Ava - 6 Months

November 26, 2014

Ava Girl,

Daddy and I cannot believe you are 6 months old already!!!! How has 1/2 a year already flown by? You continue to bring more and more joy into our lives every single day, living up to your name - Ava Joy :)

Your sixth month was chock full of hitting major milestones. You...

• Cut your first teeth
• Began to sit on your own
• Began scooting like crazy
• Began army crawling
• Started the beginning stage of crawling - on your hands and knees, rocking back and forth

Your GERD, or silent reflux, has vastly improved this month - we are so thankful, and cannot wait until it is entirely gone! And, you've continued to gain weight like a champ! Here are your measurements from your 6-month check-up:

• Length: 27 inches (70th percentile)
• Weight: 18 pounds (95th percentile)
• Head Circumference: 44.5 (90th percentile)

Your personality continues to emerge - you are SUCH a happy girl, full of the most heart-warming crinkle-nose smiles. You love to giggle, and do so every day. And you LOVE to talk and screech! You've also started to love to blow raspberries..it's your new favorite sound.

We started you on solids at 5.5 months, per advice from your GI. You tried butternut squash, sweet potatoes, prunes, and oatmeal. You only like the butternut squash so far :) I have loved making the food from scratch for you. It helps to heal pain I still have being forced to stop breastfeeding you much earlier than I desired.

We can't wait to see all that the next half of your first year of this beautiful life holds.

Here are some of our favorite pictures and videos from your 6th month of this crazy, beautiful life...

You love going for walks...you don't really love your winter hat though (even though this picture would say otherwise!)

Here's the path in our neighborhood that we walk daily...

With UK's (Uncle Kev's) Jingle Bear that he loved when he was a baby!

At mommy & daddy's work for Halloween...

Grandma reading a bedtime story to you...

One your bigger than life smiles...

You LOVE your big girl carseat...

And you LOVE your jumperoo!!!...

 

After your very first feeding of solids (butternut squash from Grandma and Papa's garden)... 

 

With my boss at HP... 

 

This is how we get housework done, mostly vacuuming... 

 

After trying sweet potatoes.... 

 

So close to crawling!!!.... 

Your adorable teeth finally popped through....

This is how I kept you warm when we flew out of Sacramento and it was freezing cold and raining at 6AM...

Blowing raspberries (which we later learned was part of your teething!)...