6 months

Six months and still loves the exersaucer

Cupcakes at the birthday party

I know it's cliche to say how time fast grows but here we are at six months and I can't believe it. I just look at the ultrasound picture at the top of the blog and can't believe we have this amazing little girl in our lives. We are truly blessed. It was around this time last year that we went for our first ultrasound and where they saw the Omphalocele, we didn't find out until a few weeks afterwards. And here she is now at six months. It can teach you to hope. I know things don't always turn out well for these diagnosis but if you are going through this don't give up hoping because they can turn out well.

Ceilidh trying to pet Trouble

But enough reminiscing, yesterday we celebrated with a first birthday for cousin Cam. It's cool to have them six months apart to the day. It gives us a glimpse of all the things to come. Ceilidh is weighing about 14 and a half pounds and she is going for her next set of vaccinations this week. She has been keeping herself busy with swimming lessons with cousin Cam and of course all the other play dates I take her on. She has also been doing a lot of bonding with her kitty Trouble. They both have discovered one another and her face just lights up when she sees the cat. She also loves it when the neighbours dog licks her. She really likes animals I guess.

Ceilidh trying some banana

Her bed time is earlier these days but she wakes up more frequently through out the night, that tooth still hasn't come through all the way and we believe that is the culprit. She is also being adventurous in eating more things and she did manage to swallow some carrot the other day (as the saying goes the proof was in the pudding). Tonight we also gave her some water in a sippy cup not expecting much and were shocked to see how much she really liked it. She still needs help managing the cup but loved the water.  Here we were for a long time trying to get her to take a bottle again with varying degrees of success and the sippy cup went of without a glitch. I should have tried putting breast milk in the sippy cup. But she is at least now taking the occasional bottle and had a night bonding with her daddy while I enjoying a night out with the ladies. I look forward to the next six months.

Drinking water out of the sippy cup