6 months

Adelyn is 6 months old.  The sweetie is still such a happy baby who just loves being with people.  She is very easy going and pleasant.

This has been a big month for her!  She began rolling over and now she just rolls and rolls everywhere.  It is really cute.  Occasionally she will get stuck in an awkward position but for the most part she is able to maneuver her little body on her own.  She isn't quite sitting up on her own yet but I don't think that is too far away.  She can balance for a few seconds on her own.

She also started to eat solids!  She had her first bite of rice cereal on May 17.  She wasn't a fan.  We waited a few days and then started again.  Now she gets sweet potato in her rice cereal for dinner every night.  She loves to play with the spoon and if I get it aimed at her mouth, she will put it in herself.  She makes the cutest, most confused faces when she eats cereal!

Another huge change: she is being weaned from breastfeeding to bottles.  We are doing this really slowly but it is going well.  The first week we gave her one bottle a day and she screamed her head off.  She was not.a.fan.  Josh kept working with her and now she takes a bottle well--- even from me.  This week we added in a second bottle, so she has 3 nursing sessions and 2 bottles every day.

She sleeps from about 9 p.m. until 7:30 or 8 a.m.  During the day she has one or two naps-- but not really at the same time everyday.  It is wild how much I have changed when it comes to scheduling.  It is mostly out of necessity-- having a 2-year-old to entertain doesn't lend itself to the most structure!  But I am glad she is still sleeping well at night.

She makes adorable sounds and has the sweetest smile.  When she is really focusing on something she puts both her arms out to the side and moves them quickly-- sort of like she is flying! ha!  She makes a sound that sounds like a high pitched, "HHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIII" quite often.

Adelyn loves her brother.  When he comes near she immediately starts laughing and cooing.  It is sweet to see so much love between the two of them.  Hunter loves to play with her and is still learning what she is able and not able to do.  I am glad he likes having her around.

So fun to have her little smiles and sweetness around here!

BTW: I have been taking LOTS of pictures, but I have no space on my computer to upload them.  I have got to edit some of the millions of pictures I have and then I will add her 6 months pictures to this post.

As for my postpartum recovery, I feel like I am almost completely back to myself.  This recovery has taken much longer than Hunter's did.  I think my incision healed faster this time but my hormones did not balance out as quickly as they did with Hunter.  It has been a little bit of an emotional roller coaster for me!  But just in the past week or so I have felt my body start to even out & I am feeling really good!  Hooray!