6 Months - Hailey

1. Our baby girl is already 6 months old - time is flying!

2. She weighs 16 pounds, 15 and a half ounces, and is in the 67th percentile.

3. Hailey is 26 inches and in the 55th percentile. :)

4. Hailey is getting so much more smiley and talkative. I love when she starts talking her gibberish baby language. She's so calm and talks to me like I know what she's saying. :) And she has this really cute shy smile, when she's looking at someone and then turns her head into me with a huge grin on her face - like she's trying to hide it. :)

5. She still doesn't nap or sleep well unless she's being held by me. I've tried a little bit of sleep training and letting her cry it out in small increments. She seems to start getting it and sleeping, but then she'll get sick or something which messes it all up. I've tried nursing her until she's almost asleep and then laying her down, and I've tried swaddling her awake, nursing her, and then laying her down. I've tried it all, but she just loves to be held. And she sleeps right next to me at night still, which I'm good with, I just need her to fall asleep earlier without me so I have a little alone time with daddy. :p

6. Hailey is pretty mobile. She is rolling both ways all over the place. She continues to do her unique back arch move which pushes her towards where she wants to go on her head. :) She's even starting to scoot a tiny bit. It's still kind of a side roll and then forward roll back, but it's a scoot. She's sitting a little on her own, but I just started trying to get her to sit up so she hasn't had a ton of practice. She sits pretty well for a couple seconds though before falling over.

7. She tends to smack us around a bit. She just waves her arm around over and over and hits us playfully. She'll grab at our faces and my hair. Of course everything she grabs into her fingers always goes directly to her mouth, like my hair. :)

8. I started introducing a few foods to her at 5 and a half months. She started with bananas, then apples, then carrots. I think she liked the apples the best. But after getting shots earlier this week and having to take medicine, she doesn't like being fed at all lately. :p

9. She is still very much a momma's girl. She enjoys watching others and smiling from the safety of momma's arms. I hand her off to others occasionally and depending on who it is, she's okay for a little bit, but her eyes goes straight to me and she stares me down like telling me with her eyes that I better come take her before she starts screaming. :p It feels good being loved and I hope that as she grows and leaves my side more and more, she'll continue to want to come back to me. :)

10. She now has spent a sixth of her life stuck at home during a pandemic and only being with our family. She already had a little stranger danger, so I'm wondering if this quarantine time will cause more anxiety when she finally is around others... Seth still smothers her with kisses and hugs and loves to crawl on top of her when she's rolling around on the ground. She handles it okay, but I can tell when she gets tired of him. She does love his attention though. She also loves to smile at Caleb and Everett and Claire. Everett and Claire just smile at her in return. Caleb is getting better. He's either jealous or saying how cute she is. The other day he even said he loved Hailey, so he's definitely getting better. He does need his cuddles from mommy too though, and when I'm busy with Hailey he gets upset, but he's getting upset less and less. :) We love our 6 month baby girl!