Half a year old

Half a year old .... that's what a woman said to me recently when I told her that Olivia was six months old. Of course, after the initial shock of this moment, I immediately started planning Olivia's first birthday party in my head. But seriously Olivia is six months old and continues to grow like a weed.

At her doctor's appointment earlier this month, she weighed 17 pounds (which seems tiny in comparison to the birth of the 19 pound baby) and measured at 26 inches long. She tends to be larger than her 6 month old counterparts, which Benny is very proud to tell everyone. When I'm only with her at the store, people always comment about how big she is and that her father must be very tall. Yup, that's where her height comes from.



No crawling yet, but lots of wiggling. She rolls over like a champion, but doesn't seem to understand my need for her to sit up on her own. And I bought her a Bumbo chair in the States during my very first visit to Babies R Us as a mother. Luckily we tried it out before flying to Japan. That's when we discovered that Olivia was too big to fit into the grooves of a Bumbo chair. Bummer about the Bumbo.