Babbling

Kate talks!! She didn't talk and then, as of about 6 p.m. last night, she found her consonants. We were in the bathroom getting Molly ready for bed when Kate just blurted out "Dadadadada" and then a whole bunch of other stuff that sounded like words. So funny. One minute it's all "ahhhh, ahhh? ahhhha." and the next it's "Blawp bat dadadada." It's so weird to hear a real human-like voice coming out of this little critter who didn't have one before.

Kate had her 6-month check-up yesterday. All is well. She was very friendly with Dr. G and cried more about getting strapped into her car seat to leave than about the shots.

We've had three nights now of much better sleep. She's skipped the 10/11 p.m. waking for two nights now. One night she went 10 hours without eating! (Though not without waking). Last night I got two four-hour chunks of sleep. Ahhhhh!!! Excellent. I think I'm done messing with her sleep schedule now for a little while. I'm just going to keep doing the 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. feedings and consider it a compromise.

I finally got a picture of this:

She does that pre-crawl rocking on her hands and knees now, and occasionally throws a knee forward. Not yet, baby. I have way more chores (ok, and Internet surfing) to do without a curious little critter wandering over with curious little fingers. She's so happy now to sit on the floor and examine objects. She gets bored with familiar toys, though. That's why at the end of the day the living room floor is cluttered with every baby toy we own plus half the kitchen utensils. :)