Today Aspen turns 6 months old. When she was first born I would see other mom's in the store with their 6 month old and think to myself "Wow, I can't imagine Aspen being that big." Now she is and it's great. Everyone I talk to says the same thing..."this is the best age" and I agree! She's not quite old enough to get into to much trouble, but her personality has really blossomed.
What she has been up to this past month...
* She has her 6 month doctor's appointment next week and we will find out exactly how much she weighs then, but my guess is about 16lbs. She is wearing 6 month and 6-9month clothes mostly because of her length and not necessarily her girth. She is a long and lean little lady.
* You can't keep the girl on her back for more than a few seconds before she rolls right over. She has been able to roll for a while, but just in the past few weeks she has started to do it nonstop. I have even come into her room in the morning or after a nap and found her on her belly. This is funny to me because she hated "tummy time" up til now.
*She has started to really show interest in her toys. This has been more fun for Jason and I because we can actually "play" with her now. She has also started to sit on her own for a short period of time. If she has a toy in front of her she will stay their for a while.
*I've started getting into the habit of reading to her everyday. Usually this goes on toward the end of the night before getting ready for bed.
*She has started to try and figure out how to become more mobile. It's quite entertaining and interesting to watch her on her stomach trying to get a toy that's out of reach. Soon or later she will be on the move and I'll really have my hands full.
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*She eats solids twice a day (breakfast and dinner) and continues to breastfeed for the rest of her meals. My initial goal for myself when it came to breastfeeding was to make it to 6 months...and I did! For me the process has been very easy and I love the bonding time I get with my little girl. My plan is to start bulking up on frozen milk so when the time comes to start weaning her we have reserves.
*She falls asleep every night on her own with minimal complaints. She still wakes up anywhere from 5am to 6am to eat (she goes to bed around 7:15pm to 7:30pm depending on how fast she eats). At least now I can put her back in her crib in the morning and she eventually goes back to sleep without crying--this is nice because I can get a little more sleep.
*If you watched the video on a post I did about a week ago you can see she has started to laugh a lot. We both love to hear her laughing and finding different things humorous. Hopefully she'll have a good sense of humor when she is older.
*Her and Bella have continued to become the best of buds. Really Aspen is just totally intrigued by Bella and Bella likes that Aspen has started to eat food. Bella will sit right next to her high chair waiting patiently for droppings of food. Without fail it happens! We will have to watch Bella and Aspen as she gets older making sure she doesn't feed Bella from the "table".
We are both cherishing these moments and love watching our daughter come into her personality.
**I took about 20 pictures this morning to get a good birthday shot. The first two pictures on this post were the best ones, all the rest look like these two. It's hard to get a photo when you have a wiggly little girl.
3 comments:
She looks like Jason in the very last picture...maybe it's just because she looks like she is contemplating doing something she knows she'll get in trouble for. :)
I love the bow. That's one bad thing about having boys - I won't ever get to put bows in their hair.
She is just too adorable. I watched the video with Jessica sitting on my lap and she just found it too funny watching her Uncle Jason make Aspen laugh. She started laughing. Too cute.
We watched it again and I noticed that Miss Aspen can basically put her foot in her mouth.
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