Six Months Old!

Gemma officially turned 6 months old yesterday, and went for her 6 month checkup this morning. She is doing great - a lot of things have happened for her just in the past week. She has suddenly gotten the hang of eating solids and is just scarfing down everything we give her. She seems to take after her dad - she seems to particularly love her green beans! In the past week, she has also gotten much closer to being able to sit on her own. As of yesterday, she could do it for about 30 seconds to 1 minute before she sort of toppled over. Also yesterday, her first tooth finally broke the surface! She has been working on it for a while and had a kind of rough week, and though you can't really see her tooth too much yet, it is definitely there now!

This morning, we took Gemma for her 6 month checkup. Cy and I both made guesses on how much she would weigh: he picked 13.6; I picked 13.10. She was 13.13 (10th percentile), which was good. . .she almost made 14 pounds, but not quite! She was 24.5 inches long (10th percentile), and her head was 16.2 (25th percentile). Surprisingly, she was still on the growth charts! Then she had to get her shots. . .she cried pretty hard, but just for a few minutes. Still, I hated it for her. :( I am looking forward to her 9 month checkup - I was promised she would not have to have any shots! Anyway. . .the point is that she is doing great, for which we are very thankful. Time is just going by so fast - I can't believe how grown up my little girl is getting already! :)