6 Month Stats

At 6 months old, Eleanor:

• is 27 1/2 inches long (90-95 percentile) and 20 lbs even (above 95 percentile) - I know, I know
  
• eats 8 oz from a bottle at a time, 4 times a day (typically around 6:30, 10:30, 2:30 and 6:30), which is not that much! I don't know why she is so huge.
  
• can sit completely unassisted for as long as she wants and doesn't topple over anymore
• reaches for toys, grabs them with either hand, and can move them from one hand to another
• makes all sorts of squealing, mumbling, laughing and babbling noises, the newest being "mmm hmmm muummuum"
• has started rocking back and forth on her hands and knees and sometimes lunges forward from that position (crawling will be soon!)
• takes two naps (at 9am and 1pm), each lasting about an hour and a half
• has a bedtime routine every night that includes a few songs from Daddy on the guitar, followed by a bath, a bottle, a song by Mommy and rocking for 10 minutes (she gets the song and 10 minutes of rocking before each nap too and usually goes down asleep, but sometimes just goes down drowsy, talks to herself for a minute, and THEN falls asleep)
  
• goes to bed between 6:30 and 7, wakes up between 6 and 6:30