Say Cheese!

Well hello everybody!

Amazingly Charlie is nearing 6 months old already! I can't believe how fast the time is going by! We are scheduling some family portraits to be taken close to her birthday so she and I have to practice on getting her to sit up on her own. She is almost there but usually topples over about 5 seconds after I let her go. She still loves to stand (assisted) and has even stood w/o my help by holding onto our ottoman! She's getting so strong!


She has now tried several different solids. Besides oatmeal she's had peas (she does NOT like peas), carrots, sweet potatoes, prunes and bananas. This picture below was taken about 2 minutes before she threw up all the peas and formula she had just eaten (I'm not sure what the smile was all about since she obviously didn't like what she was eating, maybe she was picturing what she was about to do to me, or maybe she's just a REALLY happy baby). I was lucky enough to catch about 75% of it in her burp cloth since I saw her start gagging and got the burp cloth in position just in time, so clean up was fairly easy to do, but boy was it gross. I will not be attempting peas with her again anytime soon.


She's still in love w/ her bouncy chair and goes ape shit nuts in it. I swear she's going to fling herself out of it she gets to bouncing so hard! She also loves the bumbo at daycare so tomorrow we are going to go try to find a 2nd hand one b/c I cannot justify spending $40 on a new one that she will use for MAYBE a month. Generally she's just a really happy and easy going girl! We are very lucky to have such a sweet pea!


In other news I am fairly sure that Kobe is almost completely deaf. I need to call the vet to get him in and see if it is anything that can be fixed. He's old (8 years) but not THAT old. Although he doesn't seem to be bothered by it at all and he still acts the same as always just that he doesn't respond to me unless I'm screaming at him. It makes me sad though that he is obviously aging. My little shadow has become an old man. :( Luckily other than that he is still healthy and should have many more years to lick my feet to sleep (a bad and odd habit of his).

Well, I hope all is well w/ the rest of ya'll! Catch ya on the flip side!