6 Months Old, Already.....







The past six months have flown by. I was sitting around talking to my family the other night talking about how quickly Suzy is growing up and how it doesn't seem like it has already been six months. I wonder what I did before Suzy. Now, we all just sit around and stare at her. She is our entertainment. And, believe me, she is plenty of entertainment. She is busy, busy, busy. She is eating more, doing more, learning more, and sleeping less. She definitely keeps me exhausted and full of life all in the same breath.

Suzy’s Six Month Stats

·         Formula

o       5 oz of Similac Sensitive for Fussiness and Gas every 3 hours during daytime hours

o       6 oz with bedtime bottle with Oatmeal Cereal

·         Baby Foods

o       Stage 1 and Stage 2 Baby Foods

§         Assorted fruits and oatmeal for breakfast

§         ½ container of fruit and  ½ container of veggies for supper

·         She loves all the flavors we have tried except squash!

·         Juice

o       2 oz of Gerber Baby Juice once per day

§         Her favorite seems to be White Grape

·         Weight

o       At Suzy’s last doctor appointment she weighed a grand total of 17 pounds even. She hasn’t gained a lot of weight in the past month. The doctor said that her weight gain would slowly decline due to her being more active. Whew…. I was beginning to think we may have to battle her weight her whole life J

·          A FEW of her Favorite Things

o       Being outside

o       Strolling

o       Barb and her Carter’s blanket

o       Fruit or popsicles (sugar free of course) in her infant feeder

o       Being in the water splashing

o       Bath time

o       Pulling hair

o       Any toy she can find to put in her mouth

Her beautiful bedding is getting removed from her bed if I cannot figure out to secure it better. She is destroying it.

That poor little eye is still turning in :( I am so ready for that to correct itself.

cruising around her bedroom

I told you that she was a busy girl!!

·         What is she doing, now?

o       Crawling

o       Scooting

o       Sitting up from crawling position

o       Pulling up in her baby bed

o       Teething terribly bad (you can see her little tooth about to pop through)

o       Giggles and screeches

o       Babbling

Suzy and I went to Batesville to meet Rachel the Saturday before her six month birthday to get some pictures taken in the sunflower field. These pictures are so different from the ones that we took at 16 weeks. She is sitting up on her own, now. She noticed things that were not right in front of her, which was a huge distraction. She did pretty well considering it was 8 o’clock in the morning and burning up hot already. She is covered in teething slobber in almost every photo!

Suzy is a pretty lucky girl. She has both grandmothers and great-grandmothers on mine and Scott’s side of the family. We knew that we needed to get some generation pictures taken so she would always remember all the lovely people in her life. While Alli (my cousin) was in town from Georgia we jumped on the opportunity to have her take some pictures of the family! I wish the grandfathers could have been present for the photoshoot… Busy men always seem to get out of getting their picture taken.

Mimi!!!

Gigi!!

Mommy!!

4 Generations of Smiths!

Great-Grandmothers-- Nanny and Memaw

Memaw!!

Daddy!!

I cannot wait to see what else will happen in Suzy's life over the next six months!! She is half a year old. I've said it before, I'll say it again, TIME FLIES!!