Megan at 6 Months

I was waiting until Megan's 6 month well visit to post her stats and give you the monthly update.  Her appointment was on Friday and this is how she stands.  

Weight - 18 lbs - 80%

Height - 26 1/4 inches - 70%

Head - 17 inches - 75%

Megan really surprised the doctor when she walked into the room and saw Megan sitting on the floor playing with the tissue paper from the exam table.  Especially since not all babies can do that by their 6 month birthday.  We definitely have a healthy baby on our hands and this is what Megan's been up to lately...

In the few weeks after her 5 month birthday Megan really started to sit up well on her own... about 20 minutes at a time in her playpen.  She started to reach for objects with her entire body and with gusto!  Megan also got pretty strong and if you were holding her while she got excited you'd better be holding tight or she's squirm right out of your arms!  She also started to reach her arms out to "come" to people. 

It was just in the beginning of September that Megan started to get physical.  In the 2 weeks before her 6 month birthday (2 1/2+ weeks before this post) Megan started to do her "baby pushups".  She liked to push up with her hands and get on her tiptoes.  It didn't take long until she started moving backwards.  Almost every other day was something new.  First put a knee down when in push-up position.  Then started kicking legs behind her.  Next was being able to go from laying on her tummy to sitting up as well as rocking back & forth on hands & knees.  By just last Friday she was crawling wobbily across the area rug.  While not exactly crawling, Megan knows how to get from point A to point B.  She will do the crawling motions with her arms and sort of drag her legs behind her.  Her lower legs get crossed behind her and don't quite have the coordination yet, but it won't be long!  Along the way are of course lots of starts and stops to sit up and turn around.

Other milestones are: 

• Being able to sit in the shopping cart without the carrier.  Besides, that thing is so hard to lift up there and we don't like carrying her in it if we don't have to.
• Fitting into the 6-9 month clothes.  What good timing with the change of seasons!
• Having another tooth show up - I put my finger in Megan's mouth yesterday and felt something sharp!  It was her middle left tooth on the top!
• Trying formula.  Since I'm starting to wean myself off of the pump it's time to introduce formula to Megan's diet.  She's only had a handful of bottles so far and not sure yet what she thinks of it.  Up until now it's only been mom-juice.  Doing 1/3 formula - 2/3 breastmilk to start.  There's a fair amount of milk in the freezer and hopefully she learns to like the formula soon.  I'm just praying there is no bad reaction to it. 
• First runny nose showed up yesterday.  One advantage of not going to daycare is that Megan has not been sick at all thus far.  This runny nose was passed on from cousin Alexa and it's probably good that Megan get exposed to a little bit of these germs in the long run.

It's probably just a matter of days until Megan gets the hang of crawling and then she'll be into everything!  I know our lives will never be easy again, but it's definitely all worth it.  Having Megan is such a blessing and we are so proud of our little girl and everything she learned in these 6 short months.