6 Month Update

Wow! its been about 6 months since I have updated on here. So much has happened with us. I have updates on myself, and baby Isabella.
everything is going good with the house. Everything is going good with D and I. We had some rough spots while we were trying to get in our groove as new parents, but it's pretty much smooth sailing now.
Isabella has brought so much joy to our lives. I know its cliche but I never thought I could love someone so much. She is hilariously funny, beautiful, so so smart, stubborn (like her daddy, lol), independent, inquisitive, and so sweet, and cuddly. She just turned 6 months officially on July 29th. I still can't believe I have a 6 month old baby! Some of the best advice I have been given was" follow your instincts". this has saved me money, stress, and worry. I have proven to myself over and over again, that I do know what I am doing and that I instinctively know what is best for my daughter.
Stats: 6 months, 3 days
16 pounds 14.5 ounces
27 inches long
head circumference 42.5
She still sleeps in the bed with us. I love snuggling with her but mama has got to get her bed (and her groove) back. lol. So I will be starting to put her to bed in her crib.
She has a pretty good bedtime routine which includes a bath, lotion rub down, and bottle. I want to incorporate reading a story to her at bedtime also.
She is in daycare and loves her teachers. I am working on giving her some playtime when she gets home in the afternoons. So we are either going on a walk, running errands, or going home to play and do tummy time.
feeding: she wants to eat everything! She drinks about 5 ounces of milk every 2 hours. She has also started on baby food. So far I make all her baby food myself. She has eaten sweet potatoes, squash, green beans, carrots, and peaches. She loves sweet potatoes, squash, and peaches. She tolerates carrots. lol. And absolutely hates green beans.  Next up is green peas and we move on to fruit. She eats baby food at daycare and most evenings. Once I start fruit, I'm going to give her some baby food for breakfast also. her pediatrician says that she can start eating meat, but I will buy the baby food for that. I don't think I want to puree meat. lol.
milestones: sitting up, she has graduated to sitting in the big part of the stroller, the high chair at restaurants, and the buggy in stores. I have a high chair cover that we use in restaurants and stores that has toys attached to it. she loves that thing.  She can also rollover from tummy to back, she hasn't quite mastered rolling the other way yet, but she is close. she babbles and talks all day long. She loves playing with her toys and turning them over and over in her hands. she can get up on her hands and knees and rock, but no forward movement yet. she scoots backwards though. No teeth yet, although I think they are coming any day now. I can see the imprint of them in her gums.
Isabella is wearing size 6 or 9 months in onsies and size 9 months in pants, she is on the edge of being in size 12 month pants though. my girl is going to be tall! She's also in size 2 diapers, but once I finish this box, I'm going to mover her up to size 3's.
Its about time to start researching baby proofing and to research convertible car seats.

Everything is going great, trying to decide on when and where we are going to go on our first family vacation. I'm so looking forward to that. Finances are finally getting in order, and we are working on getting miss Izzy in a daycare closer to our house.

Everything is great with me. I'm still working on getting our house organized and purging out old stuff, but its coming along. I cut my hair back into the Mohawk I had when I first went natural. I miss my hair a lot sometimes, but I honestly did not have time to do hair. Now I wish that I had just kept it braided or wore wigs, but oh well. I still love it, it is very much wash-n-go hair. I will grow it back though, I may start growing it around the time Izzy turns one. I will probably do  series of posting about that.
Its weight loss time again. I got to about 200 pounds by the end of my pregnancy, and now I am back to my weight that I was before I started working out. So now its time to get it together. my goal is not really a certain weight, its more to get the look that I want. So I weight about 164 now. I want to start by losing about 24 pounds to get to 140 and then see where I want to go from there. I'm going to give myself until the end of October to get there. I will do another post with my stats and weight loss plan.