Abigael is 6 months old

Thats right, our little baby girl is now 6 months old and how she has grown in that time. Abigael is a beautiful somewhat emotional little girl who loves to watch her brother and put anything she can get hold of into her mouth. Although she looks just like Daniel, in many ways she is his complete opposite. She is a Mummy's girl to the point that only Mummy can hold her or look at her. Where as Daniel loves to spend time with people and be away from Mummy, Abigael will scream with other people if Mummy is not around. She is alot more aware of her hands then Daniel was, she is able to take hold of things and put them into her mouth without hitting herself in the face. She loves to listen to music and one of her favourite songs is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star which her Daddy sings to her to calm her down.

As well as turning 6 months today, the other big milestone in her life is that she started eating solid foods today. Like Daniel I waited until this point so that I could miss out the soft baby food and go straight onto 'adult' food and let me tell you - she loved the toast that she got today. She loved putting it into her mouth and sucking it until she could swallow the little soft bits. She was not too keen on the yogurt however that was because she could not use the spoon herself. I am hoping that eating solid foods might help her sleep better (wishful thinking) as she is still getting up twice a night.

I am very excited about the next 6 months which should include crawling, walking and chasing big brother. I am also excited about her hair growing and getting thicker so that I can put little girly things in it.

Abigael is one lucky sister......

...... to have a brother like Daniel. Daniel has adored his little sister from the moment he met her. He spends half of his day kissing her and hugging her (sometimes he does confuse hugging with laying on) and the rest of the day he wants to make sure that she is either near him or at least knows where she is. Babby (his version of Abby) is one of his favourite words to say and he gets upset if she is crying and will come and find me to stop her crying.

So all I can say is you are very lucky Abby to have such a good brother and good luck to any boy who hurts her feelings or worse - wants to date her.

Daniel thought that Abigael would like to play with his sword.

Hair

As most of you know, when Daniel was a baby his hair stopped people in the street. He had and still does have beautiful hair. So when I got pregnant with Abigael, people started making fun of me saying how funny it would be if Abigael had no hair when she was born. Well I am very pleased to say that Abigael was born with a full head of hair and amazingly she has even more then Daniel had. The following pictures show that even though Abigael is only 5 months old, she is able to have a ponytail.

Luke and I are divided about Daniel's hair because I love having his hair long and messy however Luke likes it short and neat. Well Luke has been asking me to take Daniel for a haircut but I have been putting it off because I like it. However today I found out that Daniel really does needs a haircut.

Here's looking at you

Daily Routines

Last night Luke and I were talking and laughing about Abigael's and Daniel's daily 'routine' and we thought that it would be funny to share it with you.

Daniel's Routine

7am - wake up and first word out of mouth is Eats (he then goes on to eat between 2 and 3 Oatabixs). The minute he has finished eating the next word out of his mouth is Cars (he wants to watch the movie called Cars.

9am - Eats again which normally consists of eating either Mummy or Daddy's breakfast depending on who has the best (normally Daddy as his breakfast bar contains chocolate)

1pm - Wake up from nap and again Eats and while he is eating he believes that he should be watching Cars.

4pm - Eats and he will see if maybe Mummy will put Cars on again just in case he missed something the last time he watched it.

6:30pm - Dinner time which means Daniel picking at his food while Mummy and Daddy encourage him to eat.

7:00pm - Clean up after dinner and Daniel yells Dance and we all run into the kitchen, put the radio on and dance like crazy people.

7:30pm - Bath time (Daniel wants to put all bath products on his hair and Abigael tries to drown herself.

8:00pm - Bed time and again we here the famous words Eats (however this time he really wants a drink) and Cars (wants Daddy to name all the characters in the poster on his wall).

Abigael's routine

Daytime - Either eat from Mummy or sit happily with Mummy. Someone else tries to either hold her or look at her - Scream loudly until Mummy takes her back then happily smiles.

Nightime - Up every three hours to eat and I think drive her Mummy crazy.