6 Months!

Little Bugs is 6 months old! I can't believe it! Time really flies when you spend your days mixing bottles and baby oatmeal, changing diapers, playing pattycake and keeping on a nap schedule!

Ashlyn is so much fun. She has big smiles for everyone. My favorite part of the day is going in to get her up in the morning. She always has a big huge smile for me! It seriously makes my day! This month she has mastered rolling over from her tummy to her back... which means she will never stay on her tummy for more than a few seconds at a time! She is also so good at grabbing things. In fact, she does it all the time, nonstop. It is very necessary to keep an eye on her or before I know it she has chewed up my shopping list (has possibly happened more than once)! She has also mastered the "screaming bloody murder" cry, she can whip it out in seconds, even when I know she is not really upset, just doesn't want to take a nap. I HATE listening to it but sometimes it takes a few minutes for her to calm down for nap time. She used to work up to it, but now she just lets the big guns go right away!

Ashlyn's first tooth popped out the day before her 6-month birthday! She was definitely fussy during the last 3 days of teething. It made me realize what an easy baby she is most of the time! Ever since that tooth came in, she is always making the most hilarious little face with her mouth. She like, puckers her lips in and holds them there tight. She used to constantly have her mouth open and be drooling, but now she is always making that funny face! I still laugh every time I see her doing it. The above shot is a pretty good picture I got of it--besides you have to ignore the food all over her face of course...


I admit I have busted out the Baby Einstein a few times, especially during teething, when she refused to be left alone for even 5 minutes. Ashlyn's not really watching TV in this picture, but Collin thought this was pretty funny. And those of you who have babysat her know.... she loves TV! Probably because she hardly ever watches it at home. That changed when I needed 15 minutes to shower!


On to some likes and dislikes...

Ashlyn LOVES
-Sitting up! It's unfortunate she can't quite do it by herself. The current fix I use for this is to just sit her in her Bumbo with a basket of toys next to her, she will pick them up and drop or throw them somewhere one by one until it's empty!

-Riding in the stroller *for limited amounts of time!

-Bath time!

-Being naked!

-Lucy! She is SO fascinated with Lucy right now. She gets a big grin whenever she sees her coming and if she's close enough Lucy's hair gets pulled and her eyes get poked. So Lucy pretty much keeps her distance! It's pretty funny. If only Lucy knew what will be coming once Ashlyn is mobile.

-Being outside

-Classical music. I have noticed a big difference in how calm she is in the car depending on what music I am listening to! Hip hop? Not so much. But I put in a classical piano CD and she will sit calmly and listen for like 10 whole minutes!

Ashlyn does NOT like
-Laying on her back! I guess now that she knows how fun it is to sit up, whenever she's on her back she pulls her head up and flails like she's trying to do a sit-up. Oh, and she cries while doing this.

-Car rides! She all of a sudden has a super-short attention span when it comes to being in her carseat. Boo on this.

-The whole sippy cup thing. Good thing we have plenty of time to work on that, she hates it.

-Getting a shirt put on her. You would think I was torturing her with her screams.

We love having this little pumpkin in our lives so much! She is a sweet spirit and so much fun. Happy 6 months!