Anyway I'm back! I have like a million unpublished blog posts that I've been doing and a child who's finally started napping properly again!
Right, so Liv is now 6 months old (well just over) and my Lord she is such a madame! Liv can now sit unaided for long periods of time although she thinks that its hilarious to throw herself backwards. She is also in the first stages of crawling (it more like an army crawl) but she can get herself from one side of the living room right across into the kitchen on the other side of down stairs in about 5 minutes! (Little update from me writing this this morning, Olivia has mastered proper crawling this afternoon, wahoo!). She's now pretty much completely in 6-9 month clothes and has started growing out of some of her little shoes!
I have also introduced Olivia to fingers foods this month. I started off by giving her one of those net things that you can put fruit in... I'm really not sure what they're called but they're brilliant. We then moved on to me giving her a banana to hold and feed herself (absolute disaster) and now the past week or so I've given her toast which she loves, sandwiches, grated cheese, chunks of cucumber and some of the finger foods from the brand Organix.
Liv has now gotten to a new low with her sleeping and will literally wake up every hour in the night, sometimes even more and just lay screaming until I go into her. Extremely exhausting and frustrating for the both of us so I caved and have had her in my bed with me when I've had enough. Something I was so adamant I'd never do but it's funny what exhaustion can do to you. She goes off to sleep in her cot extremely easily, all I have to do is give her some milk and lay her down and she's fast asleep but then within half an hour she's back wide awake and this cycle will literally continue all night! 9 times out of 10 she will refuse to take a dummy and the only thing that will settle her is my boobs which I am now really wishing were detachable so I could at least have a bath in peace! I'm still planning on breast feeding until 12 months though and no amount of sleepless nights will put me off of that.
We've also this month bought Liv a bath seat which I am definitely recommending to any parent who's child can sit up! Bath time is so unbelievably easy and I can give her a long bath without getting any back ache!
Her favourite things this month are any of her musical books, her little vtech laptop, blowing raspberries, cucumber, trying to grab my phone and knocking all my photo frames and candles off of my TV stand. Her least favourite things are potatoe, being left in her jumperoo when no one else is in the room, waking up in her bed alone and having anything put in her mouth that she hasn't physically put in there... And I think that's about it for our 6 month update!
