(former) Americans in Geneva: Katherine is 6 months old!

Man, I am so slow blogging these days. It will be time to mark her 7 months before long... We've been super busy with life in general so you have to excuse me. I will also keep it brief but hopefully it will satisfy everyone.

Katherine turned 6 months old on August 19th and I am just astounded that we've had this precious little girl around for half a year already!

Stats:
Weight: 8.02kg (17.6 lb) 90%
Height: 68.5cm (27 in) 90%
Head circumference: 43.5cm (17.1in) 75%

She is a big baby! But still really well proportioned.

Eating:
Still eating every 3 hours during the day. We're sticking to the 7, 10, 1, 4, 7pm schedule with bedtime right after the 7pm feeding.
She started on solids just before turning 6 months and she did really well with carrots (her first official solid). I let her lick an apple and gave her tiny bits of banana off my finger before and she was really interested in those so we knew she was ready. Here is her first carrot experience.

Sleeping:
Nightime is still a breeze. Naps - same ole same ole... Typically 1 hour. If I'm lucky I get a 2 hour nap once a day. I've accepted the fact that she is just not a long nap taker. But as long as she sleeps all night I can live with it.

Milestones:
I call this month the month of milestones.
While we were in the US (after she turned 5 months) she started first grabbing her feet, and then within a couple of days, rolling over from back to belly. She wants to do it all the time now! She does that when she is reaching for toys and then gets stuck on her belly. She will play like that for a while and then start whining and crying because she can't get back.... hilarious!
She is also starting to pull up her knees while on her belly which look like a beginning of a crawl! Too cool!

She started "talking"! It must have been from observing us talking to so many people while we were visiting in the US. At first she was just opening and closing her mouth like a fish... it looked slightly retarded.... And then one day she added sound to it and broke out in a perfect and loud BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA!!! Oh it was awesome!! Since then she keeps going on bla bla bla, wah wah wah.... (not the whiney kind... the speaky kind). I love it! And if you respond the same way, she will talk back to you and you can go on having a little conversation with her. Too cool!

And finally: her first tooth came in! CJ found it completely by accident while we were on our Glacier Express trip. We were sitting at our hotel in St. Moritz and she was chomping on his hands and all of a sudden he says, wait what is that hard thing in there.... IT'S A TOOTH!! Her bottom left incisor made its debut. She had absolutely no symptoms, no fever no crying or fussing. She's been drooling and chewing on everything like crazy for at least a month so we did not even consider that to be a sign... Really cool. She won't let you look in her mouth to inspect it though... haha...

I still can't get over the fact that we've been parents for over 6 months now. This little girl is a real blessing. She squeals and laughs all the time and rarely fusses. I love her so much I can't stand it. We are lucky to have her in our lives.

And here are some pictures from the month...

We had a cookout with friends and here are some of them with their babies.
From left: Claire with Catherine (6 weeks older than Katherine), Kali with Emalyn (18 months), me with Katherine, and Bethany with Angie's little boy - John.