Dear Alice,
This month seems to have flown by! And it's your half birthday! Where have the last 6 months gone to? When I look through your pictures I barely recognise my tiny newborn - I seem to have a bouncy little girl now.
If you were rolling last month, now you are a rolling champ. I turn around for 10 seconds and you are completely on the other side of the room. More baby proofing is needed around the house I think! You're not crawling yet, but you seem to get around just fine without it with a combination of wiggling and crawling.
You hold your head up and look around at the world. You also love to be standing with support, and your little legs are super strong.
You will entertain yourself really well now on your mat or in the bumbo, as long as I'm in the room and you can look at me when you need to! I have a little den set up for you in each room to keep you safe.
You have been eating more and more! We're doing a combination of pureed weaning and baby led weaning / finger foods. You now have 3 meals a day, and 50% of the food ends up on you rather than in your mouth but that's fine!
You get super upset if I try and feed you so I normally just let you make your messy food paste and it's amazing to see you feed yourself so well! You love toast, fromage frais, watermelon, pear, apple, cucumber and cheese - all of which you can feed yourself which is an incredible feat with no teeth!
You still have no teeth but you've had a lot of red cheeks and unsettled nights so hoping they'll either come through or stop hurting you soon.
You don't sleep very well but you love a cuddle with mummy so that's fine.
You are talking and yapping away like a champ and you get annoyed if we don't reply! You like to make the mamamamama and dadadada sounds, so I'll just pretend you're talking to us :P
We have giggles and biiiiiig smiles which make everything worth while. Especially if mummy is singing! Which means I now look crazy pushing my trolley round Tesco and singing! You're favourite songs this week are Wiggly Woo and Twinkle Twinkle.
Your eyes have changed, so you won't have your daddies blue eyes, but probably my hazel eyes. You have gorgeous big eyes with lovely long eyelashes.
You have also chunked out a lot! You fit in some 6 - 9 month clothes, but you won't be in the sleepsuits for much longer. I think you must be eating steak when I'm not looking!
And of course, we love you more and more every day little duck!
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