This post has been waiting for me to finish for a week or so now, the pictures are also a week late, which means Allie is going to be 6mo. now in only a couple of weeks!!! It is crazy how fast time flies with your second. I remember anxiously awaiting the time for Malia to be old enough to sit-up, roll-over, eat solids, etc., but now I am wishing for Allie to stay at this cute baby stage forever!
Here is our usual doggie picture to compare how much she is growing, so look back at old posts and see what you think! We think she is a chunk, and love pinching her fatty leg rolls.
Allie is like the happiest baby ever! If she is fussy (which seems rare), its usually because she has gas or just isn’t feeling well. It is easy to tell if she needs to eat, have a diaper change, or a nap. Other than that, she is always smiley, super interactive, and LOVES watching her big sister pounce around the house. Allie is at the stage where everything goes into her mouth, even her tasty little feet.
Allie loves tummy time, and loves reaching for anything BUT her toys. She occasionally will roll-over from her tummy to front. While on her back, she can arch her back to look at something, but hasn’t quite mastered the skill of rolling back onto her belly. But… Allie IS really close to being able to sit-up by herself. She can probably sit for more than 15 seconds with out any help, as long as she is not distracted by a fun toy just outside of her reach. As you can see Allie’s hair is now long enough for fun hair bows, courtesy of Santa. And, if you look even more closely, our little Allie’s ears are pierced! Sorry for those of you who disapprove, but it really is so cute!
Allie is still in size 2 diapers (and as been exploding up her back almost daily in her Target-brand diapers, so we switched back to expensive pampers which seem to do the trick), is wearing 6-9mo. clothes, loves her bumbo seat and excersaucer, still likes her swing and vibratee chair for naps, still gets swaddled for her long nap and bedtime, eats 5oz of milk when bottle-fed, uses her soothie binky occasionally to fall asleep when fussy (but if we catch her nap just in time and while happy, she doesn’t like to use her binky at all). Allie sleeps from 8ish to 6am when she gets woken up to eat but then goes back to sleep until 8:30am. I think that is all for now… soon we will start rice cereal and see what she thinks of bananas, applesauce, and all of that fun stuff!
Here are some comparison pictures with Allie on the left, and Malia on the right.
These are fun… in both of these pictures, it is their first trip to the beach at the very same age!
