6 Months Old

It is hard to believe, but Emma turned 6 months old today. We celebrated with Emma's first trip to the mall and lots of time playing together. It is amazing to see how much she is changing. She is such a happy baby and very easy. She is fairly laid back and very animated. She likes to move and is never content staying still...not even to eat. Here are some pictures on her half birthday...we go to the doctor on Monday to see how much she has grown. Here are also some of Emma's changes this month.

Now Emma...

sits up completely alone for long periods of time, lifts the flaps in her books, gives kisses and hugs, reachs for us when she wants to be picked up, eats new foods (carrots), says dadadada and is working on other syllables, responds to her name, feels the touch spots in her books, plays alone with most of her toys and operates them herself, shakes her head in reaction to daddy (or other people), plays at bath time while sitting up, growls all the time, squeals in excitement and drinks water out of her sippy cup and mommy's water bottle and glass.

Emma scrunches up her nose when she is smiling. This is the mid-scrunch shot.

This is the best I could do to show how long she is. She would not stay still long enough to get a good shot.

She is still obsessed with her feet. I could not get her to take them out of her mouth this afternoon. She does suck on her right big toe...completely sucks on it as if it were her thumb. We are still trying to capture that on video.

She continues to have the most precious expressions.

Here she is sitting up.

In this video Emma is giggling. She was on the blanket without a diaper to let her bottom get some air (her diaper rash is flaring up again). She was giggling so hard that Mike and I just laughed with her. Here is just a little bit of that time.