6 months!

Sherrie baby is 6 months old!! She can do so many things and is really so much fun to play with. For starters, she has started to sit up quite well on her own (with support left and right)to play with toys. She does so enthusiastically. i think she will sit without support come her 7th month. Really on the dot with all her milestones. She can also stand with her two feet on the ground while we hold her by her armpits for quite a long time as well. When we do so she is so excited because she gets a different viewpoint of the world around her. She giggles and screams to show her delight.

Aside from this she has also started crawling.. backwards! She pushes up on her arms and then it moves her backward. She now can move around my bed in super fast speed and not by rolling! Quite scary to wake up and see her at the foot of the bed. Thank goodness the cot is on the side blocking her from falling off and i am on the other side. Else i don't think i'd be able to sleep peacefully. Today she crawled backwards on the mat and almost covered it from end to end! Very tiring to play with her, but as i said, super fun! I can also do aeroplane with her i.e. hold her in tummy time position and move her parallel to the ground like a plane.. whoosh! And then since she is much stronger, I don't have to handle her so delicately anymore.. which makes it very fun. She likes to be lifted into the air and particularly likes the word 'down' said in a very dramatic way.

She has also started on rice cereal, which she likes. She takes 3 tsp per day and i'm thinking of increasing it because she doesn't seem to be full at night.. still waking up for a night feed. Really cracking my brain as to how to prolong her sleep at night so that we can get some time for ourselves!! Hopefully the 2 cereal feeds a day will work. We also tried bananas, which she positively disliked. Her disgusted face spoke millions and while I know it was probably an awful experience for her, it was very funny for us when we watched her because she was so genuinely disgusted. haha.. We also tried carrot, which she seemed to like much more than banana but not as much as her cereal. The next thing we're going to try is avocado and pumpkin. I think there's a high chance she will be ok with these 2. :) Very fun!

Now she is actively showing her wants to us. When we take away something she wants, she will protest. When she wants something that we are holding she wil reach out her hand or shake her legs. When excited she will laugh/giggle/squeal - all very delightful. Oh yes, she also is making sounds that sound like whispers but not particular 'words' seem to be coming out... just whispers. Haha... And her babbles sound like 'oo', 'ha', 'ba'.. a little more like words. She can also be very manja, lying on me when she is tired and hugging me when she wants to.. but she hasn't learnt to kiss. Hopefully by the next post she would have. Am looking forward to that...

Trying out the sippy cup to see if she wants to take water/milk from that, so that she can progress to holding her own cup/bottle to drink milk. So far she thinks it's a toy and puts her mouth to it and chomps on it ,but hasn't realised that she can also suck the spout. I shall try milk in it tomorrow.