6 months

 This little girl has been with us half a year now but is cuter then ever!  She is off the charts in growth and character.  We could not be more in love and she could not be a better baby!  (Well, maybe if she took a bottle, but I guess we can't expect a perfect baby!)

I took her to the Dr. and she is my first baby to be over 50th percentile in her height at 6 months.  She is just over 18 lbs (88th percentile), 26 in. tall (55th percentile), and her head is in the 96th percentile.  She is big and so squishy and lovable.

 She loves to babble and Jeff will claim she is saying her first word.  Dadda is often the sound that comes out.  She is controlling her sounds more now and screeching less which is nice.  She still loves to smile and laugh and put anything you put close to her in her mouth.
She has also started rolling over and rolls all directions and tries to push with her legs too.  It won't be long and she will be...never mind, I don't want to think about that!

 We have started some solids.  She has had rice cereal, carrots and beans.  She likes it all, but loves to play with the bib, the spoon and anything else she can reach when we are feeding her.  Feeding time gets messy!

 She sleeps well, but not quite as good as she used to be.  I keep trying to move her bed time up to a 7-7 range rather then a 9-9 range, but if I put her to bed at 7 she wakes up around 10 and then again around 5 or 6 before sleeping until 9.  But if I let her stay up until 9, she almost always sleeps until 8 or 9 with no problems.  I guess she likes to stay up late and enjoys the quiet time after the kids are in bed.

She loves her mommy and recognizes me from other people, but unless she is really hungry, she doesn't usually favor me over other people.  She loves to watch the kids play and loves to look at people's faces and be involved in the action.  She is such a sweet baby who puts up with a lot of abuse love from her siblings! 

We all love our little Bode Babe!