Autumn is 6 months old! Yipppeeee! And I need to get on. the. ball. With R, O, and W I did their naked-baby-photo-shoot at 6 months. OK, Oscar may have been 7 months old...
She is screaming in her bed right now. She is EXHAUSTED, but will not fall asleep. She takes awesome naps during the day - I just lay her down and off to dream land she goes. Not so much with the night.
Grabbing for everything. Tries to sit up when I'm changing her diaper. Rolls from front to back but not back to front yet. Scoots backwards when she playing on her belly- which she does a lot with few complaints. Yesterday at the park she got to swing for the first time and thought it was the best thing ever. Every time she swung toward me she'd smile and giggle just a bit. She's a little stingy with the giggles - like she's still not sure what's happening to her and it's startling.
OK - time to go get her...
She seems big - I should see if she can be weighed and measured at my own appointment tomorrow. She's wearing 9 month sleepers and there is little room to spare.
I love her heavy cheeks, her sweet sweet breath, her chubby thighs and the rubber bands around her wrists and her knees. Her eyes are beautiful blue and her hair is starting to come in on the back of her head. Wally asked "what is that on Auttie's head?" I said That's her hair!" In the sun you can see just the softest fuzz on the top of her head.
We're still pretty roly-poly trying to sit. Could be the cloth diapers I've started using again. Side note: I have fallen in LOVE with Bum Genius diapers! If those were around in 2004, and they may very well have been, they would have changed my life and saved us a ton of money! I am still using some of the covers and prefolds. Back to my roly-poly baby - her big 'ol diaper butt makes it hard for her to sit. We'll keep practicing!
She fell asleep on Tim's shoulder tonight when I was dropping off Ella and Rowan at dance. Her squishy little mouth and cheeks squashed into Daddy's neck.
One morning last week, I heard Autumn waking up from her nap - but it sounded hopeful that she would go back to sleep. But then I heard a door slam open and realized Wally heard her too and thought it was a great idea that she take a mini-nap! Walking upstairs I see that our bedroom door is open. I tip-toe down the hall to the room and see Wally squatting down next to the pack-n-play. He has his head right next to Autumn's head that she has pressed into the mesh sides. He whispers to her "Uh-oh, here comes our mom!"
Wally Bean - you have taken on your role as big brother better than I could have ever hoped for.
