6 months

Look who's 6 months old! (yesterday)

We had our 6 month check up this morning, and her official stats are:

14lbs 7 ounces. 25 percentile
26 inches tall. 90 percentile.
Long and lean!

And happy, as evidenced by this picture with Snoopy.

Our 6 month check up was uneventful (unless you count the ridiculous number of vaccines eventful). Papillon was given a clean bill of health. The doctor was not worried that she was not rolling over; in his mind she just doesn't feel she has any place to go and she is totally sitting up, so she is fine.

The doctor did all kinds of tricks and dances for Papillon in an attempts to get her to react (gotta test those social skills!) but Papillon pulled out her best stoic face and was 100% unphased by everything he did. She wouldn't even take the toys that he offered her. The doctor told me that if ever he took up stand up comedy, Papillon was not allowed in the audience; she is a tough crowd.

Her right tear duct is still clogged, he is still not worried about that. Hopefully it will clear up soon so we don't have to have surgery to open it up. That would be unfun; but then again, all these eye goopies are also unfun.


At 6 months, Papillon....

....goes to bed between 730pm and 8pm and gets up around 7:30am. And no more midnight snacks!! That's right, Papillon is officially a 12-hours-through-the-night-sleeper! After Christmas we decided it was time to start encouraging less midnight snacks, so I fed her when she work up a first time at night, but we started to let her self-soothe if she got up a 2nd time. She took to it quite well, for about a week she would wake up that 2nd time and fuss for a bit (the longest was maybe 20 minutes, and it was never really hard-core crying, just sad fussing). Then, without any prompting from us, she suddenly cut out both midnight snacks! Last Tuesday night, she made small sounds at midnight, but before I could get up to feed her, she fell back to sleep, and I didn't hear from her again until 7:45am! And so far, no relapses! I loved our midnight snuggle times, and will cherish all 6 months of them forever, but a full nights rest is also wonderful!

....takes 3 naps. She is still a short napper. But, we've made it work, and at this point, if she does nap for a long time, it tends to mess up my schedule! Haha.


...sucks her thumb. Like whoa. All the time. She loves it. I think its adorable. And the thumb sucking and the 11-12 hour nights kind of happened at the same time, so, in case there is a correlation, I am not going to mess with the thumb sucking for now.

...eats every 3-5 hours. Still 100% nursing, since the few mouthfuls of "solids" we have tried to give her have definitely not gotten anywhere close to her stomach.

....wears mostly 3-6 month clothes, though starting to do more and more 6-9 months.

...is a bundle of fun. She loves her toys, loves to sit up like all the time. Likes to touch peoples faces, and wants to play with whatever you are holding. The camera, for example...

6 months, also a super fun age.