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!