Charlotte is 6 Months Old

Charlotte had her 6 month birthday on Wednesday! Nathan and I took her to her doctor's appointment last week, and she weighs 17 lbs (75%) and is 25.3 inches long (50%). She is a fat and happy baby! A few weeks ago she started sitting by herself and rolling over. When she's on her tummy, she can make herself turn around, and I scoot forward a little. Crawling isn't too far way!

My only struggle with her is her night time sleep. She used to sleep all night, and I bragged and bragged about her sleeping...but in the last month, she has been waking up several times during the night. I feel like I have a newborn all over again! At first she was just waking up once so I'd feed her and she'd go back to sleep. Then it turned into two feedings in the night. During this last week, she has been up three times! I know I'm partly to blame because as soon as she starts to cry, I rush up to her because I don't want her to wake Nathan up. At least with Charlotte, I can feed her and she goes right back to sleep. Nathan, on the other hand, wants some milk then he wants me to read him a story, then rub his back, and so on...and he knows that I'll give into him too because if I've already gotten Charlotte back to sleep, I don't want him to be loud and wake her up again! I'm so exhausted, and they have both figured out how to get what they want :) So I'm getting them both a noise machine for their rooms so that they will either not wake up in the first place, or not wake up the other one. Plus we're starting baby food with Charlotte...maybe that will help too. Here are some pictures of her...we even had a wardrobe change :) The first dress is one of my baby dresses, and the second is a dress that my mom made her.







I love that she has several one of a kind "designer" dresses from Mama...keep sewing Mom!


And here is proud, big brother Nathan. He really does adore his sister and wants everyone to see her. In fact, every time we go to school, he says to Miss April "Do you want to see my baby sister?" Nathan still wants to be with her constantly. Whenever she cries, he always stops what he's doing and says, "Oh, she needs me Mommy." He is such a little man sometimes and mimics how Wayne and I talk to her. And Nathan LOVES to make her smile and laugh. When Charlotte does laugh at him, he'll say, "Is that so funny little baby? Is that just so funny?" It really is so sweet to see him talk "baby talk" to her!