Sleeping Hard

Your timing is rough little one.  Your usual 40 minute nap (to the second!) is now at almost an hour and a half and of course we're supposed to be somewhere, well, now.  I'm not waking you yet but will need to soon!  It's just so awesome to see your naps extending.  I stretched the time between waking to nap by a bit this morning and maybe that's a good thing.  It was three hours rather than the customary two.  We'll try this again I believe!  

Six Months Old!

You are six months old!  Such a big girl.  You're sitting up!  You roll and roll and roll!  You try to crawl and you're close but quite yet.  The other morning your dad called me to come down to the living room where he stood staring at you.  You were laying on your tummy on the hardwood floor.  "I set her down over THERE," he said, pointing to a spot on the carpet about six feet away.  Roller!

Here are some other highlights from the last few weeks:

Yesterday while I was rocking you to sleep I thought I'd try the pacifier again.  You tolerated it for awhile before you just started playing with it.  This time though you popped it out of your mouth, turned it around, and aimed it directly at mine.  Ha!  "Here mom.  YOU try this thing.  It sucks!"

A few days ago we were sitting in a neighborhood park with a small community garden.  I thought you were just staring off into space again but I realized you were seriously observing about six small finches flying around a bird feeder before you caught sight of a crow fly across the sky above.  It is so fun to watch you, well, watching.  You're noticing so many more things about your environment these days.

We have a board book called In My Nest that we've been reading off and on since you were born.  Sometimes you just get soooo frustrating because all you want to do is chew on the books.  But you're becoming more interested lately.  This book has a little finger puppet of a bird in a nest.  A hole in each page shows the puppet.  After we finished reading it (and you chewed on the bird for a few seconds) you held the book and turned it over to look at the back where my finger was in the puppet.  Then you looked at the front where the bird is.  Then back again  Front, back, front, back.  You are trying to figure it out!  The wheels are turning!

We love taking you to Volunteer Park!  This time you rode down the slide with dad.  So exciting!  And you were closely watching what all the other kids on the playground were up to.  I think you want to run with the pack!  I'm hoping even if we don't live in this neighborhood when you turn 1, we'll return for a birthday party.  There is an awesome wading pool I think you might just love!