I feel bad…I have totally been slacking on Keira’s monthly updates. Poor second child. She is quite the little monster now! We haven’t gone in for her 9 month visit yet, but at 6 months, she was 18.5 pounds, 27 or so inches…I wouldn’t be surprised if she hits 20 pounds. She’s big…she’s outgrowing her 12 month clothes now. I bought a bunch of really cute Tea Collection rompers for this summer in size 12 months, but they’re too small. MIL is going to cut off the bottom so she can wear them as a t-shirt instead. She is quickly gaining on her big brother, who can not seem to keep a pound on him even though we feed him so much (good) fat.
She never took to purees so I got frustrated and just started giving her solids around 8 months after trying purees for a couple of months. She LOVES solids and is pretty good and “chewing” her food. We gave her big chunks of apples in her mesh feeder and within minutes, she had chomped them into applesauce. So far, we’ve given her bread, pasta, rice, broccoli, potatoes, chicken nuggets, yogurt and various fruits.
She has quite the little attitude and will scream when you take something away from her. She also is fearless and goes after her brother’s toys. They do that tug of war thing with the two of them both screaming at each other. If he tries to take something away from her, she’ll hit his hand or try to swipe it away. hahaha.
She FINALLY rolled at 8 months haha. A little late on that one. But she was sitting up unassisted at 5 months and was scooting around at 6-7 months. She’s not crawling yet, but she’s on all 4′s and she rocks. She does sort of crawl backwards, but no forward motion, much to her frustration (more screaming).
She sleeps in her crib now. We didn’t feel safe having her in bed once she rolled. I miss her at night 
Sometimes I’ll sneak in a nap with her in her future twin bed, which is a day bed, so the other 3 sides are enclosed. She does okay. She still wakes up at night a lot, but in general does okay considering we didn’t really do any sleep training.
She loves cars and trains just like her brother. She’s also starting to figure out her toys. She loves the jumperoo and the play kitchen. I took her to the playground that one single nice day we had a week or so ago. She wasn’t too impressed. Turns out she’s a sand eater, so I had to keep her off the ground the whole time (the entire playground is a huge sand pit).
She can sort of clap…she’ll bring her hands together when we clap and she can do high-5′s. We’re starting to do signing with her. We were surprised to see that Tyler remembered the signs from when he was smaller.
She just got 2 bottom teeth after what seemed like a decade of teething.
Some recent pics…I’m kind of ashamed to say that I didn’t have too many to choose from. Tyler by this point had over 2000 pics.
Her favorite thing:
Her first back carry at 5 months:
Getting ready for some warmer weather (this hat no longer fits 2 months later)
Fun times with some help from Tyler
Yummy
Finally tolerating some tummy time
Exersaucer fun
Crazy hair
We swore we would never do headbands, but when one was gifted to us, we couldn’t resist
