Six Months Old

Libby is six months old! I can't believe it! Once the first two months went by the rest seem to have flown. I already wish I had taken more pictures and used the video camera more. Libby can sit up for very short amounts of time. She can pick up just about anything and bring it to her mouth, including Emma's hair. Emma never did that, so we are new at remembering to keep small things away from her. Emma likes to put stickers on Libby but they end up in her mouth, and Emma does not deal well with being told not to put stickers on her sister! Libby eats two or three jars of baby food each day. She gets upset if I try to skip one and give her a bottle instead. She likes her food! She is not on a schedule during the day, she still just takes naps whenever she can, but she needs to be in her bed. If she falls asleep somewhere else, like the floor or her carseat, the nap only lasts 10 or 15 minutes. She wakes up happy, though, and I am thankful I can still take her places whenever I want to. I don't feel restricted by her naptimes. Emma was a different story. We didn't dare interrupt her nap or we would have a cranky monster to deal with. Libby can roll over and generally does not want to be on her belly. She is interested in watching the dog, I mean dogs! Phoebe is still with and I think Libby will miss her when she leaves.
Libby slept through the night last night. The past few weeks I have been letting her fuss during the night. Some nights she doesn't fuss at all, and other nights she'll fuss for 20 minutes. She hasn't woken Emma up yet and Chucky tells me it's mean - but I don't see him jumping up to take care of her. And she's not crying and screaming, she's just fussing. To him there is no difference, but to me those are the three levels of crying! It's working because she has slept through the night several times. Last night she slept from 7:30pm to 7:30am. Usually she's up around 6:30 with a very stinky diaper but today I got to sleep in. It's still dark outside around 7am so Emma has been sleeping in, too. When daylight savings time ends I'm sure we will all be up with the sun.
It has been very interesting to see how different Emma and Libby are. From the time Libby was a month old, I could tell that she was more laid back. People say, oh it's because you're more relaxed the second time around, or just that "it's a second child thing." I really don't think so. Their temperaments are just different. People say boys and girls are so different, but I think it's their temperament, not their sex. I have a friend that has two boys, and her first one is laid back and the second one is crazy busy fussy. It's all just a mystery, and a miracle.
We have a sleeping, grinning cutie pie of a baby girl. We are so blessed.

Here are some pictures I took of the girls together. You can see as time progresses, they are less interested in the camera and more interested in . . . well . . . anything other than the camera.