6 Months

As we were going through our fertility journey I often thought about how amazing it would be to experience all of the milestones that come along with having a child. You can dream in your head how it will be but no amount of dreams can truly compare to living it. 

Of course parenting is tough! It's tough, messy, exhausting, but gosh it's so worth it.

Our sweet little blessing, Emmy, turned 6 months old yesterday! Um excuse me?! It is so hard to believe that so much time has already gone by, I feel like she was just born and handed over to us. 

This girl is pure joy! She changes everyday and seeing her develop makes us feel like we aren't doing too bad of a job raising her haha. I mean come on who looks this happy after getting 4 shots?! Certainly not me. She had her 6 months well-baby appointment yesterday and is growing just as she should. She is 15.1 pounds and 25 inches tall, she is a healthy little shorty lol. She is an expert at grabbing handfuls of hair now haha so this mama puts her hair in a ponytail most of the time. 

She is just like me and Kyle in that she LOVES food! She will pretty much eat anything that is put in front of her. Her favorites though are sweet potatoes, squash, green beans, bananas, apples, peaches, and peas. We have also given her small amounts of mashed potatoes and I will break off small pieces of cornbread and other soft textured foods for her.

She gets super cranky when she is hungry, just like her mama. We also are attributing some of her sass to teething, no little teeth have broken through but her doctor felt some pretty significant bumps and said it could be soon.

She still enjoys her carseat, she has been on 4 road trips to Florida and has been a champ every time. 

She is still sleeping great, she is down by 7:30-8pm every night and sleeps until 7am. I tend to stay up late and get up early so this her schedule is fine by me. :)

Probably one of her favorite things to do is sit and play. She can sit up on her own now and it's like a whole new world has opened up for her. She sit among her toys and just babbles. Her favorites are her BeatBelle, stuffed giraffe, remote, and a giraffe puppet haha.

It does free up my hands so that I can get some stuff done in the kitchen. I can see her so she feels independent and I'm not tied to her. We can tell that she is trying to crawl, she gets on all fours and will move back and forth, but she can't quite figure out how to make it happen.

Even the really hard days aren't that bad, this is all that we have ever wanted and we are so lucky that this sweet girl is ours.