6 MoNtSh

So, last week we had Joely's 6 month checkup- SeRiOuSly, where did the last 5 months go?! She is such a wonderful part of our family, and we just love her to pieces. At 6 months she...

*Rolls both directions

*Loves Rice cereal, Oatmeal cereal, sweet potatoes, plums and carrots (those are all I have given her so far :)

*Loves her brother Parker

*Sits pretty good by herself

*Loves to jump and bounce, but still can stand with help

*Very good at holding her head up, getting ready to crawl, doesn't get on knees yet, but can push herself backwards, or scoot around on her back

*Pivots herself around to get what she wants

*Uses both hands very well, including transferring back and forth.

*Is the cutest little girl anyone could hope for :)

*Is a TOTAL momma's girl, literally, she does smile for Parker and she does love him, she sometimes will kinda smile at daddy, and sometimes at other people, usually if I am holding her, as of yet, she is not big on other people holding her, so I feel bad for other people, but glad for me because I certainly love her to pieces.

 Joe says that Joely is a mini me- She sleeps in weird positions, and I do too :)

Here are her stats~

Weight- 14.770 lbs, 22.39 percentile

Length- 25.75" 46.06 percentile

Head-16.5"- 30.82 percentile

We sure love you baby girl!

GoOdNeSs

Wow, so much going on, so little time to blog (apparently :) Anyway, on some updates, Parker is doing {FaNtAsTiC} with the potty, amazing! Joely can roll over from her back to her tummy, then she is stuck, and not happy.  I will be grateful when she figures out how to roll the other direction :) I gave her rice cereal for the first time yesterday and she LOVED it! She is such a happy girl and we love having her in our family! Joe went and just got back from Australia. He went for work and had a good time and everything thankfully went smoothly. Me, I had to get a root canal, while Joe was gone. Awesome... crazy painful and Loratab and I do not go so well together, so I was able to lose about 9 pounds while Joe was gone :) Not the healthiest way to lose weight... The kids and I along with my mom and sister were able to go to the Strawberry Days parade, we had a lot of fun!

5 MoNthS

How is my baby girl 5 months already?!? I mean in the next month, I can start her on baby food, and she will be closer to crawling than not crawling (no, she isn't even starting, she has only rolled over once- AND I MISSED it...)

At 5 Months she is...

SMILING, she is a VERY smiley baby

Giggles, not tons, so you know that she is thrilled when she does

Scoots around everywhere, she is so silly

LOVES her brother, he is so good with her (when not mauling her too much :)

LOVES mommy, and I kinda like her too :)

Very good with her hands, she is very good at grabbing and very deliberate in what she wants. 

PoTtY TrAiNnInG

So, last week, the stars all aligned and I realized that Parker needed to be potty trained. (No scouts, 2 diapers left, already got weekly deals and groceries...) So, the training began on Wednesday, and we had 2 accidents, 2 partials (made it to the potty, didn't pull down the undies :) and 2 successes. Since then he has had only 2 day time accidents, and has gone every other night without an accident. I didn't want to do the pull ups at night because then  (in my opinion, I know others have their own) it seemed contradictory, daytime, undies, don't like to be in them if you have had an accident, but at night it is ok to put the glorified diapers on and go in them. Anyway, I realize that the nighttime training will take a bit longer, but it has gone better than expected. During the day, it is still sometimes easier to just keep the pants off, but we have run errands and gone to visit family and he has let me know when he had to go potty and we have made it before he has gone. Yay Parker!