Six month photos...six month photos! I'll be honest, these were some of our most difficult and fought for photos yet. The initial plan was to roll in our family holiday photos with the six month milestone shoot. Oh boy! Outside photos in October are certainly a bit like rolling the dice. The days surrounding our shoot were manageable temperatures, but on the actual day, the temps dipped below freezing, and it decided to flurry. This made pretty much everyone...T included...a bear to work with in terms of capturing any sort of decent photos of our entire family or of the kiddos individually. We literally got just ONE photo of our family all together from the day (after a great deal of melting down and bribing - AND still had to have our photographer edit out a bag of popcorn that G was not about to let go of!) In the end, we ended up rescheduling and doing in-studio photos of just Scarlett after the epic fail of our outdoor shoot. Our photographer somehow managed to scrap something together for our annual family picture, and I am forever grateful to have this moment captured and look back at the complete disaster and smile.

And I'll leave you with this gem...what it's really like to do family photos with little people in cold weather!

Photo Credit | Studio1328

Scarlett: Six Months

Six months! Wow how time has flown by. It's really incredible to think that just six short months ago, we were patiently awaiting the arrival of our little S. She continues to be just about the best little girlfriend ever, and she is the perfect little sidekick to all of her brother's shenanigans.

THE STATS:

Age: 6 months

Diaper size: 2

Clothing: 3-6 months

DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITY:

S is rolling all over the place, and loves to be on her tummy, head popped up, looking around. She has the best giggles, and loves to play peek-a-boo or any game really that offers lots of interaction. She can sit...very briefly...on her own, but has yet to figure out how to push into the position unassisted, or pull up on any sort of furniture. I got out our activity cube this month, and she loves to stand by it and look at all of the beads and fun things on top, but she hasn't really worked too much yet on figuring out how to pull up. She enjoys being in the walker, and has figured out how to go both forward and backwards.

SCHEDULE:
S's schedule remains pretty unchanged from last month. She wakes up about 7:30am, naps for about 30 minutes at 10am, naps again about 1:30/2pm for a couple hours, and is ready for bed about 6:30pm. NOTE: I did not say is 'in' bed at 6:30, but she is generally in meltdown mode and wanting jammies and a bottle about then. If I am not in the middle of cooking dinner or helping with the boys, and can nurse/give her a bedtime bottle, she is perfectly content to go to bed at 7pm and will sleep through until morning. Little angel.

FAVORITE TOY:

S's favorite toy by far is the jumparoo. She LOVES to bounce, and is content to hang their for at least an hour. Maybe because she is upright and has a better (a.k.a. safer) view of things with her two wild and crazy brothers running races or practicing their tackling moves.

STORYTIME:

S is a little tagalong for story time, and usually just listens to whatever story her brothers pick out. We are usually either crammed on the couch as a family at bedtime, or I have all three kiddos piled on my lap in the rocking chair at nap time. It certainly makes for a 'cozy' storytime!

CUISINE:

S is still primarily on a milk-based diet, and nurses for most of her nourishment with the addition of a bedtime bottle of formula. She did get to have oatmeal this month, but she pretty much hates it, and after backing off and re-trying several times, she only barely tolerates it with a dash of cinnamon. At her 6mo checkup, her doc said that sometimes baby's who don't like oatmeal end up really liking 'real' food, so we'll see what she thinks now that she has passed the six month milestone and can start having some fruits and veggies. In the last week of her five month old self, she did start becoming less interested/acted like she was never content after straight nursing, so she is now up to two bottles of formula a day, and nurses about three times in addition to the forced oatmeal. My goal with nursing was to make it to six months when she can start increasing her intake of solid food, so I'm content to back off nursing as long as she is happy and content.

SIX MONTH FAVORITES

Looking in the mirror
Big brothers
Dad
Flirting
Bouncing

SIX MONTH LEAST FAVORITES

Baby food

OH THE MEMORIES:

So many memories this month! Clay County Fair (more to come), the beginning of Hawkeye football season with the cutest little cheerleader around, the end of summer temps, and beginning of fall weather, family snuggles, soccer games, trying food - and not loving it!, boat rides, cousin time, weddings...you name it...we probably crammed it into this month!

I just can't resist a good sleeping baby picture of this little sweetheart!