What better way to celebrate the beginning of a new year than celebrating a half year with our littlest family member, miss Waverly Violet!
She brought such richness to our last year, I can’t even explain it. On one hand, we’ve all long since become familiar with her. She’s not “new” anymore. Yet she is still SO exciting! The kids still squeal when she gets up in the morning, and they celebrate when she hits a new milestone. She is SO well loved, and fits in beautifully. As if thats ever been in question! We love our brood so so much.
This little peach tip the scales at 18 lbz 13 oz, which is up 2.2 lbs since last month. She’s SO chubby now, and extra soft. I could pinch that arm pudge aaaaall day! She’s SO sweet and snuggly! Her hair is getting SO long, and there’s so much new growth coming in, too!
Her two teeth from last month are all the way out now, and as always happens, they’ve completely changed her look! Wavy is exceptionally friendly to new people, and rarely makes strange.
Right after Wavy’s five month post, she found her voice! She squawks like I imagine a pterodactyl might squawk. She’s lucky she’s so cute, because her cooing in the night has become far less endearing. And with her teething like crazy again, she’s up a lot more than she used to be. We love you, Wavy, but we’re sooooo tired!
Another change with Wavy is that she almost never needs to be burped anymore. She’ll either burp right as we sit her up after, or she’ll just burp on her own later. We used to burp her until she burped. Now we pat her back a couple of times, and if nothing comes of it, we leave it. She burps eventually. She’s SO user friendly!
If you haven’t noticed in the pictures, Waverly sits now! This feels like a big one! She often hangs out on her back in a half-sit up position, trying to sit up. Its funny and cute 🙂 But when we sit her up, she’s surprisingly stable! She still topples over after a while, but slowly and in control of herself. She self corrects, too, if she starts to lean too far one way. None of our children have had this much balance and stability at this point! Her hand eye coordination is improving, too! She’s considerably more grabby these days.
Oh, and she eats! Just little bits here and there, but she’s tasted yogurt and apple sauce so far, and she’s both skeptical and super interested. It depends on the day. She always loves sitting up in her high chair.
Wavy still doesn’t have much of a schedule. We’ve never really forced the schedule thing, but our babies always kind of made their own. I wonder if its just because she’s so relaxed that she goes with our flow. Its hard to know. She’ll sleep at other people’s houses, or in her car seat or the carrier. Usually, on a home day, she sleeps in, and has some wakeful time before lunch, or during lunch, and then she naps shortly thereafter. Sometimes her nap goes until supper, and she’s up until bedtime. Other times, she wakes up in the early afternoon and has another shorty nap before bedtime. Bedtime around here is 7:00, and once the others are down, we feed her a bottle in the quiet and she goes down easy as pie! Never an issue getting this one to sleep!
Praise the Lord for six months with Waverly!