Growing a Little Schulze: 6 months old

Ellie turned 6 months old on January 26th.

She really perfected her army crawl, which she just started at the end of 5 months. This allowed her to make a beeline for any and all electrical cords and tiny choking hazards lurking on the floor. She's trying to figure out crawling. She does this downward dog move that is hilarious. She also figured out sitting this month too. It's hard to pinpoint an exact time frame for that skill. One, because she much preferred to be moving than sitting! And two, because she progressed to be able to sit from a few seconds 10 seconds to 30 seconds to 60 seconds, etc, etc. And at what point do you call it true sitting? But however you define it, she does it now.

And she also started crawling! Sort of. She did a few "crawls" on Valentine's day but then only sporadically here and there until Claire's birthday on the 24th.

Her sleep routine is 2 or 3 naps a day and bed by 7:45. She's fallen into an annoying habit of waking up early in the morning (4,5,6) to play for 20-30 minutes before going back to sleep. And sometimes it's difficult to get her back to sleep. But I know she is not ready to be up for the day at 5!

,She just keeps growing. At her 6 month, 19 day checkup she weighed 15 lbs, 5 oz. and was 26.75 inches long. Still long and lean as far as percentiles go. It's time to move from 3-6/6 month clothing into the 6-9 and 9 month stuff. She's in size 2's for diapers.

We are slowly increasing the variety of foods she gets. She getting both purees and finger foods. New items this month were baby oatmeal, peach puree, mango puree, and zucchini.

Ellie experienced her first snow this month as well as her first ride on a swing. These moments are included in the pictures below.