A Stella-bean Update...

This blog is our life book...our family journal...my only written memories of my babies (baby books are hit and miss around here...and they don't capture the feeling of the moment anyways). So it looks like I need to post an update of my baby Stella bean!

Stella will be 7 months old next week! So big...yet so little. :) She really is so little. My petite lil princess. At her 6 month well visit, she weighed in at 15 lbs 4 oz...putting her in the whopping 25th percentile and her length was 27 & 1/4, putting her between the 50-75th percentile. Long little string bean!

Rewinding a little, she began rolling over (controlled & consistently) at 5 months and she popped 2 bottom teeth at her 6 month mark. I'm wondering what 7 months will bring - sitting up alone perhaps? She is eating like a champ nowadays. Still nurses about 5 times a day, eats a breakfast of oatmeal + bananas or peaches and for dinner she has had any combination of avocado, sweet potatoes, peas, and pears. It took a little while for her to get the hang of food. We started out with cereal, and have s-l-o-w-l-y made our way to real food. She has just in the last week or so, really decided to take off with eating.

Our baby has been sleeping straight through the night for a week or so now. Happy or sad? I can't decide. Happy to be getting solid sleep again, but sad to miss out on the once a night feeding. She sometimes wakes up and stirs a bit around 3 or 4am, and if I reeeaaallly wanted to I could probably go to her, but she's back to sleep in 5 minutes...just long enough for me to think about getting out of bed. ;) The video monitor is so neat...I love looking at her cute baby bum high up in the air and her legs tucked under her body.

Her naps are sporadic and inconsistent, but whatever, she's happy to be awake playing with her sissy. ;) love these kids...

Now, let's see if I can post some pics from my iPad on here. Blogger is not iPad friendly, so this may not work. A blogger app would be nice!