Halfway to a year!

Hailey is 6 months old already! She is changing so quickly every day. She has less and less fussy periods and more smiling and happy play times.

Hails attended her first Home County on Saturday. We were there for 5 hours and she did great. When we got there it was feeding time so we went to the nursing tent, and then stayed there to hide out of the rain. Then I put her in her stroller to take a nap, it took a bit for her to fall asleep but once she did she took about a 30 min nap, so not the greatest but good enough for being away from home. Then she played, got passed around to people, kissed a boy and was ready for more food, this time we just hung out in the shade of a tree and listened to the music as she fed. I waited until she got a bit fussy and took it as a sign that she was sick of being there, so we headed home and she had a nice nap on the way home. I love how much she has changed, that would not have been possible a month or 2 ago.

On Sunday we went to a cottage and again she was so great. She had her feet in Lake Huron for the first time, it was chilly! Also she took a nap in one of the bedrooms, I swaddled her up and left, I checked on her a few minutes later and she was out. She took an hour nap and was ready for some more fun.

On Monday (the 19th) Hailey tried rice cereal for the first time. I think she actually ate most of what I put in her mouth, but it was hard to tell, there was a lot dripping down her chin. Her face at first was so funny, it was like she was thinking ugh what is this stuff, what is she trying to do to me, yet she kept opening her mouth for more. I made it pretty runny, so I’m going to gradually start making it thicker and see how she does. We are going to start with it once a day in the morning about 30 min after her morning milk. So far she isn’t really a fan so we might be changing tactics soon (I added banana’s on Thursday and she liked it a bit better). I’m getting excited to let her try food finally. Hailey also still nurses 4 times a day and get a big ole bottle of bmilk before bed.

Hailey is now a sitting up pro! She hardly ever falls back anymore, mostly just does head plants because she sees something she wants in front of her, but it is too far away for her to get it. That’s her new favourite thing, go face first at an object. She also sucks her bottom lip constantly. She looks like a little old lady when she does it, it’s adorable. And drooling, holy drools batman. I guess she takes after me because apparently I was a drooly baby, but wow her shirt is always covered with drool.

Some point form notes:

• She still naps a lot during the day. Probably about 4 naps and normally at least one is 1.5 hours, the rest are about 40-60 min.  She sleeps through the night going to bed at 8pm and wakes up at about 7:30am or 8am
• All I need to do is look at her and smile and she smiles back, it makes me so happy every time she does it.
• She gets VERY excited about things these days, cats are her absolute favourite, she wiggles and gasps in air when they come near, it’s adorable.
• She loves to smile at people, but also still has freak out moments if she has just woke up or is tired and people get in her face, she’s not a fan of that.
• She weighs 17lbs 14oz and didn’t grow in length (but I think they measured her wrong)
• Hailey took her 6 month needles really well, she was so tired after a long wait in the waiting room but only cried for a brief second after them and even smiled for someone in the office after that, what a champ!

So that’s Hailey at 6 months! I’m excited to see what the next 6 months have in store for us. It’s probably time to start baby proofing soon.

I feel like in her photos she looks bigger then she is, here is her compared to a bale. See she is still a little baby!

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