Grace- 6 Months!

Wow- I cannot believe that our little Grace is already 6 months old! Six more months, and she will be a year- that is just crazy to believe. This has been a big month for lil missy- lots of growing and changing!

For the most part, Grace is generally a very content and happy little girl. She is pretty chill and likes to watch what is happening around her. However, as I have mentioned before, she does have a fierce little temper! This is her mad about something face!

We have continued to explore new foods- rice cereal never became a big hit, but we tried oatmeal and she seemed to like that a lot!

But chewing on the washcloth is even more fun- and check out that girls rolls! 

She hasn't exactly learned the art of eating neatly. :) 

We also started giving her sweet potatoes and squash. This is the initial sweet potato face- obviously not thrilled, but she really liked it once she got used to the new taste! 

Gracie continues to be an awesome little sleeper! She typically takes 2 naps a day, for several hours each. Then at night she sleeps 12 hours- then occasionally goes back to sleep again after eating! It almost makes me forget all the previous months where sleeping was such a struggle- almost. :)

Her 5 month picture!

All the chewing and slobbering Grace has been doing over the past few weeks definitely amounted to something- her first little teeth appeared in February! The bottom right popped through first, and the bottom left popped through a few days later. She handled them both pretty well! And her little smile looks pretty cute now with two little teeth at the bottom.

Grace is still a little chatterbox in terms of making noise. She learned how to scream this month (lovely), and started making a gasping noise. That freaked me out the first time she did it because it sounded like she was choking! She also started to blow bubbles and spit- which she now does all the time, including while eating food. Nice. :) She does a little fake cough as well.

Her exercise mat continues to be one of her favorite places. Grace has also started to kinda like the jumperoo- she hasn't figured out how to jump in it, but she likes to be standing in there. But more often than not, she gets ticked off at one of the toys on it and can't calm down. :) As I said, she has a temper!

Grace discovered that she now loves to stand! She was never too interested in it before, but all of a sudden, she just decided that she wanted to stand all the time. We'll hope that standing up by herself is still a ways off. :) She also waves her arms up and down now wildly. 

She is thrusting herself all over as well, like when she is sitting in her bumbo or another type of chair. She's definitely gotten to the point where she could just flip herself out. And she is still scootching herself around on the ground, but hasn't discovered how to get up on her hands and knees yet to crawl.

One of our favorite parts of Grace is the sweet smiles she gives us when we come into her room after she has woken up. I caught them on camera one day. :)

Here is where she spied Mommy....

And good morning to you!

Gracie has started to grab at everything as well. If there is something within her reach, she's going for it. Bella obviously doesn't like this development so much as her toys are now open territory. :)

Another new discovery was lil missy's feet! She found them one night when sitting in her bumbo and has enjoyed playing with them ever since.

I think we can now say that Grace is sitting up on her own. She still hasn't quite mastered her balance when she is messing with a toy, but if she is just sitting by herself she does great. But she still likes to plop herself over onto her belly- that's one of her favorite positions!

Gracie looooooves giving kisses and playing with our faces. And I must say, I love getting a nice wet baby kiss from her! Even if she does have a tendency to grab ahold of my hair and pull.

Such a sweet little girl!