Evie- 6 months!

Half way to Evie's first birthday?! How do I slow down and savor each and every moment? They stay little snuggly babies for so short a time. Evie is sooo big! We went to the doctor this week and she is 18 lbs! She is still on breastmilk, but has had cereal and some fruits and veggies a few times.  She is just now starting to really move the food to the back of her mouth rather than pushing it out with her tongue.  She's tried bananas, pears, squash, sweet potatoes, peaches, and avocado. The second time she had pears she ate the whole container, so she has that in common with Sullivan.  The others have been just so so. She wants to drink from my cup all the time.  She's enjoyed chewing on animal crackers- I give her these while I'm trying to eat my own dinner to keep her happy.

Sleep is still terrible! Evie goes down easy as pie, but starts waking up an hour or two later.  Making it worse, I am so tired I've been letting her sleep with me rather than get up all night long.  Other than wanting to nurse several times during the night, she sleeps great with me, but it makes me nervous and I know I don't sleep well with her in the bed. I tried to let her cry it out a bit last night, but Daniel gave in and went and got her.  Had to explain how long we need to wait, don't pick her up, etc.  I guess he's forgotten how this works. No fun though.  She was such a good sleeper, I sure wish we could get back to that!

She still loves her feets and toes and spends a good bit of time in "happy baby" pose and sucking on her toes. She rolls around the floor, but is usually happy on a blanket playing while I cook or what not. She LOVES her johnny jump up in the doorway. Do they make those for bigger kids?? When Evie is tired she rubs her eyes and pulls on her ear and will rub her nose in your shoulder. While she's nursing right before bed she will usually reach up and scratch her head and hair. It's so sweet. She is so happy!

Evie's newest cry sounds a lot like "Mmmooommmm". She typically does this when she's really hungry or at night when she gets a leg stuck in her crib or wants someone to come get her. She is most talkative first thing in the morning as she lays in bed. Lots of "dats, thats, lats" and motor boat sounds this month.

Sullivanism- If you and Daddy died and everyone else died, Evie and I would be stuck here and don't know how to turn on the t.v.

He's loving the bugs these days.  I'm very glad I haven't passed on the "scared of spiders" gene. He now wants to pick up any worm, caterpillar, frog, etc that he finds.  Convenient to have another man in the house to handle these situations for me. :) He's getting better on trying new foods. He usually will only have the one required bite and no more, but occasionally, he'll actually like what he tried. Biggest milestone...he ate a sonic cheeseburger when out to lunch with his sitter.  I didn't believe it when he told me, so I had to confirm with her. He's had a few more since then. Only took 4 1/2 years for my child to like a cheeseburger! I made a chocolate zucchini cake with some garden zucchinis we were given.  He ate about half a piece and hasn't had more.  IT JUST TASTES LIKE CHOCOLATE! How does he know i'm sneaking in veggies?!  Even with is limited diet, he is getting so tall! He grew an inch from May 25 to July 1st!