The Treadway Chronicles: Avery turns 6 Months Old!

Little Miss Avery turned 6 months old on October 10th. She continues to be growing well and is still the sweetest little girl I know.

At her 6 month appointment, she was 17 pounds 15 ounces, which placed her in the 75th percentile. Of course this came after a scary bout of Salmonella poisoning, where she lost over a pound from 7 days straight of diarrhea, so she is probably back into the higher percentiles now. We'll see at 9 months. She was also 27 inches long, which put her in the 90th percentile. Her head was 17 inches, which is the 50th percentile. Overall, she's growing right on track and is still a big girl. She is wearing 9 month clothes mostly, but wears some 12 month items too.

Avery has really started to ramp up her baby food eating. She has already tried carrots, peas, green beans, sweet potato, yellow squash, zucchini, pumpkin, avocado, bananas, apple, pear, plum, peaches, rice cereal and oatmeal cereal. I have been making her baby food. I wasn't sure if I'd have time to do this with her, but I really find that it's worth the time it takes to make the food, because it's cheaper, I can give her more variety than you can find at the grocery store, it can be organic, and it's actually easier to store. I can store 24 servings of food in the freezer, versus 24 jars of baby food.

She is also still nursing about 7 times a day. She eats plenty let's just say. Ha! I guess that's why she's a big girl. What can I say, she's a hungry hippo.

Her sleeping has not improved very much. She still sometimes wakes up twice in the night and her napping is totally inconsistent. Sometimes she wakes up from a nap after 40 minutes even though she hadn't slept in over 3 hours. Let's just say, she's a work in progress when it comes to sleeping.

Her temperament is still super sweet despite her lack of sleep. She is very smiley and happy. Sometimes she is also just really mellow too. She'll just sit happily chewing on toys or looking around in my arms.

Speaking of chewing, while she does not spit up hardly at all, she does drool a ton. She chews on everything in site. The chewing is leading to something though. She just got her third tooth and her fourth is almost through. Instead of her top two, which I was expecting, she got the two beside her bottom two, so she'll have four teeth on the bottom soon.

Now that she can sit up better, you've got to watch out, because she will reach as far as she can or lunge for anything nearby. I don't think she's about to crawl, but I think she wishes she could get moving and chase her brother's toys. She can move a little though, because she can roll front to back a few times and there have been a few times where she's rolled right off her play gym or a blanket I've laid out. It's kind of funny.

Now enjoy a few pictures of our little girl who is already half a year old. Man time is flying!

Look at me sitting up like a big girl.

Whoops, I'm not quite stable sitting up just yet.

Back on my buns and happy as a clam.

Hello!

I also like laying on my back and chewing on my toes.

Happy baby!

Yes, I can smile even bigger.

Looking strong on her tummy. Will we be crawling in a few months? I think so.

Baby blue eyes with a silly pony tail.

Avery checking out Maizey. Of course Maizey is a very sweet dog to both Connor and Avery.

Here is a funny picture of all of us playing with super hero masks. As you can tell, Connor made the one I'm wearing. It is supposed to be the Hulk, but I'm not sure the Hulk has feathers and pom poms on his face. Hee hee.