i just looked at my blog for the first time in a while and realize that the last time i posted was a month ago, when ivy turned 5 months. and it makes sense that i have not been over here in the last month since robert was gone to germany and rwanda and i was solo parenting. not much time for blogging.
all of that to say, another month has flown by and sweet ivy ann is now SIX months old. that is a half of a year, which is always the point with my babies where i look up and say, 'what the heck?' where in the world did those six months go? even though her early weeks where she was not sleeping (or pooping) on her own do seem like a distant season, surrounded by haze, i also cant bring myself to believe that its has been half a year already.
ivy is still in the 90% for everything to do with growing. except for happiness. she is in the 100% range for happiness. she is so content, and fat, and happy. and we are all obsessed. eden calls her 'the sweetie' instead of ivy most times. etta calls her fweetie because she cant make the 'sw' sound. robert calls her little monster. come to think of it that is what he called all the girls as babies... i call her ives alot. she is sitting up (while still falling over much of the time) and trying to crawl and eating solid foods, which she is really into. so far its been sweet potatoes with ghee and garlic and bananas with coconut oil, eggs, and raspberries. oh and rice, girl is her father's daughter when it comes to rice. all the rice, all day long. oh and a personal favorite is the way she grunts when she is eating. she can't eat without making noise.
she is sleeping so well at night, which is worth a whole lot. i still dream feed her around 9:30 before i go to bed but shes sleeping till 7 and sometimes i even have to wake her at 7. the only way i know she is awake most mornings is that she starts shaking the sweet little rattle we leave in her bed. its the loveliest alarm clock. we are going to put up her crib and move her into the other girls' room this week, which i am really excited for. i think she will look so big in a crib.
she loves her bouncy seat. she cries really loudly out of frustration when something is just beyond her reach and she can't quite army crawl far enough. she will be full on crawling before im back on here to do a 7 month update, of that i am sure.
she smiles at her daddy so easily and really knows her family well. and she is a very happy participant/observer of whatever her big sisters are doing.
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