6 Months Old

OK, so I am a little late with the 6 month post. I was hoping to write this on her 6-month birthday which was a week ago Saturday (the 12th). I guess life gets a little busy around here when school is in session.

Here are some pictures of her I took on her 6-month birthday.

Madison is growing by leaps and bounds a changing every day.

She prefers to be sitting up rather than laying down.

She only spends about 2 seconds on her tummy before rolling over to her back.

Madi is starting to try and turn back to her tummy, it will only be a matter of time before she is rolling all over the place.

She loves her toes and plays with them a lot.

Madi will hold her own bottle while she is lying flat, and that makes our mornings go a lot quicker when she can feed herself.

Our Texas vacation this summer offset her checkups, so she will see the doctor on the 28th for her 6-month check up and shots. I will post her stats after her appointment.

Madison has been sure having fun with her daddy lately. She giggles at him when he plays with her. They have been spending more time together, but when she is tired or upset it is mommy or nothing.

We have two aquariums that house our collection of turtles, chiclids, and tetras. We were cleaning the aquariums the other day and Madi decided to help. She was sitting on the floor out of reach of the hose...or so I thought. I left the room for a couple of seconds and came back Madi holding the hose and water shooting all over the office.

These pictures were taken after we had cleaned up the mess and she was trying to get the hose again...our little "helper".

Madison loves music. She has this cool toy at her Grammy and Granddad Cone's house that plays all kinds of classical music. She almost always stops to listen when it plays. Daddy let Madi play with his guitar the other day. Madi really liked hitting the strings to make it play.

She is really starting to play with her toys. She will sit and occupy herself for quite a while with her box full of toys we keep in the living room. Her favorites seem to be the plastic blocks we have.

It sure makes a mess for mommy to pick up when she is done as she is learning to throw her toys around. She is happy until she can't reach them any more.

Madi is really starting to stand. She can hold on to my fingers and pull herself to a standing position. She can also balance herself if we stand her up against the chair.

Somehow I think she might walk before she crawls.

She is definitely getting busy. She wants to go and wants to go now. She will climb all over our laps when we are holding her trying to get to a toy, our food, or the TV remote.

This morning, she was actually rocking the chair as she stood against it.

In other news, Brandon and I are getting back into the routine of work. We have finished three weeks of school and so far so good. I am really trying to keep my students accountable this year, and will probably start calling parents next week if I am still seeing missing assignments...I don't get it when students don't turn stuff in.

In terms of our next little angel, we had our first appointment on the 10th. We just saw the nurse, who drew blood and asked questions. Our estimated due date is April 4th, Easter Sunday. This makes me 12 weeks pregnant today. We are not quite sure of the dates, so we will have an ultrasound on the 29th to verify the due date and to make sure everything is going as expected.

Here is my first belly picture with baby #2. This was taken on Tuesday when I was 11 weeks and 2 days.

Well, my weekly laundry is clean and is just sitting there staring at me to put it away before bed. It is amazing how our laundry increased when Madi joined our family!

I will try and be better about getting a post up every week, but no promises. :)