UPDATED!! Catherine Grace, 6 Months Old

I can hardly believe that my sweet Kate is six months old. Where has the time gone? As I am typing this now I am awaiting our afternoon time together while Hannah sleeps. I hardly get one on one time with Kate, and I think she enjoys the extra attention as much as I enjoy giving it to her.

So, what is my 6 monther like? Kate loves to sit up and look around. She wants to be apart of the action and hates being left alone in a room, and yes she will let you know how much she hates being alone. She will roll from her stomach to her back within seconds of being put on her stomach and will roll to her side. She never rolls over to her stomach - and it makes her really mad if you continue to roll her onto her stomach after she has rolled onto her back.

She eats two solid meals a day and loves to eat bananas and peas; she will only tolerate green beans, pears, peaches, carrots and squash if there is some banana mixed in. She will not eat any type of baby cereal at all, even if it is made with breast milk and/or bananas. She nurses 6 times during the day, one time at night and takes a bottle from Jeff in the late evening.
Her favorite toy is Hannah, which is good because Hannah's favorite toy is Kate. She will watch Hannah bounce around from activity to activity and gets so excited when Hannah takes time to talk to her, pat her or give her a toy. Today I entered the room and Hannah said, "Ta-da" pointing to Kate who was laying on her back and had a brush in her mouth compliments of her proud sister. I had to remind myself that Kate will live through childhood despite her sister's loving mistakes. Kate was very happy just to have the extra attention from Hannah.


Kate has never been a good sleeper (much to my dismay!). She has formed a new bad habit of waking at night, snacking and then going back to sleep. Our response: cry it out - AGAIN!! She cried for an hour last night and after much prodding Jeff fed her, The kicker is that she only ate 2 ounces - what a snacker (for those who don't know she drinks 6ish ounces for a meal)! Tonight I will support Jeff is letting her cry longer so that she eats better in one feeding. She takes two good naps a day - a morning nap from 9-11ish and an afternoon nap from 1-3ish (for those who don't know, daytime sleep is totally different from nighttime sleep so even if I cut out a nap or made them shorter it would not improve the nighttime sleep dilemma). Her afternoon nap overlaps with Hannah's (by design) so that I can get a break during my day (which I usually use to clean, prepare dinner, and catch up on my blog/emails/calls).

Kate is a very content baby. She is mellow and hardly cries (except in the middle of the night). She smiles all the time. She is flexible and easy going. She loves to do raspberries all the time. She will turn red in the face from doing raspberries over and over, and Jeff assures me that she will not pass out from her intense raspberry sessions, although I think she must get at least light headed from all the huffing and puffing she does.

We have nicknamed Kate "the Claw" because she loves to reach out for anything that is within arms reach (including drinks, papers, a plate full of food, hair, earrings...). She is also called Catherine, Kate, Kaitlyn, Katie, Cake, Patty Cakes, Sweet Cakes, Baby Girl, Sweet Pea, Sweetie and Gracie. Someone once told me that nicknames are a sign of endearment, and we endear our sweet Catherine Grace!!