Kacie is 6 months old!

Where does the time go? I cannot believe my little princess is already 6 months old! She has just been growing and learning so much the past month. Here are some highlights:

• She still jabbers up a storm.....ALL the time. She is making "mama" and "dada" sounds, but I know she doesn't know what she's saying yet. She is also making a "smacking" sound with her lips.
• She has never taken a passy, but now she LOVES to chew on them. 
• She is scooting, rolling, and semi-crawling all over the place.
• She has started eating oatmeal in the morning, and rice cereal and vegetables at night. She loves sucking on grapes, apples, bananas, and ice cubes in her mesh feeder.
• She is taking 2 naps a day about 1 1/2 hrs each, and sometimes a 30-45 min catnap in the evenings depending on when she wakes up from her afternoon nap.
• Sometimes she "flaps" her arms and it's really funny.
• We have been working on sitting up. She can last a few seconds before she topples over to the side. Many times she won't sit up because she's too busy leaning forward and grabbing her feet!
• She looks up when you call her name. 
• She will grab anything and everything within her reach.
• We finally finished all our size 2 diapers, so now she's exclusively in 3s.
• She still has really chunky little thighs, so some of her onsies are too tight on her legs.
• Her smile just lights up her whole face.
• When she gets excited, she kicks her feet and breathes really fast, almost like "panting."
• She is so entertaining. Jason & I can just sit and watch her talk, play, roll, squeal, and giggle and it makes us laugh so hard.
• She has started actually jumping in the jumparoo. Up until now, she just played with the toys and smiled when we made it bounce, but she hadn't quite figured out how to bounce herself. 

And as always, here are her 6 month pictures....We had a really hard time getting her to smile this time. She either got a super serious look and just stared at the camera, or she wouldn't look at us at all. We were making all kinds of noises and faces, but she just wasn't interested. She also kept grabbing the sign, so I had to move it above her head. As you'll see, that didn't stop her from trying to reach it! (I'm posting alot for memory's sake.)

This is one of the only times she would smile

 Are we done yet?

 Seriously mom, I can still reach it!

 See?

 This one would have been great if she was smiling!

 We finally gave up and propped her up like this

This outfit came with a hat. We had to get at least one picture with it on.

After the "photo shoot," we headed over to my parents' house for dinner. Here is our attempt at a family photo. Once again, Kacie would not smile for the camera!

Here she is getting ready for a walk in her big girl stroller for the first time

We had her 6 month check up and shots yesterday. Kacie is now 16 pounds, 14 oz (EXACTLY double of her birth weight), and 26 1/2 inches. The doctor said she is 50-75% in both. He didn't give an exact number, just the range. Here is my sweet girl with her bandaids (2 shots on each leg),

One last picture of her passed out for a LONG nap when we got home.

We love our little girl so much and cannot believe she is already half a year old! We cannot wait to see her grow and develop more in the coming months!