can you believe this gorgeous girl is six months old?? i certainly can't!! it was really six months ago that i was in hospital meeting her for the first time. wow. she certainly made sure we knew she was six months old though, between the first tooth cutting on saturday, the first full rollover on sunday - and then on tuesday... she decided to not sleep the whole way through the night for the first time in months. what a shock that was to me!! the day before she was six months, i wake up to a baby babbling away in the dark... ugh 4:15am? i had completely forgotten what you looked like... and to be honest - that you even existed!!! but - it was obviously the sign we needed that miss maddie was ready for some real food. fun fun fun. so on wednesday (the actual six month day) when she woke up at 4:15am again (i thought i had better make sure it wasn't just a fluke that she'd woken up...) miss maddie was treated to her first taste of rice cereal.
she did look a little unsure at first but managed to make her way through the teaspoon i'd mixed up with breastmilk. i must say i was impressed, i wasn't too sure if she'd actually make it through it all. what impressed me the most was the fact that after the initial shock of having something other than mum's milk in her mouth, she actually seemed to be enjoying it, gumming away and then doing a bit of a gulpy swallow. woohoo.
and the biggest surprise? after having that one teaspoon of cereal, at midday - it was enough for her teeny tummy for her to sleep all the way through the night again. amazing. i can't even tell you how happy that made me! :)
all that in just one week?... i feel like my baby is slipping away from me :( she's becoming a real little girl!!
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