Baby Cummings: December 2013

Our baby Em is 6 months old!!!!!! No, I'm not kidding, it's true! Half a year old...unbelievable!

I feel like Emerson is becoming such a little lady these days. She is really becoming her own unique person with her own personality and features. On the whole, she's a fairly serious baby. She doesn't just give away smiles for free...she makes you work for them :) That being said, when you do get a smile or better yet a laugh, it's the cutest thing in the world! She also has such a girly little voice, it's adorable. Unfortunately, the spit up continues. There were two days this month where she only spit up about 10 times, and I thought maybe it was coming to an end, but I knew it was too good to be true.

Our little peach has got to be teething because she's been chewing on everything and drooling like crazy. She has also had three rough nights in a row where she hasn't been sleeping well. I keep checking every morning, but so far no pearly whites to be seen! Em had her six month shots today, and she didn't even cry - big brave girl!

We are so looking forward to the holidays and Emerson's first X-mas. Even though she won't have a clue what's going on, everything is more fun with Em around. We also can't wait for January because Em's Aunt Karey and Uncle Dan are coming home, and we finally get to meet Em's cousin Lochlan...seriously can't wait!!!!!

Here's some tidbits from the past month:

- At six months old, Emmy weighs 18lbs 5oz., and she's 26.5 inches long. The other babies are starting to catch up, she's only at the 80-85th percentile now instead of the 95th

- Emerson can now roll from front to back too!

- Emerson sat up by herself for the first time on Nov.21, now it's the only thing she wants to do

- She's got quite the appetite! We started solids this month and her first food was sweet potato. She has liked everything we've given her, except beef and vegetables. So far she's had sweet potato, butternut squash, carrots, peas, green beans, peaches, pears, raspberry and banana, apple and strawberry

- She laughs when I kiss her belly over and over again

- Emerson and Casey are best friends, she laughs at Casey so much it's hilarious

- She just really learned how to jump in her jolly jumper over the weekend. Now she will jump continuously for almost 15 mins.

- She always sleeps on her belly now

- She is wearing size 9 months now. She can still wear a lot of her 6 month tops, but not for much longer

- She has almost outgrown her carseat, we'll have to get a stage 2 carseat in the next month

- Emerson has just learned to love her Sophie over the past couple of days

- She now sits up in her whale tub during bath time, and she knows how to turn on the faucet

- She can grab for toys and pull them to her, and pass things from one hand to the other

- We're pretty sure she knows her name, she seems to look whenever we call for her

- She has started to cry whenever I leave the room...

- She's babbling a lot, blowing bubbles, and saying "yayayayaya" and "dadadadadada"

- We got Em to start taking a bottle again this month

- She watches me like a hawk! Everywhere I go she follows, to the point of falling over just to keep watching me

- She is still a very snuggly baby which I love! I don't love that she won't nap in her crib, but I do love when she sleeps on my tummy

- This month we did the following: went to her cousin Amelia's first birthday party in St. Catharines, went to the movies with a few of Em's baby friends, went swimming, went to lots of momsgroup gatherings, had visits from Bethany and Zee, Grandma and Grandpa Cummings, Auntie Alex, and Great-Grandma Gracie, had some friends over for the Sweet Pea Swag Open House and visited with Grandma Levstik, Aunt Jenny, and her cousins, spent a weekend in Clarksburg, and had her first visit with Santa Clause.

Yummy!