Josie - 6 Months

Here are the statistics from Josie's 6 month Doctors Appointment.

Height: 26 in = 53%ile
Weight: 15 lbs 15 oz = 50%ile
Head: 44.2 cm = 88%ile

The girl still has a big head! :-) And she's growing big and strong and beautiful. Josie is sure smiling and laughing a lot lately. She is really doing well sitting on her own! She's not talking a whole bunch yet...mostly she just likes to grunt or scream, but that's okay-we'll take it! I can only imagine that in a couple years we won't be able to get this little girl to shut up.

I love making Josie laugh...I think she is so smart because she will play peak-a-boo with mommy. When I have Josie on her stomach, she'll put her head down so her eyes are in her blanket...and then she'll lift her head up and I say, "Ahh...peak-a-boo" and she'll smile and giggle and then put her head back into the blanket so we can do it all over again. This can go on for several minutes and it's so fun.

Josie is also learning rhythm. The other day Josie was throwing a full-blown tantrum...complete with kicking her feet on the floor mats. I actually had to laugh...yes, she's kicked her feet before, but this time it was like she was fully aware that she wasn't simply flailing her feet in frustration. No, she was intentionally kicking to make a loud noise to indicate how upset she was.

Later that night, she was laying on the ground...the TV was on in the background and a comercial with some music came on. I started dancing above her and making her giggle. Before I knew it she was actually kicking her feet to the beat of the music. I couldn't believe it! The music stopped for a moment while the commercial spoke about whatever it was that it was trying to promote and Josie stopped kicking. The music came back at the end of the commercial...and sure enough Josie started kicking again to the beat of the music. Yup, we might have a dancer on her hands. It wouldn't surprise me, though, the Andersons have great dancing genes.

Josie's smile and laugh make me so so happy. I love her more than the sun and the moon and the stars!