Thankful

Here is my slightly late Thanksgiving post! Our Thanksgiving week was wonderful! I'm so thankful for the extra family time I got this week because the number one thing I'm thankful for this year is the people in my life. Especially these two:

I'm thankful for my husband. I can't even describe how much I love him. He is more amazing with Lucille than I ever could imagine. He knows just when to surprise me with flowers. He is easygoing when I don't know how to be. His desire to learn is inspiring.

I'm thankful for my baby girl. She's teaching me about life and love and patience. She is the best baby. She is sleeping so good in her big girl crib at grandma and grandpa's house this week. She is learning and growing so fast; it is exciting to watch her explore the world. Michael and I have so much love for her, it almost hurts.

Here is the family on Thanksgiving day:

Baby girl got to share some new "firsts" with her grandparent. She started reaching with both hands towards us when she wanted to be picked up. So cute! She rode in a shopping cart for the first time and loved it. On Thanksgiving day she went from laying down on the ground to sitting up all on her own, and now a couple days later, she's already a pro at it. This kid is amazing. They also got to watch her experience solid foods for the first time. Her favorite food so far has been butternut squash and her least favorite was definitely banana.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

The Sixth Month

The little lady is half a year old now. It is hard to believe that it has been six whole months since she has joined our family. We had some family pictures/ Lucille's six month pictures done over the weekend. We have a few sneak peeks and they're turning out pretty cute!

See baby girl's new teeth? She got them nine days apart earlier this month. :)

We're staying at grandma and grandpa's house for Thanksgiving break this week. So they're catching up on their Lucille time.

In other exciting news, since Lucille is six months old now we're introducing her to solids. She has been exclusively breastfed her whole little life and she isn't so sure about real food yet. She hasn't actually eaten anything that we've given her, but she is tasting it and playing with it. We're doing baby led feeding (also know as baby led weaning - but I'm not weaning her - you can read more about the method here.)

She has tried avocado, apple, and banana so far.

Her first taste! The experience became pretty messy shortly after this.

She is getting pretty spoiled at grandma and grandpa's house. I think she is averaging one new toy a day here. Ha.

She also got to meet Miss Katy yesterday, who made her this beautiful new quilt:

I can't get over how lovely it is!

What does six month old Lucille enjoy?

Smashing food

Feeding the dogs things they shouldn't have (avocado)

Throwing toys

Sitting up like a big girl

Teething (Just kidding - teething is not fun.)

Sleeping most of the night in her crib

Cuddling with mommy and daddy

Playing with Grrrma and Grrrpa

Riding in the car

Crawling backwards (forward it too much work)

Teething

Lucille has a tooth! It popped up out of nowhere.

 

We didn't even know she was actively teething! I guess we just figured that teething would be a  miserable/ fussy time for the little lady... but she has been acting pretty normal. Maybe we won't be so lucky later, only time will tell.

 

We brushed her tooth tonight.

 

 

I think she liked it. She mostly just wanted to lick the toothbrush. :)