Third Person: Kieks at 6 Months

Kiek-a-boo is already six months old and being generally adorable. She truly is a bouncing baby girl. She's spent the last month trying out all kinds of fancy big 6-month-old things, primarily in the table food category. As parents, Matt and I went into this phase intending to not buy any baby food, and I had to come to terms with myself for not spending the time ricing things that I did for Genevieve. It was really the first time that I've noticed I can't provide the same kind of experience for 3.0 as the first or even second. Luckily Kiera continues to hold the title of Easiest Baby Ever and as such didn't seem to mind even one iota that she wasn't being spoon fed. On the contrary, she did beautifully with pieces of avocado, banana, cooked carrots, shredded chicken, and more. The applesauce and yogurt staples still made their way into her diet but basically we launched right over the sloppy stuff. Good thing too because Thanksgiving was right around the corner and no way was our girl going to miss out on that.

At her six month appointment Kiera was 27" and 16lbs 13oz. She's sleeping beautifully and I think she's trying to trick me into thinking we can do this again. Then I remind myself how the first two slept. Six parenting years later I'm still surprised at how much good can come of a few consecutive hours of sleep.

So here's K at 6 months, along with a bunch of random November fun!

welcome back, mum mums

blow dryer + hairspray = yes

such a snuggler!!

swung by work with mama and clearly hated every second

#maiosisters

after weeks of sprinting away from me at the store i had to resort to back-packing the boy. after i took this picture he screamed in my ear for the next 25 minutes. the butcher offered to loan me a knife. which i know he thought was funny but i was like, HEY NOW, yes he's being a total jackhole but he's MY jackhole.