6 months

I can hardly believe it. Half a year has passed since Josie Maria was born. She is 6 months old, doing so many amazing things and adding new skills every day.
She weighs 15 pounds 8 ounces, and is 26 inches long! She is rolling and sitting and scooting herself in circles with her feet. She still has no teeth and no hair, but I am confident those will come with time :-).

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at the Grompe grandparents. Everyone was there: Maria, Carl (and his roomate Napo), Heidi... only missing were Chris and Lucy with twins Evie and Henry, which was too sad! Evie was sick. Dinner was great as always, and it was just fun to be around all of our lovely family members. Josie slept pretty well considering the ruckus.
We are so thankful to have our wonderful baby Josie. We were thinking back to last Thanksgiving, when we announced to the family we had a baby on the way. How far we have come since then! She is such a blessing.

First foods!

Josie was finally able to really eat some food this Thanksgiving weekend, after much anticipation and drooling over just about everything we eat. The first thing we tried was carrots, which she liked. Second was squash, which she LOVED! It was an amazingly positive reaction toward solid food, and by the second try with squash it was obvious she was really swallowing some bites. Here are a couple of pictures of our messy eater, and there is also a video which we will add later.

Sitting!

Josie is sitting up! At least for a minute or two until she looses focus and topples over. A fun toy in front of her to reach for is a good motivator to stay upright.

Portland visit

Here are a couple pictures from my visit to Portland. Josie and I took the train down Wednesday night, and came back Friday. It was fun to see everyone! AS you can see, she wants real foods now! I think we will let her have some at Thanksgiving dinner. And it's only a week and a half away!

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Josie eats her feet

Josie has been really trying to eat her feet for a while now. Mostly it's the big fat diaper that's in her way. So today... we whipped off that diaper and let her at it!

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More monkey photos

Have you ever seen such cute babies (especially the monkey?). In the group shot, from Josie the Monkey counterclockwise: Josephine as Godzilla, Ashlynn the pea in the pod, Mason the Bee, Abe the Lion, Aria the lobster, and baby chick.