Leah turned six months old this past Thursday. Oh my! Unlike other doctor's appointments, which have been after her "birthday", this latest one was actually ON her "birthday". Despite receiving three shots (two standard vaccinations and a flu vaccine), she did really well. She didn't even cry for the first shot (was it shock?).
Our little one is definitely that... little. She's 24 1/4" long (8%) and 14 lb .03 oz (20%). Thankfully, there's nothing to be concerned about, even though she's dropped several percentiles since her four month check-up. The nurse practitioner agreed that Leah might be smaller because she's so active for her age. (Of course, it could also just be her genes.) Plus, looking at Leah, the NP could see that Leah's certainly not "failing to thrive"; she's got the typical baby rolls! (Yes, I know it'd be easier to show this in a photo, but no, the computer issue STILL isn't resolved. I talked to a DELL tech Thursday, though, and she's sending out some CDs/DVDs so that we can re-load Windows. But I digress....)
Leah's also moving on to new culinary experiences, namely squash. I picked some up yesterday at Wegman's, and cooked it up last night. She LOVES it! I don't think we'll go back to rice cereal (which I'm sure she's grateful for). Leah doesn't eat much rice cereal (I'd fix a teaspoon and even that was too much), but she gobbled down the squash. Today for lunch I could hardly feed it to her fast enough! (By the way, making the baby food was super easy, and in the long run, it'll definitely save us some money.) Once she's had time to adjust to the squash, we'll move on to pears and sweet potatoes. After that, who knows? Green beans? Peas? Carrots? The possibilities are endless!
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