Realized today that updates have been a little thin on the ground lately, and that photos only tell part of the story, so I thought I'd fill in the blanks a little.
On Monday we went and had Devyn's 6 month checkup (postponed because we all had a cold). She weighs 14 pounds, 2 ounces, is 26.25 inches long, and has a head circumference of 16.5 inches. This puts her in the 10th percentile for weight, the 58th for height and the 25th for head size. The doctor has little line graphs she shows at each visit, and Devyn is progressing along her graph perfectly, which means, basically, that although she is small, she is growing at exactly the rate they would hope to see.
She got her four regular booster shots and a flu shot. We have to go back next month to get her a second dose of the flu vaccine (and I think mommy and daddy will get one at the same time), but other than that she is done with shots until she's a year old.
I also filled out a questionnaire about her behavior, motor skills, etc., and she was doing everything on the list consistently except putting her feet in her mouth (she grabs them all the time, but I've never seen her try to eat one) and saying syllables like "ba, ga, da," (she'll occasionally get one out, but not consistently).
Put into a sitting position, she can stay up forever—or until she gets tired and cries for someone to help her, or she reaches too far for a toy and falls over. It's her favorite position for playing now, and she routinely sits by herself for 15, 20, even 30 minutes.
This morning, she was playing her newest game, which is to pull out all her toys one by one. I recently bought some fabric boxes to corral toys downstairs, and keep one on her play mat; if I set it on its side, she can be entertained for quite a while, pulling the toys out and playing with them one by one. (In fact, if you put the toys back, she's engaged for even longer!)
No crawling yet, but she is holding herself up on hands and knees now when we put her on her tummy. She doesn't love to be on her tummy right now, though—I think because she is frustrated that she can't move or grab her toys. I don't think it will be long, though.
We aged out of the new moms group we were going to, so now we are going to story time at the library every Tuesday and still walking with the stroller club on Wednesdays and Fridays. She seems to really enjoy story time—mostly she likes watching all the other babies.
She's also eating solid food either once or twice a day (depending on my schedule more than anything else). She eats apples, pears, sweet potatoes, carrots, rice cereal and we just introduced chicken—which she isn't too sure of. She eats about two to three tablespoons of food at a time. And she LOVES drinking water out of her sippy cup. (She will make herself sick if we let her!)
We've been weening her off of her swaddle slowly, mostly at nap times so far. I started by leaving one arm unwrapped. Now, this week, I've just been very loosely draping the blanket around her, for consistency's sake, and she's been sleeping pretty well! The next step will be working on sleeping without it at night.
All in all, she is a joy, and I am loving watching her grow and develop.
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