Halle - 6 months. Working on crawling.
It is no exaggeration, to say that you love the swing. If you haven't had enough you cry when I take you out, so I plunk you right back in.
Halle - 7 months. Making the first motions.
"What's that? You're seven months already!"
"Really? You're babbling and laughing and playing peekaboo? Wow, you're really one of the gang now! Keep on smiling and laughing, girl, you're doing great!"
Halle, Halle. My goodness, I do owe you an update. You are just a great kid. So sweet and lovely and quite an action girl. Yep, life is busy, but it's so fun with you in it. You are very good to us, and what's more, you're mostly interested in Anneka anyway. You get mad if she's having fun in the next room and I'm trying to dress you or change your diaper. You want to be near Anneka most of the time, unless you're tired then you want to nurse, cuddle and then suck your blankie to sleep! I love that, that you suck and gnaw on a fleece blanket to fall asleep. It makes it easy to put you to sleep, and you came up with that all on your own.
When you're happy to see us you squeal and make cat-like noises and wave your arms right in our faces. You do this equally to your dad and I. You've been hanging out with him so much I'd say he's as much in tune with you as I am, and you are pretty attached to him. That's pretty rare for a baby your age. You initiate peek-a-boo games with blankets and face cloths, and think it's just the best thing that you can hold a toy or cloth above your head with both hands. That's pretty good - you must have long arms to get around that baby head. You make "words" that sound a lot like "hi" and "ma" and "da".
You're creeping around the floor and getting on your hands and knees and rocking. Then you lunge forward to your tummy, then do it again, making your way along. You've done a little crawling by moving each hand then moving your knees as one unit. Soon you'll be really mobile, and then you can get into ALL of Anneka's toys and games.
You still do mostly quite well in the sleep department. Of course it's never as good as I'd like it - no sleeping all night long. You still go down quite easily and take long naps: three a day but I think you're moving to two. It makes more sense for you since you usually sleep at least 1.5 hours during a nap. Suddenly you're sleeping in your own bed - the playpen beside our bed. It happened relatively quickly. You started chewing your blanket to sleep in there and then usually sleep for a pretty good stretch 4-8 hours. Then the nursing gets more frequent and you often end up in the bed. When you sleep long, like 6 - 8 hours it almost makes it harder because you don't settle so well again. I find sometimes the only way to get you to re-settle then is to leave you to squirm, fuss, squawk and sometimes full-out cry in the play-pen. Otherwise, it's just nonsense in our bed.
You are ridiculously sweet and cute. Enough said!
Well, not quite. Another thing you love is the bath. Everybody says that about their kid, right? But you really do. You love it. Again, you often cry when taken out. I'd say there were times, probably about 5 months, when you were an outright maniac in the bath. You would splash and kick so hard sending water all over Anneka. She, unlike you, despises getting water in her eyes. She's the first to admit it. She also isn't reluctant in commenting how brave you are as she pores cups full of water over your head. You have to be watched very closely in the bath, because you lunge forward, headfirst into the water.
OK, so no baby can be perfect. You don't like having your diaper changed, or a poopy diaper. No big surprise there. The other day you slept for only 7 or 8 hours in a 24 hour period! Amazing. You were pretty sensitive that day. No surprise there either.
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