6 months

Mia had her sixth month checkup today. She did exceptionally well, only cried during the shots and for about a minute afterwards. As you can see in the picture above, she sat up all by herself while Miss Linda weighed her. The official stats are:

Weight: 16.1 lbs-65th percentile

Height: 27 3/8 inches- 93rd percentile! she shot up



She meets all of the current developmental skills milestones, and is almost true crawling. She figured out last week to get up on her knees, she just needs to master actually moving her hands at the same time to avoid scooting backwards. Still just one lone tooth, but I'm in no rush for her to have more. She seems to have inherited our seasonal allergies, no shock there, and we're still fighting to keep the eczema in check. With diligent maintenance it's not been too bad since the johnson's lavendar incident. Unfortunately for Georgie, Mia is infatuated with her, while Georgie does not share that sentiment yet. The other day, Mia had wriggled & rolled from one side of the living room to over where Georgie's bed is, and had thrown her arm over the bed to try and touch her. Georgie just looked at me with pitiful eyes and growled in her direction.


The official sixth month picture:









Compared to her 1 week picture:







She's getting so big!

John Deer Cutie

I found a special outfit for Mia just for Grammie Lois- Look at the Grandma's 'lil John Deer Princess. Isn't the internet wonderful? You can find just about any weird thing you'd like.

Mia's official 5 month picture- sitting up almost completely by herself!

On the Good News/Bad News front- Mia's first tooth has appeared. Or more accurately the corner of her tooth has poked out. Good for her, bad for me. I've starting calling her fang when she's nursing- ouch! Overall, she's handling it fairly well, only required some tylenol last night.

Food

Ok, so at this rate, there will never be a post if i have to start back from the beginning. So we shall just pick up from today and maybe one day we'll get a Amelia Jean Mann:The First Few Months post.

Little Miss Mia is 5 1/2 months. While I'm not certain what she weighs right now, at her 4 month checkup (actually 4 months & 1 week) her official measurements were 14 lbs & 11 ounces, and 25 inches long. She is still in the 75% for both, though so was I at that age and i still stopped at 5'3".

Mia spends the time that I'm at work over at a friend's house with a nanny, Jennifer. Jennifer watches Mia along with Taryn (http://www.joened.net/) who is just about a month older, and Jennifer's 3 yr old son Anthony. She gets to have nice walks, play in a pool, and do lots of arts & crafts projects

A couple of weeks ago we began the exciting journey of "solid" foods. So far the survey is:

Good- applesauce, butternut squash & carrots

Ambivilant-pears, prunes & bananas

We still have jarred peas to try, and i'm picking up some fresh fruits & veggies this weekend to make some homemade food and get more variety. I've been inspired (and made jealous) by the fresh pluots "sauce" that Taryn's mom made, amongst other stuff.

Mia is still sleeping well at nights, rolling around like fiend, and working on sitting up unassisted. The majority of the time, she is a very happy, content baby. She also loves water in all it's forms, especially bathtime & swimming.

13 years from now, she's going to kill me for posting this on the web, heheheh

*On a more serious note, some very good friends are going through stressful time of trying to get their daughter's mysterious spasms diagnosed, so if you could send them any prayers or good vibes for the MRI they have to do next week, they'd greatly appreciate it. You can see the beautiful Natalie over at http://scamehorn.blogspot.com/

Catching up

Amelia is almost 3 months. That's a lot of catchup posts I need to get up. I'll attempt to get it all done by the end of the week. In the meantime- many, many pictures can be found at http://gallery.slipoftime.com/amelia