Month 6

We started out this month with Lily’s first Easter!  She had a great time dressing up in an adorable dress her Grammie got her.  It is purple with a cute little sweater!  She got to join the Easter Egg Hunt with the older kids.  She even found 5 Easter Eggs, one of which she picked up on her own.  Daddy held her over it and she was able to pick it right up and put it in her basket.  She also enjoyed getting to see all of her family.

We are still waiting for that tooth to come in.  She continues to put anything in her mouth, luckily she mostly goes for things that are in your hands, so you have some control over what she gets.

  

Lily has a little fissure in her bum bum.  This caused her to have a few diapers with blood in them.  They caused great stress for her Mom, but didn’t seem to bother Lily.  Her doctor was also not concerned, but was not opposed to seeing Lily.  (Her doctor loves her, as do all of the nurses). 

        Mommy got her last break until school is out.  Lily and Mommy had a great time together.  Of course it was hard for Mommy to drop her back off to get babysat when she had to go back to work.

        During this break we went down to Colorado Springs and visited Amy and Kyle.  We had a great time visiting, and ended our visit with a trip to the Garden of the Gods.  We got some great pictures.

New Developments in Lily:

        She is mobile now! She uses rolling to get herself around to wherever she needs to go.  This means we can no longer just leave her lying in her jungle while we go get stuff done.  She needs constant supervision, and we thought we got nothing done before!

        Lily has also started hanging out in her bouncy chair.  It’s a wonderful invention, you hang it in the door, put some toys on it, plop her in and it is fun for hours… or at least 30 minutes!  She is not really bouncing yet, but she will hang out and spin herself around.

        We are getting to the end of the time where I can plop her on the couch next to me for a little naked time before her bath.  She used to just lay there so peaceful and coo up at me.  She has gotten much more rolly and spinny lately, so is happier on the ground where she has more room to spread out.  Sometimes I can still talk her into staying next to me if I let her sit during naked time.

         The most exciting thing this month is Lily is starting solids!!  They told us to wait until she was six months old, but we cheated by about a week.  We just couldn’t wait any longer, and neither could Lily.  We started her with a little rice cereal mixed with breast milk.  It is not really a new taste so it went over well!  She is so happy to be eating “big people” food with us.  She loves sitting in the high chair during dinner and eating with her brightly colored bowls and spoons.