McKell's 6th month
We started out this month with a big milestone! You sat all by yourself! You were just sitting on the living room floor watching Larry the Cucumber sing silly songs. You didn't wabble or fall over. Mommy and Daddy are so amazed at how deliberate your movements are. Its like you were thinking about sitting up for so long and then finally you decide to just do it without any hesitation or fear.
Barely 2 days later, you decide to do another first! You splashed in the bathtub!
This month was also your very first Mardi Gras. Mommy and Daddy thought you were just a little too young to go see the parades so we spent a nice quiet day at home with Daddy starting our organic garden.
This month you also learned to pass a toy from your left hand to your right hand. You seem to use your left hand more than your right, and Daddy is already thinking you might be left handed like him!
This month we introduced you to squash and spinach. Much to our surprise you love the spinach but won't touch the squash unless it's mixed with some other fruit.
This month we also started sleeping in your big girl bed in your very own room! Mommy wasa little sad not to have you so close anymore, but you had definitely outgrown the cradle! You are going down at night with no problems and are sleeping very well at night. We do still get up at least once to feed you, but Mommy secretly loves the quiet snuggle time so she doesn't mind at all.
McKell 5 Months!
This month we are starting to get in a little more of a routine, with coming to work with Mommy and Daddy, naps and playtime. Nana came to visit for a few weeks, and we bought your first highchair! You love to sit and watch Mommy cook and bang the toys on the chair, however you hate getting put into the highchair! Everytime we do you get stiff as a board and won't bend your legs! At the beginning of Feb we noticed that you were reaching for the cup everytime someone tried to take a drink, so on the first of Feb you got your very own sippy cup! You knwe exaclty what to do with it! Now you really love to drink water, although I am not totally sure how much ends up in your mouth and how much ends up down the front of you, but you are awefully happy about it either way.
Not long after giving you the sippy cup, we really noticed you reaching for our food too!
So on Feb 3rd we gave you your very first taste of food! Mommy peeled, steemed and pureed some sweet potatoes and we all gathered around the highchair to see what you would do....
Nobody had to say "awwww" or make airplane sounds with the spoon. You looked right at the sweet potatoes and opened your mouth, like you had been eating solid food all along! You will eat about 2oz at a time now, and Mommy is learning to expand her culinary baby food expertise. By the end of the month you regularly eat sweet potatoes, pears and apples!
That very same weekend, we all went over to Meme and PawPaw's house for a party! Aunt Laura and Uncle Mike had a special cake made so we could all find out if your new cousin is going to be a boy or a girl! Mommy was asked to be the baby's Godmother and she got to cut the surprise king cake! Guess what's inside...
It's a BOY! Cousin Ames Wyatt Daly we can't wait to meet you in June!
The very next weekend was another first for you. Your first tea party! We threw a Tea Party Bridal Shower for your Nanny Rachael. We all got dressed up and wore our party hats!
I admit that we were having so much fun with you and you grew up so much this month that we completely forgot to weigh and measure you!
McKell 4 Months
The story of your 4th month continues with us still visiting family in Washington and begins in the most exciting way I could've imagined. On Dec 17th you laughed for the first time. You were smiling up at Mommy who was singing Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, then suddenly you got this very serious look on your face and then the giggles came! Mommy cried and yelled for Nana to come. You must have laughed for 5 minutes nonstop. It was great! Of course we all spent the rest of our visit trying to make you laugh some more.
We made it back home on Sun the 18th, and everyone was so amazed how much you had grown in 10 days. We spent the next week getting ready to celebrate your first Christmas. Mommy did a lot of baking and Daddy did some last minute shopping. For Christmas Eve we got all dressed up and headed over to Guy and Michelle Picards's house for dinner and a gift exchange.
On Christmas morning we had a bit of an adventure at 5:45am which left Mommy with the biggest bruise on her butt and both Mommy and Daddy wide awake. You never woke up, so after some snuggling we left you asleep in our bed. Mommy and Daddy had a very nice quiet little Christmas morning. At 10am, your Granny Kitty came over for breakfast and at 12:30 we loaded up the car and headed over to Pawpaw and Meme's house for Christmas dinner. You were such a lucky girl and got all sorts of fun stuff for Christmas. Our favorite gift was the wooden rocking horse your Pawpaw made.
After Christmas things were pretty quiet around our house, with the exception of New Year's Eve. Staring at around 7:30pm the kids all up and down the block were setting off fireworks. Gunther was running all over the house barking and you didn't wake up one time!
Now that the holidays are over we spend time everyday playing on the floor with all our new toys and reading books. You especially love your fish rattle and your stuffed puppy, although you are pretty happy with anything you can get in your mouth. On Jan 7th you surprised us by reaching out, picking up the pacifier and putting it right into your mouth. We have tummy time everyday too, and you hold your head up and watch Gunther run back and forth chasing his ball. You are such a happy baby even through the teething.
At the end of the month you weighed 14 1/2lbs, and are 25 inches long! You are now going to bed all by yourself at 8:30pm and sleeping until almost 8am! Sometimes we wake up in the morning and can't believe how much you've grown overnight!
McKell 3 months old
This month we celebrated McKell's first Thanksgiving. We all have a lot to be thankful for this year! You are now 10lbs and 23 1/2 inches long. We wake up every morning to big smiles and now you are "talking" to us for about 30 minutes at a time. You have learned all sorts of new things this month including how to blow raspberries and stick your tongue out at us. For Thanksgiving we went over to Meme and Pawpaw Daly's house, with Aunt Laura, Uncle Mike and your great Aunt Judy. What a social butterfly you have become, and were totally happy to go visit everyone for most of the afternoon, until we wore you out and came home so we could all take a nap.
We skipped all the black friday shopping, although Mommy and McKell were still up at 5am. Instead we went out to a tree farm to cut our own Christmas tree. Sadly the only good trees on the lot were in the orange grove!
So we went to a regular tree lot and came home with a 9ft tree! Took Mommy and Daddy all weekend to get it all decorated, but you sure do love the lights.
On Dec 7th, you got to take your very first airplane ride! Mommy and McKell flew all by ourselves all the way to Washington to visit Nana and Papa Dennis. You were the best baby on the plane! Not one single time on the flights did you cry! Even the flight attendant came up and told us what a wonderful girl you are. The Captain came out and gave you a little travel log, where he wrote how many miles you flew and signed it! Sadly Mommy's hands were too full to get any pictures of you and the Captain. We spent 10 days in Washington, where you got to meet your Great Grandma Cox, your Great Grandpa Neumayer and your crazy Uncle Dan. We had dinner with Aunt Karen, Uncle Dave and your cousin Nick, but you slept most of the time (and Mommy forgot to take any pictures)
You turned 3 months old while we were in Washington, so the rest of the story continues on the next page!
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