6 Months

Last Monday, Kelli and I started school. On Tuesday, Charly turned 6 months. One half-year old!

This month Charly has really explored her voice. She's gone from happily yelling to fake coughing to this soft, yet in a way, high-pitched little squeak. She's quite the jabberwocky!

She started eating baby food this month. We started with applesauce (on her Grandma Henning's birthday), and the look on her face was priceless. She was loving her cereal and opening her mouth at the sight of her bowl but the look of disgusted confusion on her face when something other than cereal entered her mouth was hilarious! She's gone on to enjoy oatmeal and pears and she's learned to tolerate apples. She's not the biggest fan of bananas and hates peaches. What can I say, she's her father's girl!

A little less than a month ago we noticed Charly scooting backwards. Soon after, she began sitting up on her own. Her pediatrician was very impressed with how well she sat up on her own for a 6 month old. We tend to think she's somewhat of a prodigy!

She had her first overnights at both Grandma and Grandpa's houses in Allison while we took a weekend away with friends in Chicago. She went on her first mini-vacation to Minnesota and made a new friend named Norman and loved her bathtime in Shawn and Kali's kitchen sink.

She loves to get on all fours and rock back and forth. Sometimes she gets rocking so fiercely, we're sure she's going to take off across the room! Kelli hated going back to school, for many reasons, but also because we knew that crawling was just around the corner and she didn't want to miss it. Well, unless our daycare provider is lying to us (which would be okay in this instance), we didn't miss a thing. The other night while rocking, Charly discovered that moving her knees could move her forward. She was tickled to discover there were more ways to move around the house than backwards! I wouldn't call what she does full-fledged crawling, but it's enough to officially say she has crawled!

She loves watching Elliot and Elliot is getting more and more interested in Charly. We can't wait for the day these two really begin interacting!

Going back to work was hard for both of us, but especially Kelli. She was a blubbery mess. It's not ideal but she does like teaching and seems to like her class this year. I too, think I've been blessed with a good group of kids. That will make it easier. Plus the fact that our daycare provider loves Charly and Charly loves kids! She's easily entertained by kids. She's happy as can be after school and loves spending time with us at night. The only problem is, I don't know how we're going to get any schoolwork done!