Kella's 6 months old!

Kella turned 6 months old on Tuesday, November 29th. She's getting so big! Enjoy these photos!

Her new stats are:  weight-18 pounds 1.5 ounces and height-27 1/4 inches.  She's in the 90th percentile for girls her age and hovers near to where her brothers were at about the same age.  As you can see, her new talent is sitting up!  She's pretty good at it and can last a while before rolling onto her side.  She's also working on transferring toys from hand to hand and "retrieving" toys that she's dropped-both good things accoring to our favorite doctor.  She's sleeps pretty well at night-most of the time.  And her nap schedule is becoming clearer every day.  In fact, the last two days, she has taken awesome naps!  That makes for a happier baby and momma!  She's also pretty into her environment.  The doctor was impressed with how she paid attention and said that was probably due to the fact that she has 4 brothers to watch at home.  She loves to be talked to!  You can make her smile by having a conversation with her.  She loves to tool around in her walker and play with toys.  Lots of the toys try to make their way to her mouth.  No teeth yet, but the way she chews sometimes, it should be soon.

I had been putting it off, but last Saturday, we finally fed Kella some rice cereal.  Of course, she took it great.  Probably because she was almost 6 mos old.  I mixed the cereal and Andy got to feed her.  She ate almost all of it.  Poor, starving girlie!

Of course, her "bestie", Ewan, had to have a turn feeding her, too.  He was pretty proud that he got to do it.

I know that Andy was thinking it was silly to take these pictures.  Too bad for him.

In honor of her 6 month birthday, Mother Nature gave us our first measurable snowfall for the season.  It had snowed once before this, but that was just a dusting.  This was a heavy, goopy, snowy mess.  We probably got a couple inches that afternoon and evening.  It all melted away the next day.  I tried to get a shot of some of it.  Maybe you can see it in the bottom left of the photo.  Otherwise, enjoy the view of some of our Christmas lights.  :-)  It should be a fun Christmas for Kella.  She's old enough to have some fun with opening presents and playing with wrapping paper.  Can't wait!