5-6 months old

So this month I feel like you have changed so much. I keep sitting here thinking about all the changes you have gone through and some I haven't really noticed no matter how big or small because i feel like you do new things everyday and keeping track i forget to. So one day i sat down and thought about all the things you can do now you have been on the "outside" for 6 months :-) some are little some are big but what happens in a babies world are all big accomplishments :-)

1. Holds your head up all by yourself without us needing to even help you anymore. *no more bobble head baby*
2. You turn your head towards sounds and when someone calls your name.
3. You shift your weight every which way when we are holding you or your sitting on our lap. Wriggle worm is coming into play
4. You love to grasp things with your tiny little fingers. You focus on getting something and you worked out how to pick things up and hold things even little things now.
5. You love to discover new textures. Rough, Smooth, fury. prickly. You especially love Daddy's beard
6. You love to study new things. Sometimes you will just stare at something like your trying to work out how it works. (eg. Ceiling Fan)
7. You love your voice. You grunt, groan, laugh, hiss and sometimes just love to talk to yourself in your bed of a morning before you cry thinking we haven't heard you yet but we have been listening to you for ages.
8. You can roll from your tummy to your back and your back to your tummy with super ease. You even now lift yourself up and then push yourself backwards. Don't think it will be too long til you are crawling.
9. We put you down into bed in one position and we go in and your in the complete opposite position and around the wrong way. (secretly i think you get up run around your room then act like a baby when we come back in *sneaky little boy*)
10. You love to shake toys and throw them around. You like to drop things and see us pick them up. Game you think it is. I think your just enjoying the development of distance and depth perception :-)
11. YOU DO RASPBERRIES ALL THE TIME!!!!
12. You are a super placid baby that is happy probably abour 85-90% of the time. You really only get upset when your overtired or hungry or just want to snuggle. You are happy to play by yourself but when you want some attention you let us know and then you smile knowing we are there to play with you
13. Your sitting in your high chair which makes it easier for mum to cook becasue you can sit with me and I can talk to you on my level and not have to look down int he little lay down seat (bouncer type thing)
14. You love when daddy or me use our voices and change our tone. You love when we will be saying something or singing in a high pitch then change to a low pitch. It makes your smile and laugh.
15. You love to put anything and everything into your mouth. Especially our fingers you love to chomp on them which creates a HEAP of drool! Drool here drool there.. everywhere there is drool. Dripping off our body especially our elbows when you were laying in our arms.
16. You can pull something onto your face them move it and you even make that into a game. Whether we are doing it with you or your doing it to create your own play time.
17. You not only play with your activity mat but you now love to pretty much crash tackle it and hit the crap out of your toys on it that it swings from side to side.
18. You now look for where mum and dad are. If someone is holding you we often find you look for us and when you see us you give us big smiles and then realise your ok and enjoy the company of the people who are entertaining you
19. You LOVE your cousin Hayley. You KNOW without a doubt who she is and whenever she is near you love to smile at her even when she sits on you or farts in your face which happened this month. lol, She better watch out for when you can fight back.
20, You really know who a lot of key people are in your life now. You can see by your expressions that you have facial and sound recognition. Especially people like Nanna and Boofy.
21.Your starting to use consonants. We are trying really hard to get you to say Dada. It sounds like you have the Ba Ba Ba Ba sound and sometimes it sounds like a D sound. Nothing yet where we have gone FOR SURE thats what we said.
22. You know where your food comes from. I love that bond that breastfeeding gives a mother and child and i love that before i even get ready you know whats coming and you make this excited movement and sound that makes me laugh. You sometimes are a very loud eater.
23. You are loving labels and zippers and buttons lately. You like to hold them and touch them and especially tags on clothes or toys you love to hold them and suck on them.
24. You are a big help when we change your nappy. You hold your feet or you hold your clothes up.
25.  You love looking at yourself in the mirror. You see yourself and you either smile or laugh. You love it when we pull faces and you can see it through the reflection
26. You LOVE twinkle twinkle little star.
27. You started solids right before your 6 month birthday. You had sweet potato. Now you have had banana, pineapple, yoghurt, rusk sticks, soup nanna made i mashed up for you which had lots of veggies in it etc.
28. You have your TWO bottom teeth the week right before your turned 6 months.
29. You are flexible and love to eat your toes.

Some pics from the month that was. :-)

 Your very loved by Mummy and Daddy.

 Trying out Dylans Jolly Jumper ... you now LOVE to bounce.

Daddy teaching you too early for mummy's liking.. the gaming controllers

 I love coming in and seeing this view.

You like to tell all your toys secrets. They all sit around and listen intently.

 Throwing 

 Picking Up

 Love these thighs.

 Chewing on everything. Especially Daddy's fingers.

 Aghh Cheeky Bum :-P

 Nightly Chill out sessions with dad.. (notice you holding his hand)

 Practising sitting up in Mum and Dads bed. Still not sitting completely on your own.

 Celebrating Cousin Hayley's 2nd Birthday - Peppa Pig Party

 Spiffy just like your Uncle Dot.

 Hmmm the introduction to solids.

 We went and hung out with Ma at Orange Grove. Enjoying the sunshine where Mum and Dad got engaged and married on the wharf.

 You like to sit this way.

 Cousin love

 Doing Wheelies with Dad in your pram

Below are some of my favourite views......

 I have found my toes.. and i love them.

 Mothers Day Craft... that little handprint... Sigh too precious.

 Fun times - singing row row row your boat in your cousins backyard.

Sometimes the only way i can shower.... the way I keep you entertained :-P

 Boofy and Uncle Dot call you Champ. Maccas brought out a limited time only McChamp burger... They had to take you to see it and have a photo.

 Mothers Day - 2013. First official Mothers Day. You have completed your dad and my life in more ways than we could have ever imagined. I love being your mummy more than you will ever know!!!!

You got to meet Bob Abney. He knew me when i was a little little girl... This was too precious. A hand who has seen me grow up. A hand that has travelled to Australia so many times from America .. year after year. Even at 83 he came and your little hand held a hand that has seen and had so many adventures and you get to take the next generation on and see even more new ones.