Sydney Kate || 6 Months

Hello from the outside...

SIX Months! What?!? Half a year gone by. 184 days and I can't seem to remember what exactly I did before you. You have made my world more than complete, Sydney Kate. Man, I still can't believe you are mine. I love you more than you'll ever know!!!  OK, ok...on to this months happenings. 

The biggest adventure this month was that you and I took a TWO WEEK trip to Oklahoma! Daddy had to work, but came to visit us on the weekends. Two weeks of being off schedule, naps in your car seat, non stop shopping and so much fun with our family. Let me not forget your favorite...you got to sleep with me at Gigi and Papa's house. My biggest mistake, but you loved it. I soon learned I created a monster and I would regret this decision big time. Whoops. Lesson learned. We celebrated all the Christmas festivities with our families and enjoyed every second! You were a big fan of the paper on your presents and got some really cool clothes and toys! Santa must've known you'd be graduating into a bigger car seat soon and brought you the next seat up from the one you love now. We were in Oklahoma for your first snow! It wasn't much, but we bundled you up and you were very amused by the little snowflakes! Gosh, what else? Your first New Years Eve party, OSU bowl game party, and tons of fun in between! 

Sydney Kate  ||  6 Months

This month...

*You perfected sitting up. It came out of nowhere (no longer the front lean) and you owned it immediately. You have such great balance and posture! 

*You love your voice and want the world to hear it. You have such expression when you "talk" and love to mimic our sounds. 

*You said your first words. Dada and Nana. Daddy was on cloud nine that you said his name first and with such sadness. He of course will drop anything and come to your rescue the second he hears his name. Nana, your Aunt Natalie believes, is you saying Natalie. She loved hearing her name as well. 

*You started eating cereal. We started you out on Oatmeal and you love it.

*You also started siting in your high chair. 

*Your sleeping pattern (at night) is not my friend. I've never missed sleep so much! If I tried really hard to find some sort of pattern (and this is hard) I'd say you're waking about twice a night.  -we'll talk more not this later. :)

You are 15lbs 13oz (44th percentile) and 25 3/4 inches long (41st percentile) According to your doctor, you are still perfect. You are still comfortably wearing size 3-6 month clothes- which is great because you've got an abundance of 6-12 months clothes but it would eat you up if you had to wear it anytime soon! We are still in size 2 diapers. You are still getting breastmilk during the day and formula at night. We started oatmeal at night, but it really hasn't taken the place of a feeding...mainly just for fun at this point. You love to sleep in your car seat and I don't blame you...it's the most comfortable thing ever! (big reason Santa brought you the next size up!) You've become quite the little shopping buddy. We usually spend our weekends shopping somewhere and you are always a trooper! Sleeping. Maybe its a 3-6 month regression, maybe its the total inconsistency of your little life with all the traveling we've done. Something has taken my 11-12 hour sleeper and made you not want to sleep. Remember earlier when I said I let you sleep with me? Yeah, I'm STILL paying for that. I really have started praying we can get you back to normal, even if its waking once in the night. I can live with that. 4-5 times, I just can't. :/

A Day in the Life of Sydney (at 6 months)

You are waking up anywhere between 4:00-7:00am! (depending on how our night went) You eat, get dressed and play a little bit before we go. We usually try to leave the house between 7:00-7:15 each morning to get to school. At daycare, you love to play with the other kids there. Since we've returned from the holidays, you have decided you like your morning nap again. You sleep about an hour in the morning and 2 1/2-3 hours in the afternoon. I pick you up between 4:00-4:30 and we head home to cuddle and play! You eat about 4 oz soon after we are home. We eat cereal around 6:00 each night...then you play a little while longer. We start your bedtime routine (eat, bath, book, sing, sleep) around 7:00pm. I'm currently experimenting with maybe keeping you up a little later to see if that will help. I'll update that next month. You are taking a little longer to go down in your crib these days. Hence, you'd rather be held than sleep in a crib. Once you go down, you're waking up around 10:30pm and 4:00am (sometime 1:00am also) That 4:00am wake up is the worst...its the last hour and a half before my alarm goes off. If I can get you back to sleep quick you'll sleep until 5:30 or 6:00...if it takes a while, you'll sleep until I wake you around 6:45. 

I'm trying so hard to slow down and enjoy every single moment because this is all going by entirely too fast! Oh, my beautiful girl! I love you so!!!