Blana Babies: 6 Months

post written by Blake

The kiddos turned 6 months old his week! So it's time for a blog summarizing the last 3 months of development. Here it goes.

Eating - the kids starting eating baby food. Pears, peaches, prunes, peas, red and green soup, bananas, carrots, squash, apples, sweet potatoes, chocolate (more on that later), avocado. Ethan likes to grab the spoon and feed himself. Most of the time he grabs the part with the food on it, and then rubs the food everywhere. Kaylee likes to regurgitate the food onto her bib, and then suck on her bib.
Running - the kiddos have started to go for runs in a jogging stroller. Today, we took them to a 5K around Greenlake. Also, they've started twice-weekly runs with dad in the morning before work.
Laughing. Ethan likes to laugh when thrown (gently) into the air, Kaylee laughs when tickled (especially by mom).
Sitting - Ethan sits on his own for moderate periods of time. Eventually he tips himself over. Kaylee has sat on her own too, but only a few times.
Rolling over - both babies have rolled a few times from their tummies onto their backs. Ethan doesn't really like to be on his tummy because his head is giant. :D
Traveling - The babies flew on a plane to California in December, and drove to Portland in January.
Both babies have started to pass objects from from one of their hands to the other. the doc says this is the thing to do at this age. who knew?
Sleeping - Kaylee frequently sleeps for 8 hour stretches at night. Ethan is more of a 6 hour sleeper, but we're working on that. Both babies sleep in their cribs.
Screaming and yelling - Sometimes the kids will scream with joy, very intensely. Sometimes they scream to each other back and forth. Sometimes at night when Ethan is fussing, Kaylee will wake up and scream at Ethan; we imagine she is saying, "shut up and go to sleep!"
Kaylee