6 month picture update!

I've probably said this a few times before but I'm finding myself saying it all the time.. so here you go again!

Kids really do grow fast! Before Maddy was born, everyone told us to enjoy the little moments because they grow so fast.. and it's so true. I didn't think that was the case during her first 3 months but now that 6 months has already gone by and on a weekly basis Maddy is picking up something new, discovering that she can do more, talking or babbling all of the time.. I remind myself each day to enjoy the little things because she'll be a year old before we know it.

Maddy is now in 9 month size clothes. Size 3 diapers (day and night). No teeth as of now but we've been telling ourselves that it's going to be any day now since she was about 4 months old. Her hair is starting to get longer or at least she's not totally bald. She's not crawling but rolling over to get to what she wants. She's sitting up on her own, for the most part.. but does fall over after a while. She's started walking around in a walker that we have at our house and put her in it while Nick and I are getting ready for work. She is now going backwards and forwards and has discovered that she can pull everything off of the lower part of the fridge! (Almost time to baby-proof the house). Speaking of baby-proofing.. we now have caged off our living room. There's a cage around the entertainment center and around our coffee table. The first time Maddy made it to the entertainment center her little tiny hands were in the VCR before we knew it!

Nick and I have also decided that we are going to exclusively breastfeed her until 1 year with some vitamin supplements (A,D,E and Iron). We've heard a lot of opinions of others or have seen the looks... "why?!?" but we've been told by our doctor and have read that breastmilk is best and is all she needs until she is 12 months old. It's going really well. So well that I'm able to still store up to an additional 30 oz. a week. We've heard that if we feed her cereal at night that she'll sleep better but.. she's sleeping from 8 pm until 5-7 am and not waking up during the night.

She had her first sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa Joneses house! She went to sleep fine, which is what I was worried about since I've always nursed her to sleep. She woke up at 1:45, 3:45 and finally at 7 am.. she woke up a very happy baby! Next weekend she's going to spend the night with my mom and dad in Kingston. I'm hoping that goes well.

Enjoy the pictures!

Maddy will be 7 months old on July 7th!

We bought this Fisher Price Jumparoo for $35 off of Craig's List! She LOVES it!! Can't you tell?

She LOVED touching the grass. She would pull it but never tried to put it in her mouth which surprised me.. now-a-days EVERYTHING goes into her mouth.

Playtime with Chester.

We're still working on the sharing part of playing...

So she thinks that mom should share her slurpee!

Maddy was very determined to get some of it.

Bath time!

Nick working from home and Maddy finally giving in to a much needed nap.

This is her Tigger.

She loves his whiskers.

Jumparoo = Happy Maddy

Such a big girl now in her really big BOB.

We switched everything over a few weekends ago. She's now in infant car seats which means that when she's asleep in the car and it's time for us to get out.. we've got to take her out of her seat which wakes her up. She really does enjoy the BOB and all of the walks that we take.

I Whaley love you

That's what her jammies say.

Everything goes into her mouth.

On Saturday, July 2nd Mike and Sue came up to LCP and joined us for Maddy's second time in a pool!! (I had taken her to the Mountlake Terrace public pool on my day off last week and she loved every minute of it!).

All lathered up with Water Babies!

Nick, Maddy and Grandma Sue

YAY!!

Our little water-baby!!