This adorable little girl has grown up so much in the last 6 months! Baby Kate is officially gone, and toddler Kate has arrived. Here's a little about Kate at 6 months:
- Talking like crazy! About 3 months ago, her speech took off, starting with her love for animal sounds. Now she says tons of words and even some short sentences.
- Her favorite animal sound is the kitty. One of her favorite things to do is to wrap a blanket around her shoulders and pretend to be a cat. Her little meow is adorable.
- HATES having her diaper or her clothes changed. It is a crazy wrestling match every time.
- Finally sleeping through the night. I weaned her at about 14 months, hoping that once she stopped nursing, she would stop wanting to be awake for 3 hours stretches every night. No such luck. We finally managed to get her sleeping through the night in the last couple of months, and it has been amazing.
- Our craziest toddler! She is into everything all the time. She loves to push chairs around and see what she can get into up on the counters, especially if it involves splashing in the sink or pouring water on the floor. She keeps me on my toes.
- Wants to be involved in everything the big kids are doing, much to their dismay.
- She may be crazy, but she gives amazing hugs and snuggles, especially if you will read books with her, which is her favorite thing ever. Some favorites right now include Tails, Hug, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Where's Spot?. She will sit by herself and look at books for an hour sometimes.
- No sense of fear. She climbs up the ladder on the play structure and goes down by herself all the time. She also insists on walking down stairs like a grown-up. This baby makes her mommy crazy.
- She still only has two top and two bottom teeth in the front, which makes her look like an adorable little mouse. Her little grin is adorable, but watch out for those teeth! If you get your fingers too close when feeding her something, she bites, and it hurts!
- She loves to watch kid songs videos on the tv, and her favorite is The Happy Song. She requests it by name at least 50 times a day. It is just so hard to turn down that little face when she looks at you and says "happy song?". It has parts with high voices and low voices, and she loves to imitate it. It is adorable. She even wants Happy for her bedtime song.
- Favorite foods include chicken nuggets (she is very enthusiastic about her nuggets!), frozen blueberries, and chocolate peanut butter banana smoothies (her first word almost every morning is smoothie (or, as she would say, "frootie")).
- Loves Mommy, but is starting to discover that Daddy is the fun one (the popular opinion around our house).
- She is so happy that we are done quarantining from Grandma and Grandpa!
She loves Peek-a-boo!
She is getting the cutest curls as her hair grows out!
We just love our Kate! This is my favorite age for my babies, as you see them developing and learning so fast and becoming such individual little people. I love getting to be Kate's mom!
