HAPPY HALF BIRTHDAY!!!

Guess who's 6 months old today?!?!

At the Dr.'s we found out she is now 26.14" tall, weighs 20.46 lbs. and has a head circumfrence of 16.81"! (In other words, she's a little fatty-mcfat-fat. Heehee. But the Dr. said don't worry or change anything yet. We'll just watch her stats for a while and see if things even out, and if not, then we'll make some adjustments to her eating habits.)

While we were there she had to get her third round of vaccinations, along with her first flu shot - which we'll have to repeat in 4 weeks since this is her first time ever receiving it. So, she had to get 4 shots, 2 in each leg. SHE DIDN'T EVEN CRY when she got the first one...just glared at the tech. and sucked harder on her sucker. But then she let loose on the other three. Poor thing. She was so brave though! I know females my age that still cry at shots - my 6 month old can beat your 20-something at taking shots! HA! =)

And even more exciting than that!!? She signed to me for the first time today!!! We've been signing to her various things for about a month now. They say it usually takes 2 months or so to catch on and babies don't usually start signing until 7-8 months. What do they know!

She was sitting in her high chair keeping me company while I was having dinner, and she started signing. (It turned out to be the sign for "milk", but she was looking at her fingers in frustration, like she couldn't get them to do what she wanted them to. To her credit, "milk" is sort of similar to "diaper", and "diaper" is a pretty hard sign for fingers without much individual deterity to them yet.) So I picked her up to put her in her playpen, but was a little baffled about her signing, since she'd just finished nursing and eating - milk and rice cereal!!! (Yes, we hit that milestone and I didn't blog about it. Very busy here these days, sorry. =) Low and behold, what do I see all over her back but a big blow-out poop!! Usually I'm a little bummed when I see one of those, but then it hit me what she was trying to sign and I was never so excited to change a diaper! =) When I set her down on the changing table she started signing some more, looking at her fingers in frustration again. So I signed back the sign for diaper and her face just light up. I was beaming.

My baby girl told me something today. How cool is that... xoxox