How do you get Houdini in 6 months?

We cannot believe that half of a year has already came and gone!  In just a blink of an eye everything has changed soooo quickly!  We just had our 6 month wellness visit and little girl weighs 15 lbs 8 oz and measures 27 inches long.  Her height measures in the 75th percentile and weight just shy of the 50th percentile.  Last month our scale said 16 lbs, so either our scale is wrong or the introduction of vegetables has not been as successful as the fruit.  We've only tried carrots and sweet peas, but if only I had a picture of that face when we first tried them.  We've been trying out the eating with a spoon philosphy, but we often resort to the feeder to calm us both down!  We also started trying out the sippy cup and that turned out better than the spoon ;o)  We've tried Vanilla waffers, ice cream and many other little bites off mommy & daddy's (mostly daddy's) plate at dinner time.  But that's not all that is new; Madelyn has all sort of new tricks that seemed to happen in a matter of two weeks!  It was insane how quickly things started happening.

Magic trick #1......One morning mommy takes her into the bedroom to change her diaper after we finished breakfast.  Remember how active she was in the belly, well nothing has changed once born.  Since the little girl is so active, we can't change our diaper or clothes on the changing table.  Nope, no sir!  Not happening at all.  Instead, we have to change her in her crib.  So mommy lays her down in the crib and pivots (didn't even turn) to the left to grab a diaper and wipe and when returning what do I see????  Magic trick #1; Madelyn just sitting there looking at me!  Prior to this she would lean on a hip and one arm, but this was fully sitting up straight.  I didn't even get to see her do it!  As a result we had to lower the bed a notch.  Which was a lot of work by the way.....but wait!  It gets even better!

Magic trick #2......Mommy was so excited for her to be able to sit up and play together without her falling over, but instead I already have her running away from me.  The little girl just wants to go!!  In less than one week, daddy was changing her in her crib when she suddenly did a few inches of crawling trying to get away from the dreaded clothes changing monster!  I couldn't believe it when I got the text while at work late in a staff meeting.  Sure enough, the following day as we were hanging out on our play matt she started moving all over the place.  Although a little uncoordinated, she was really starting to figure the whole crawling thing out.  Before the next week rolled around, she had finally figured all the mechanics out.   I picked this video because it reminds me of Bambi just starting to figure out how to use the limbs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfxWqsm0B1k

Magic trick #3.....Daddy lays on the floor while we play and Madelyn likes to crawl over to him and either smacks her hand on his chest, trys to pull out his leg hair or seems determined to pull his nose off  :o)  While he was laying there on his side one night, she suddenly started trying to pull up on him.  We seriously had only had the bed lowered for about two weeks and already we needed to lower it again.  But since it's so much work, we talked ourselved into believing that it was just a fluke and we had time.  Sike!  Again one morning while little girl was playing in her crib, I walked into her room and said hello and then proceeded to pick out her clothes from the closet.  I turn around and she's pulling up on the crib!  Guess more work was the only option we really had.  After the unveiling of magic trick #3, we had to lower the crib.....again......in about two weeks!!!

The best magic trick of all.....is the little personality that seems to have bloosomed late.  Last weekend she just started laughing at everything.  Everything is funny!  Funny when she sneezes, funny when daddy sneezes, funny when the puppies shake, funny just looking at her!  It has been really cute and fun for us!  When she laughs we laugh too, so I'm sure we sound like a bunch of crazies.  Although we do seem to be less stressed  :o) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SyWMSBgyos

Lastly, I just had to share a picture from her first play date with Miss Evie!  Miss Evie is two weeks older but they don't look a day apart.  It was so neat to watch them interact with each other :o)