Six Months

Lucy turned 6 months old on the 17th!  I feel like just in the past two weeks she has become such a big girl.  She weighs 19 lbs 10 oz (above 95th %), and is 26 in tall (a little above average).  She is eating rice cereal and oatmeal, and has tried a few vegetables in the past couple of weeks.  She is really still adjusting to the taste of everything though and doesn't particularly like any of it.  She is SO CLOSE to crawling.  She can go backwards and in circles, and can scoot forward a little bit.  She is so determined and focused and gets frustrated when she can't go forward.  I think another week and she will have it down.  She is sitting up, though usually when I sit her up on the floor she quickly gets back down on her belly to try and crawl. 

She still isn't sleeping great.  She will have a week where she will sleep through the night every night.  But then she will have a week where she will wake up 2 times during the night.  Right now I am attributing that to her two bottom teeth that I think are going to pop through at any moment.  Another reason she has been waking up is this:

 

 

Eczema.  Ugh, it is so awful.  Shelby and Joey may have had just a slight problem with dry skin...I really can't remember.  Obviously never anything like this or I would remember it.  This is horrible.  It covers her back and tummy.  She has scratched her head so much that it is scabby and gross and we have to put Neosporin on it to make sure it doesn't get infected.  Her dr. gave us a prescription last Thursday and I had been slathering that on her, but it just wasn't helping.  So he gave us a steroid cream to try and are hoping it will help relieve some of her discomfort.  I've also been trying coconut oil on her, which makes her smell delicious.

 

Aside from that, she really is a happy baby.  She loves laughing at her sisters and playing with her toys.  She has gotten better about letting people hold her, which is good for me because she is heavy!  She gave up her pacifier a few months ago.  I was really surprised she actually took one to begin with since Shelby and Joey never did.  Like her sisters, she really doesn't have any real comfort item, though she does prefer my raggedy, 31 yr old baby blanket over all the others.  She will sleep with the others, but I find that if I use my blanket she will fall asleep much faster.

 

We just love Lucy and can't believe how quickly she is growing!