aug, 6th - 6 months....

"Conversation in Italy is personal. Italians are interested in you, your family, and children. Especially children - so you can fish out those snapshots of the bambini without feeling gauche or provincial."

Fodor's Modern Guides. Italy 1957.

day 175:

6 months old today! so...the 6 month round-up....

Dimensions & Weight:

Lenth - 67cms 
(now requires two people to measure a very wriggly baby...bring on the standing-against-a-wall-with-a-ruler years)

Foot Length - 9.8cms (no change)

Hand Length - 8cms (no change) 

Ear Length - 4.5cms 

(which hasn't changed in 4 months now..so just goes to show that ears don't grow very fast)

Hair - growing...yay!!! still strawberry blonde.

Weight - still haven't weighed her...but you know, she looks healthy.

This Month's Likes & Dislikes:

Likes -

• scooting around on the floor without actually crawling
• rolling and rolling and rolling....still
• playing in the park with her yoga-buddies (day 159)

• sitting...with some dramatic face-planting....(soft surfaces still critical)
• swimming and especially splashing (day 161)
• sleeping with her hands behind her head....sunbathing style

• soprano singing....very, very...very high pitched...still
• blowing rasberries....still
• bouncing...boing...boing....boing in her door bouncer (day 168)
• eating toes...still
• her cousins sheika and ethan...they make her belly-laugh

• saying mamamaamamamamammmmmamam...now to brainwash her with dada too
• unusual pureed food combinations....pomegranate + plum + guava or spinach+ parsnip + basil or melon + avocado...and alfresco dining

• violent forms of affection...hair pulling, nose grabbing, nail raking, eye poking.....still
• grass between the fingers

Dislikes -

• baby porridge (day 164)
• peas
• loud sneezes
• not being able to crawl....very frustrating
• the italian baby formula equivalent...not quite the same

p.s. since this is the big half a year....i will also post a parent-progress-report when i get back to london next week.