3/4 of a year ALREADY!!

{FROM STELLA'S PERSPECTIVE}

I'm such a big girl these days!  Mommy and Daddy can't believe how much I've grown and changed over the last few months!  I just experienced my very first Christmas (and first SNOW)..more on that later:)

I have officially mastered crawling and quickly moved onto to bigger things! {no more army crawl--truly up on all fours and FAST}  I love pulling up on any and everything that I can get my hands on.  Despite lots of new toys I still love the entertainment center--I enjoy looking at myself in the glass, pulling on the knobs and pulling up on the table.  I'm not sure why Mommy and Daddy have put these things on the doors that keep me from opening them!  I also enjoy racing across the kitchen floor to the table.  I use the chairs to climb up too.  I often play with the picture frames on the end tables too.  I really like seeing Grandmoma and Grandaddy:)  I can easily go from laying/crawling to sitting and have even figured out how to transition from standing to crawling.  My favorite game is Peek-A-Boo!

Every aspect of my day has become more and more entertaining!  I'm starting to enjoy bath time more-splashing around and playing with all my toys and bath books.  I still love books, but don't really have a favorite.  I really like it when Mommy and Daddy sing to me and I often try to sing along! I'm being to get the hang of this eating thing and get so excited when its time to try new things.  I'm currently eating cereal with apples (or other fruit) in the morning and 2 servings of veggies at night.  I've also tried yogurt recently and liked it!  My favorites still are butternut squash and apples YUMMY!  I love that Mommy makes all my food too:)

I'm all over the place in clothes.  Mommy's having a hard time keeping track:)  I'm wearing anything from 6-12mos, 9 mos or 12 months.  I wear a size 3 diaper.  I've been trying new brands/styles of diapers too.  My favorite (Mommy's fave) is the Huggies Pure and Natural BUT I seem to leak now that I'm on the move so much.  Next favorite would be Huggies Little Snugglers but they don't make them in my size and I'm not a fan of the Little Movers.  So we've been testing out Pampers.  Still haven't found a favorite.  All the ones for moving seem so thin and uncomfortable!

I'm still such a good little sleeper.  Sometimes on the weekends I like to take a 3 hour nap too!  I go to bed between 7-730pm and wake up on my own around 7.  I have been known to sleep til 8 or 9--I think Mommy & Daddy enjoy that too much:)  I'm standing up in my crib now so it's been lowered for some time now.  From time to time I've fallen asleep cuddled up to my crib bumper {Oh so cute with her arm up on it or with her head laying on it}

Official stats from TODAY's checkup: WEIGHT 18 lbs, 13.5 ounces (50th percentile)  

HEIGHT 27 inches (50-75th percentile)

Happy Baby at her check-up