6 Months Old

Half a year - oh.my.goodness!  For the most part it seems to have flown by... but I'm also trying to slow down and enjoy each step along the way.  I sure love being this little girl's momma.

At 6 Months Old, Kate:

• talks, jabbers and squeals a ton (she loves to squeal VERY loudly as we walk through the grocery store... causing people to wonder what I have in my cart) 
• does a fake cough combined with a fake cry when she wants to be picked up :)  it cracks me up - where in the world did she learn that?
• sleeps 10 hours at night and takes 2-3 short naps
• loves to snuggle with Mommy after she wakes up in the morning
• now goes to the nursery at church - the sweet old ladies adore her
• is sitting up, supported
• is doing great with solid foods - she has rice cereal in the morning and fruit at night. However she's also picked up a new trick... when she's done/full/bored, she "blows raspberries" while there's food in mouth - which makes for a super fun clean up 
• weighs 11.2 lbs and is 25 inches long

AND A HAPPY FALL TO EVERYONE FROM THIS LIL PUMPKIN!

Love, 

The Shaida's

PS - here's some outtakes  :) 

Look what I found nicely stuffed inside the pumpkin... now no longer protecting me from the slime

Excuse me... but why am I sitting in here? 

Ohhh!  I see...I'm supposed to be a pumpkin.  Heehee

I don't get it.