6 Months

Eliza turned 6 months old on October 2nd and guess whose now sitting up for short periods of time all by herself.  My little E!  She's so funny.  I think she thinks it's a game to sit up and tip over because every time she begins to tip she giggles.  It's pretty cute.  So I tried to get a cute picture of her in her newly acquired pose. 

This girl is attached to that thumb.  I'm amazed I have any pictures of her without her thumb in her mouth because it's in there 99% of the time.  It is so cute though and she's such a good baby because she can self soothe.  It drives Neil crazy thinking about the braces in the future but all the kids will most likely get braces anyway so that part doesn't bother me.  The part I hate is thinking of her being 8 and still sucking it but for now at 6 months it sure is so cute.

 Almost smiling

 Instead of my thumb I'm going to now chew on this toy.

 Oh I missed my thumb.  Back in it goes.

 Oh well actually this toy isn't so bad.

 Finally got a cute one.  Boy do I think she is the cutest thing ever! 

 

Five days into bottle feeding and she is loving it.  Hurray!  Her teeth and nursing is not going so well so I'm giving myself a break and pumping and she is doing so good.  I tried some baby cereal today and she still wouldn't swallow it but at least she didn't gag this time.  That's progress.

 

We got together with some of the Hibberts yesterday after Conference and it was nice to sit and talk about everyone's favorite talks.  I really liked Elder Scott's talk on the Atonement.  When we got home Neil had to go to a meeting and so with it only being 9 o'clock I was so happy to just go to bed myself.  I hate going to bed without him but sometimes it's nice when he's gone because I end up staying up just because he's up and vice versa.  I woke up at 2 am and he was not in bed.  He had been up all night going through his journals and planning.