During feedings she acts like she had never eaten before and was absolutely ravenous!  

But cleary, she has been getting enough to eat.  :-)

Sierra weighed 17 pounds 3 ounces and was 26.5 inches tall.  So she was 69% for weight and 72% for her height. (I was pleasantly surprised.)  And she's as healthy as can be!

Sierra is doing great!  She's still such a happy and content baby girl.  She is such a joy!  She can sit forever now.  She can say "dada".  She loves her family.  But I think she's starting to have a harder time with strangers.  We recently had one of my friends watch her for a couple of hours so we could go on a date and she cried for a long time.  :-(  She loves watching Keira's sillyness.  We have started bathing her in the big bathtub with Keira and that's going well.  She loves baths now.  Keira likes them a lot more now also.  Sierra is already getting better in the bathtub, she's been a little wobbly.

This week I graduated her into her crib, from the bassinet in our room.  I had an especially hard time this time.  I just love having her in there with us.  But I was hoping it would help her sleep through the night, perhaps just because I wouldn't hear her as well.  Of course it went just fine!

Well I think I'll cut it a little short this time since last time's was soooo long.  ;-)  And maybe I can't remember everything and didn't write that much at the time this was supposed to be posted.  ;-)