Quick photo update

Here are a few shots from the past month or so. In case you missed it, Nicole is 6 months old (closer to 6 1/2 now), sits up and is eating cereal and veggies now (she likes carrots more than peas, and who can blame her?). She's such a happy kid, always smiling and laughing and very talkative. She's sleeping through the night, about 8 pm to 6 am. So all in all, things -- and Nicole -- are great.

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Nicole turns a half!

Hard to believe it's been six months already. She's growing up so fast. I intend to get more pictures and possibly VIDEO! on the site soon, so you can see what she's looking and acting like. The main change is that her hair continues to grow in. It's not really long enough to do anything fun with, but it's at least brushable. More hair than me, at least. She's also sitting up, which you've seen some of in pictures, but she's much more stable now.

We just got home from her 6-month checkup. She's sleeping off the effects of her shots. Nicole measured 26 inches (sometimes referred to as 2'2"), which puts her in the 50th percentile and is 2 inches taller than at 4 months. She weighed a whopping 14 pounds, 2 ounces, which is only 20th percentile, but also a 2-pound gain from last time. And she's more than doubled her birth weight, which they say is the goal for 6 months. Her head circumference is 50th percentile, which really only means that she can fit into her Ravens hat for the rest of the season (which, by the looks of it, might be ending in December not February).