Dear Little Baby

Dear Lorelei,

Whoa Baby! 6 months old! You haven't been to the doctor for your 6month check up yet, so we don't exactly know how much you weight and how extremely tall you are. But you are just now growing out of the 6 month clothes, and will soon be in 9 month clothes. You have been eating fruits and veggies each day. In the mornings, you have a fruit. So far you have tried avacados, peaches, and bananas. You didn't like any of them. At night you have a veggie. You have tried squash (your favorite), carrots, green beans, sweet potatoes, and peas. You like all the veggies, but peas are your least favorite I think. We started a little bit of baby sign language for you and are working on the signs for milk, eat, more, finished, momma, daddy, diaper, grandma (or in your case Mimi and Nana), and Grandpa (grandpa and Gdaddy). Lots more sign language to come! You still wear size 2 diapers, but we are slowly experimenting with cloth diapers so hopefully we will find the perfect cloth diaper soon. You love playing in your pink bath tub and reading bath books and playing with bath finger puppets. Your jumperoo and play mat are still your favorite, but you also enjoy the bumbo seat and swing. Your favorite toys are your whooz-it, Sophie the giraffe, wubba dog paci, and books. Yesterday we got out the Follow Me Fiona toy for the first time. You loved it! The little dog sings and barks and walks on the floor and the idea is that you are suppossed to crawl and follow Fiona. Not so much yet, but I am sure you will follow her around in no time at all. You think your dogs, Maggie and Milo, are hilarious. But mostly Milo. He is so funny to you. (probably because he is funny looking!) You are not yet sitting up, but we try to practice with you daily. You roll over a lot though. At night, you are good for about 12 hours of sleep. That does not mean continuous though. We put you to bed around 7-7:30 and you usually wake up several times before midnight crying...and crying...and crying louder and harder. It can sometimes take hours before you go back to sleep. Last night you were throwing such a fit, you kicked your pajamas off. Just busted right out of the leg snaps! This past month, we celebrated your first Valentines Day. You had a Valentine's party at your school. Your Valentine's cards were so cute. We also visited Dallas twice. Your great Nana passed away on Feb. 28, 2010. It was a very sad day, and we are all still very sad about it, thinking of her often. You got to meet your great Nana in January, when we traveled to Atlanta. She loved you to pieces. Seeing her in January was a highlight of this year for sure. We went to Atlanta for the memorial service in early March and you met lots of family that you hadn't met before, as well as you got to see Nana, Grandpa, Bug, and Aunt Me. In the upcoming month we are MOVING! We are packing up and moving to Prosper, Texas. A little town just north of Frisco, where your Mimi and Gdaddy live. AND your Grandpa and Nana are *hopefully* going to be buying a place in Plano or Frisco soon, so I am sure they will be in town often to visit you. We are sad to leave our first house, our little town of Lubbock, and all the memories we have here. I will never forget bringing you home to this house and your Daddy and I felt perfectly complete for the first time ever. In honor of your first 6 months of life, I have done some reflecting & remembering. It seems like yesterday when you were born...

Remember when the night after you were first born and you were in the nursery at the hospital and your Daddy said to me, "I miss her!"

Remember when you were about to be born and the nurse told us that she could tell that you had hair and were were oh.so.excited. HAIR! YOU HAD HAIR!

Remember when you were first born and we just kept saying how cute you were!

Remember when you had jaundice and you had to stay on the bili-light 18-20 hours a day? You were so tiny and only a few days old. You Daddy was so worried about the time you spent on the light, he created a spreadsheet to keep track of how many hours you were on the light. What a sweet concerned Daddy you have.

Remember when your little clavicle was fractured after birth so they wrapped it up next to your body? And I was so worried about you.

Remember when you wouldn't nurse at the hospital so they would bring you to us in the middle of the night and make us give you formula? But remember when you wouldn't even take the formula so the night nurse had to help us? Remember how she held your tiny little body and told you to "sit up to the table" and asked you if those were good groceries?!

Remember when we first brought you home from the hospital and your Nana and I were in your nursery with you when you spewed projectile spit up all over the place? That was when your Daddy began the 3 hour search for an inclined baby sleep positioner.

Remember when you came home from the hospital for the first time and the dogs (especially Milo) went psycho and we thought we would have to send them away for a few days?! Momma had to call the vet ASAP to get him some medication!

Remember when you would lay on our chests and snooze for hours?

Remember when you had your days and nights mixed up? Everyone said "Keep her up more during the day" and I just about died! If only they knew!

Remember when you would wake up and cry all night long for the first few months? We just didn't know what was wrong or what we should do. Oh how we learn so quickly!

Remember when you took your first trip to Dallas and you were crying in the backseat and I couldn't stand to hear you so sad and not be able to hold you.

Remember when you learned how to pull your bow in front of your eyes and I knew our hairbow days would suddenly be much more difficult?

Remember when you sat in your Bumbo chair for the first time and whined and fussed because your head kept slumping over?

Remember when you discovered the dogs and started looking at them and looking so startled when they barked? And remember when you started thinking they were HILARIOUS!?

Remember when you discovered the t.v. and all you wanted to do was watch it? And I consistently turned your head away from it so you would not be over stimulated by all the colors and noises!

Remember when you were just in my tummy and we had never met you? We barely remember this time, sweet girl. It feels as though we have loved you forever.

Happy 1/2 year sissy! We love you to the moon & back.

Momma & Daddy