Love, bubs and life on our little farm

Hard to believe but my littlest one is now 6 months old. She is still a trickier bub than Elka - she is my "Princess and the Pea" baby - little things tend to annoy her and induce screaming pretty quickly!

But that said, she has become very smiley and giggly and loves to play and be tickled or twirled around. She still adores Elka and beams adoringly at her - if Elka comes close or talks to her, she squeals in excitement and giggles away.

She is still absolutely amazing in her enthusiasm for food. That is my nice way of saying she behaves like a rabid beast if there is food around! She ripped through cling wrap and got a cupcake to her mouth the other day when I was juggling her, a plate of cupcakes and some bags inside. She screams and tantrums if we don't feed her fast enough (and I mean fast!) and heaven help you if you run out of food! She now eats a finger food course, a savoury course and then a sweet course (ie fruit with rice cereal to help fill her up!) at each meal as well as snacks throughout the day and breastfeeds. She currently loves sucking on watermelon, adores milk arrowroots and steamed brocolli and has started eating meat and yoghurt.

She sleeps 12 hours a night from 6.30pm-6.30am and I no longer dreamfeed her during the night. I love getting my nights back to me for sleep :) She has a couple of decent sleeps a day and a nap or two in there as well. The current hot weather is making her extra sleepy. She has just cut her two bottom teeth so we have had a few restless niights but overall besides endless chewing and drooling she has done really well.

She sits up alone and has very good balance now - she can lean far out to reach toys. She doesn't love tummy time now that she can sit but she is good at pushing her body off the the mat now and occasionaly tries to wiggle to reach toys. She is quite vocal, a lot of yelling, squealing and giggling but no "mum-mum" etc yet.

She has slowed down in weight gain but the paeds today said that that was normal. She is 7.3kgs but he commented that she is quite long. He also commented on her pigmentation - she has a delightful orange hue from all the pumpkin and sweet potato she eats. Elka had the same thing at this age I remember!

She loves to dance and "sing" with her sister to music and she loved going to the Wiggles concert the other day. She yelled and clapped her little arms on her legs and just beamed. Very cute! Her favorite toys are balls and plastic keys. She is also quite taken with dolls at the moment - mainly to gouge their eyes and suck their faces which she then tries to do on real babies when she meets them.

She is no longer completely attached to me - she will happily go to Jase and even lets my Mum hold her now. We have had success with her being babysat and she is taking some formula from a bottle. This is all very promising as I awnt to go back to work in Feb and she needs to start daycare familarisation in January. She is smiling a little at strangers now (still cries at some) and even has started the coy burying her head in my shoulder thing.

She is a very cuddly bub (to me) and I do love our cuddles and giggly play times. I am soaking it up - she is my last bub and I know how fast they grow up!