6 Month Update

It is hard to believe that Jillian is already 6 months old! Time has sure flown by! We took Jillian's 6 month pictures a couple of weeks ago before I went back to work. She did great and it was difficult to pick out which pictures to order because she looked so cute in all of them. Here are the ones we selected.

We had Jillian's 6 month check up this week and the doctor says she is doing great! Jillian weighed 17 pounds, 12 ounces and was 27 inches long. The doctor said we should start her on more solids so we will be moving up to 3 meals per day. She really loves every food we put in her mouth even those nasty green peas that her mommy and daddy will not eat. She also has 2 teeth already. The first came through at exactly 6 months and the 2nd one a few days later. The doctor said she would like her to be "talking" more but I just think that is because Jillian doesn't talk when she is at the doctor - she talks plenty when she is at home.

We have been adjusting to getting back into a routine around here with school starting. Jillian is doing well and daycare and Mommy is doing well now. The first day was really bad. Right now she is still not coming to school with me as planned because the portable buildings were not ready in time for them to get the daycare set up. She has been going to a school that is a few miles away from my office, which isn't too bad but makes for an extra trip in the mornings and afternoons. We were told on Friday that they are hoping to have us moved in some time next week so we will keep our fingers crossed.

Jillian is definately a busy body! She is into everything now and it is very fun to watch her learning new things. She now does not like it if you give her a few toys out of her basket to play with. She wants the whole basket! She tips it over and pulls all of the toys out one by one and tosses them to the side after playing with them for a few minutes. She ends up being surrounded by her toys.

She also likes to play on the floor and crawl over and stand up by Mommy and Daddy. We have resorted to moving the coffee table out of the room because it gives her more room and we don't have to worry about her hitting her head. We also like it because we like laying on the floor.

Did I mention she is into everything! Here are a few examples...

Jillian is also now officially crawling - the real way! We have been trying to get a good video but this is the best I could do. This one also shows how she tries to stand up while she is crawling. Oh, yeah, she attacks the camera in this video so look out for very close up Jillian!

She is starting to get into some trouble - just while I was working on this she crawled over to the cat bowls, which are supposed to have that gate covering them so she (and Bandit) do not eat the food. She pulled the gate down on top of herself and then was trying to crawl away but the gate was stuck on her foot as evidence.