Over the last couple of months, Brooke has really started to show us her personality. She is smiling all the time, laughing at us when we make silly faces, and starting to say "mamamama", "mehmeh" and things like "buh". I'm sure to you, that's nothing, but to me it is sooooo neat! She is definitely a talker! The other day she saw an empty bottle, reached for it, and said "meh". Reagan and I were so surprised! Every time we feed her, we say "milk" before giving it to her, so it was kind of like she was trying to say milk! :)
Brooke has also become MOBILE!!! She has started moving all over the place. We used to be able to put her on the carpet to play with her toys, and go to the kitchen to do stuff and she would stay put...now when we put her down, she crawls over to the kitchen to see what we are up to! Her crawl is not the most perfect form at the moment...as my mom likes to call it, it's the "crawl-and-flop"! She will get up on all fours, lunge her arms forward, and then flop down on her belly! She will continue this pattern until she gets to where she wants to go. She is definitely much more active now! Brooke is also getting a lot of use out of her entertainment center. She loves bouncing around in that thing!
At her six month check up, we found out that Brooke has fallen off track with her weight gain. She is currently right around 12 pounds, which puts her in the less than three percentile for her weight. She is very healthy, she is just not gaining weight like she should. At around 5 and a half months we started her on rice cereal and she LOVES it. Dr. Hogarth said to start her on veggies at six months, so we decided to begin with peas...that did NOT go so well. She would gag and stick her tongue out every time we would bring the spoon to her mouth. After only a few bites, all the peas came back up...yuck! I did happen to get a good video (before the peas came back up) of her attempting to eat them. It is pretty funny. There is a link at the bottom for the video, so make sure to check it out. We weren't going to give up that easily on the peas though, so I decided to mix them with cereal the next night. That seemed to taste a lot better to her, because she ended up eating quite a bit of them. We stayed with peas for a week, and she really seems to like them now. She still kind of gags though if she gets a big spoonful of them, but I'm sure I'd do the same if I had to eat those! This week we started giving her green beans, and she is doing much better with these. She will even eat green beans without mixing the cereal in with it, so that's good news. Hopefully these veggies will help to put a little bit of weight on her...
Brooke is a very luck little gal...she is going to have some great friends growing up! My friend Lindsey, the one that has been on bedrest for several months, gave birth to beautiful Josey Marie on February 21st (MY BIRTHDAY!). And another one of my friends is being induced tomorrow! Baby Olivia will be here very soon and we are so excited to meet her. This is her second daughter, so Brooke is going to have lots of little girl friends to play with!
Well, that's about all for now. I still don't quite understand why this website will not allow me to upload my videos, so for now you will have to click on the link to see them. There are two videos on there. One is of Brooke crawling, and the other is of her first attempt at peas. Enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11628512@N02/?saved=1
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