Tuesday, October 12, 2010

6 months old

Charlotte Ruth is 6 months old! Here are her stats:

weight: 16 lbs. 9 oz. (50-75%)
height: 25 inches (10-20%)
Can I keep her at this age forever? Charlotte is SO much fun! She is so happy and loves to smile all of the time. Here are some things about her at this age:
- she can sit on her own! Yay!
- she loves to smile and giggle all the time. The things that usually make her laugh are blowing raspberries, jumping, swinging, and herself. She thinks she is hilarious!
- she loves to sit and play with her soft clothe blocks. We think she likes these so much because she can easily grab them
- started figuring out her toys. For example, she has a toy laptop that has buttons that make noise when you push them. She tries to push them but can't quite get them pushed correctly but keeps trying. However, she figured out it makes noise when it opens and closes. She spent five minutes tonight just opening and closing it over and over again.
- LOVES jumping in her jumparoo. Whenever she is fussy we can put her in the jumparoo and she will immediately become happy again :)
- She loves to swing. We bought an infant swing for our house and she smiles the whole time she swings.
- She can scoot backwards and sideways very well.
- She has been rocking on her hands and knees for about 3 weeks now. She tries to reach for toys in front of her, but just ends up scooting backwards. I predict she will be crawling by the end of October.
- She is teething. She reaches for everything around her and then wants to put it in her mouth. She isn't cutting teeth yet, but definitely teething.
- Loves the outdoors - She loves going for walks around the neighborhood.
- eat oatmeal and just started green beans this week
- takes 8 oz. bottles of formula during the day; still nurses in the morning and evening
- just started putting herself to sleep and sleeping through the night!!! Yay!!!

Here are some recent firsts:
New ducky bathtub
Sits by herself
Tried green beans for the first time and liked them
Can sit like a big girl in the Target cart
This isn't a first, but was too cute not to post!

5 comments:

Winters said...

ShE's precious! I can't help but smile just reading about her :-) such a fun age!!

Alli said...

What a big girl she's getting to be! Sitting up & almost crawling? Seriously, when did she get so grown up? LOVE the last pic!

Varner said...

What a big girl! I love reading about all of the things she is up to.

Katie Thamer said...

Char looks so precious in her duck bath tub! She is getting so big! 6 months? I can't believe it!

The Pruetts said...

Yeah Charlotte! I am so glad things are going so well for all of you. Carly still wakes up for 1 feeding a night, so I am impressed that Charlotte is sleeping through the night completely. We have not tried green beans yet, but we will soon. She sounds like such a great baby.