The little missy is already 6 months old (next week)! She had her doctor's appointment yesterday and weighed in at 18 lbs 1 once, and is now 27 inches long. She is still in the 90th percentile for her age--in other words she is the size of an average 9 month old. :) The doctor says that she will hopefully grow out of spitting up and her eczema by the time she's a year old, but since Caitlin doesn't care (and keeps growing!), it's no big deal. She's a happy, social, BIG baby. :)
She is still working on teething although there aren't any cutting through quite yet. She is getting very good at putting things in her month and chewing on them, including her fingers, her toys, her parents' fingers, and mommy's hair. She is an industrious thumb sucker but is still working on closing her fingers into a fist while she's doing it. Her nose gets in the way, so it sometimes appears that she'd like us to live long and prosper. :)
She is very, very good at rolling from front to back and back to front. One of her favorite activities at daycare is rolling across the room so that she is in front of the door to the kitchen so she can wait for the teacher to come out--she must know that's where the food is kept. :) She is so good at moving herself that she will be moving to the next class in the daycare, even though she's a little younger than the other kids in that class.
She is also getting pretty good at sitting up by herself. She still has not gotten the hang of pulling herself into a sitting position, but will balance herself unless she gets too excited and pushes herself backwards. She gets excited a lot, but falling backwards is lots of fun too. :)
And of the utmost excitement, she has started getting up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth. She is not crawling quite yet, but we expect it to happen any day now. Every time we put her down, she rolls over onto her belly and gets up on all fours so she can practice rocking some more. Most of the time she laughs about it, but occasionally she whines about not being able to move herself.
Yesterday there was a picnic at her daycare and we were able to meet some of the parents of the other babies in her class(es). It was a lot of fun, and Caitlin got to try sitting in grass for the first time. She wasn't totally sure she liked it, it must have been itchier than carpeting, but she did enjoy trying to pick the grass.
We have uploaded some new pictures to the website:
This is a photo that I had on my phone; it's on Facebook, but just in case you didn't get to see it (you may have to copy the address and paste it into the address bar of your browser window):
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31074403&l=3a10ecf7ac&id=70002174
Also, here are the photos from the fourth of July:
We are still having trouble getting videos posting on this site, so I am looking at some other websites to use for Caitlin's updates.
